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rel: Future Camera Process Spliced Book - Alternative Reading Methods
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I hate this accelerated/cursory reading method, but I am playing with the idea.
Woody Allen solved that problem by taking a speed-reading course and then reading War and Peace in one sitting. “It was about Russia,” he said afterward.
Read only summaries of things. Maximize the extraction of information and speed. I’m trying to imagine a world (new book form) I would hate, where all reading was just interfacing with impressions that resolve. No infinite digressions, but just extractions and concise necessary parts. No reading complete books.
Maybe like this.
You get a book. It starts with a summary (the traditional store-bought form a book access, where you read the blurb on the back and look at the cover and decide. Only one level of summarization.). Maybe there are adjacencies to other summaries on a macro level, like related books.
This future reading comes at different levels of magnification. You’re provided with options to summarize the book, then you dip into the pages and they expand to summaries of the chapters, and the pages and the paragraphs (or maybe using some kind of semantic tokenization that makes more sense, such as scenes or concepts).
Reading is more like swimming underwater into a cave, your two hands push through the water like a breaststroke and further details emerge. The page summaries resolve to paragraphs, should you dive deeper. And then the sentences.
This can happen at two levels: one option it unfolds and you read the new summary (so you’ll be repeating parts, as summary falls for detail if desired), or the other where what you’ve read so far is taken into account and only new segments are “resolved.”
Each level is more indicative of the original next, and rely on less automatic summarization.
The fully resolved book, is the original book as written. Some readers resolve to bits of detail (no more room to magnify any more) mixed with summary sections.
It’s conceptually a bit similar to headings that start in a default collapsed state and reading is a matter of opening them.
Page Summary
Paragraph 1 Summary
sentence summary
actual words of the book.