Daring Fireball ‘POOR CHARLIE’S ALMANACK’ (AND THE TRAGIC STATE OF E-BOOKS)

With the e-book editions — Kindle, Kobo, Apple Books, whatever — you can merely read these books. With the web editions, you experience them.

Earlier in the iPads lifetime, magazine publishers experimented with digital editions of magazines that had animations, flourishes, interactions and beautiful design. WIRED especially… I loved them.

Then they all just….stopped 🤷‍♂️

I’d love to have an e-book standard that allows for this sort of beautiful design. For now I’ll be reading both these books in….a web browser I guess?