9 comments

  • GavinMcG an hour ago

    This isn’t a substantive criticism, but one aimed at helping adoption: the word “scrine” does not feel remotely joyful to me. It seems like a combination of “scream” and “whine.” It feels sharp, in the bobo vs. kiki sense. I imagine I will be impaled on the tines of a scrine.

    • michaelginsburg 38 minutes ago

      Haha, thank you. A scrine is an old word for a box where scrolls got kept, so scroll + shrine. But yes, said out loud it does sound like something with teeth.

  • xxr 16 minutes ago

    > Walls of text are why books pile up unread.

    Source on this? Is there research on this, or is this meant to be obvious and intuitive?

  • Guestmodinfo an hour ago

    This might bring young boys and girls to read books. Thanks. Atleast they can start reading some lines

  • michaelginsburg 2 hours ago

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  • loopmonster 33 minutes ago

    Is this real? This feels like a parody of a product aimed at a straw man generation so addicted to tiktok that they can't possibly read anything longer than a few words at a time.

    • michaelginsburg 20 minutes ago

      Fair, thank you. It’s meant to meet people where they are. The swipe habit and fried attention already exist, so this puts a book in that format to help someone start reading on their own and find self guided learning entertaining. There’s a normal page view if the swipe is not needed. I’d say reading one or two lines at a time is better than most tiktok feeds.