Oddbean

books on nostr: Highlights can reference sentences or paragraphs. Highlights and pages can be shared to social feeds. Pages and highlights can be quote reposted, zapped and liked. Nostr could enable a new way to consume “open” books via nostr ereaders.

yes. Imagine u possess a physical book, which shows a QR code on every page. You scan it, and you see all the highlights and zaps and comments for that particular piece of text, and u can share your thoughts instantly, then close the app and get back on paper.

Somebody mentioned the idea of putting the bible on Nostr with a list of events, one for each verse. Maybe nostr:nprofile1qqsf03c2gsmx5ef4c9zmxvlew04gdh7u94afnknp33qvv3c94kvwxgspr3mhxue69uhksmmyd33x7epwvdhhyctrd3jjuar0dak8xtcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhszxnhwden5te0wpuhyctdd9jzuenfv96x5ctx9e3k7mf0ss9zgs?

I reached out to a handful of calligraphers to re-make the bitcoin white-paper and the prices were outrageous, just bought more Bitcoin instead. But it woulda been a cool art piece to have. LOTR style scrolls of the white paper. Maybe when bitcoin moons.

Just a nostr native way to interact with the Bible with a few extra affordances that nostr can provide. - organize and allow for meandering through a catalogue for background context - engage in focused discussion on a specific segment of content - group together & compare different versions & perspectives of the same topic

These all seem like UX things, not so much nostr things. I mean, I see how you could do it on nostr, but for example NIP 32 would allow you to anchor your discussion in particular verses/translations without having to host the whole thing on relays

The problem we're trying to fix is that ctrl-f can only take you so far. Linear text, while conventional isn't the best way to organize and navigate knowledge. Sure, tacked on UX can help add functionality, but the data structure has an implication with its usage. By standardizing a data structure, any good UX is just pulling out functionality afforded by the structure instead of imposing functionality via UX. You interact at the level most meaningful for your task. You don't need bricks to analyze the architecture of a house or paint a wall, but if you want herringbone tiling for your kitchen you'll have to work at the level of tiles. Modular articles provide that level of grouping and introspection as an option, emphasis on option. What pieces of existing libraries have you needed to use for your current client and why? What are they in service for, and how do they compose together to form your library? Are there other ideas that already exist that this implementation points toward, say in math and computer science? You point directly to the pieces of text involved in the synthesis of new knowledge, or you can just use the existing content verbatim as another note in your collage of notes. Having these interactions on nostr allow for anyone to follow the trail of ideas that have been traversed and learn the same ideas for themselves. Something like that can't be afforded by a change in UX alone.

Working on it with out knowledge base and ebook reader Alexandria. Everything you know regarding interacting with nostr notes, but "sections" or chapters are their own notes that compose into modular articles, also semantically searchable through embeddings. https://wikifreedia.xyz/nkbip-01/npub1wqfzz2p880wq0tumuae9lfwyhs8uz35xd0kr34zrvrwyh3kvrzuskcqsyn https://wikifreedia.xyz/nkbip-02/npub1m3xdppkd0njmrqe2ma8a6ys39zvgp5k8u22mev8xsnqp4nh80srqhqa5sf https://gitworkshop.dev/r/naddr1qq9yzmr90pskuerjd9ssz9rhwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjmczyr7jprhgeregx7q2j4fgjmjgy0xfm34l63pqvwyf2acsd9q0mynuzqcyqqq80xg9h3fj2

nostr:nprofile1qqsr9cvzwc652r4m83d86ykplrnm9dg5gwdvzzn8ameanlvut35wy3gpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3qamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kuegpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqcu9929 has another note about it but see the link: https://geminiprotocol.net/

I actually send them some sats to support their project here: https://geyser.fund/project/gitcitadel as they won't choose to apply for a grant from OpenSats for example. They are not only building the Alexandria project, but other neat stuff too.

Alexandria is the viewer, and books are the first application, but the real magic is in the new kinds that allow for event combinatorics and embeddings. We've been trying out some crazy sci-fi stuff. 😂 It'll be fun.