How can you improve the state of eBooks?

  • Read voraciously and on every device within reach.
  • Take copious notes on the device.
  • Take copious notes about the device.
  • Take your eBooks on adventures.
  • Read while traveling.
  • On trains, in planes, on the backs of elephants, by the beach.
  • What about the experience delights?
  • And, to a lesser degree, what annoys? (But try to focus on delight.)
  • Do not feel compelled to scale your map 1:1 with print.
  • Write.
  • Consider how you write.
  • Get a typewriter and write on that. [1]
  • Now try writing the same thing on a computer.
  • Now get a wonderful pen and write longhand.
  • Wax on. Wax off. As it were.
  • Try to publish something, anything with a traditional publisher.
  • Publish on a blog for a while.
  • Think about those processes.

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