Here is Hugh’s verse example.
- The Roadworks Ahead
- As I stated before, we will always debate:
- the quality of the paper, the pixel density of the display;
- the cloth used on covers, the interface for highlighting;
- location by page, location by paragraph.
- This is not what matters. Surface is secondary.
- The ditch-digging,
- the setting of steel,
- the pouring of concrete for the foundation of the future book.
- This is what requires our efforts.
- Clearly defined scope of these systems,
- clearly defined open protocols.
- These are what require our discussion.
- Tools with simple, quiet, clean, interfaces
- organically surfacing our changing relationship with text.
- These are what we need to build.
- All of these efforts combined, these systems integrated,
- these tools made well and deliberately.
- This is the future book,
- our platform for post-artifact books and publishing.
- Hugh McGuire