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What are different book formats good at?

Part 2, of the Series: “What is a ‘book’ in the age of the web?”

May 19, 2022

Definition of PUBLISH as it appears in Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary, published in 1755.

May 19, 2022

What is a “book” in the age of the web? (Part 1 of 5)

Can the ‘book’ remain relevant?

Dec 15, 2021

What is a “book” in the age of the web? (Part 1 of 5)

Dec 15, 2021

The Question Concerning Education Technology

2020–21: What a year

Jun 16, 2021

The Question Concerning Education Technology

Jun 16, 2021

Why #socialdistancing is life or death (Quebec version)

(I haven’t written anything here in a long while, I guess the apocalypse is as good a time as any to get back at it.)

Mar 20, 2020

Mar 20, 2020

A short story

It’s not very long! Sorry!

Dec 1, 2017

Dec 1, 2017

What books can learn from the Web / What the Web can learn from books

This is the text of a talk I gave at the WWW2016 conference, on a panel with Tzviya Siegman (of Wiley & co-chair of the W3C’s Digital…

Apr 21, 2016

What books can learn from the Web / What the Web can learn from books

Apr 21, 2016

Can Open Textbooks Help Save the Open Web?

How a new approach to educational materials can learn from the web; and how the web can learn from the book.

Feb 3, 2016

Can Open Textbooks Help Save the Open Web?

Feb 3, 2016

Why can’t we read anymore?

Or, Can books save us from what digital does to our brains?

Apr 22, 2015

Why can’t we read anymore?

Apr 22, 2015

Hugh McGuire

Hugh McGuire

books and/on the web: reb.us, pressbooks.com, librivox.org, iambik.com, and a few other bits & bobs.

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