i think it would be pretty reasonable to expect that such a project would be able to find funding... a replacement for kindle, built on nostr... with a local mini pc deployment possibility for semi-offline use that also can put highlights and annotations back upstream to share with other bookstr and biblestr relays
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Yeah, sounds like a bigger project, but something very fundamental that is great for eBooks and eMagazines.
Might be worth an nostr:npub10pensatlcfwktnvjjw2dtem38n6rvw8g6fv73h84cuacxn4c28eqyfn34f grant or something.
i hope it happens... it's such a clear use case for nostr... books, documentation, would go nice alongside the git repo systems, they could become standard help text systems for web and other apps
Agree. This is Nostr Core Development, IMO, like Blossom and Cashu.
i've got a new paid gig coming up soon, probably 3-4 months, and i'm reworking my nostr library and relay code, as a child i was always a library dweller and i think i could put together enough of a starting point once i'm finished with my next 4 months to dig into this library idea
the search indexing thing really implies an integrated relay/dvm/html/epub/pdf renderer stack to do this properly, and imagine piling on top of that a physical on demand book printing service that lets you do one-off hardcopy in a decent quality, i mean, like the Apocalypse of Yajnvavalkya level of quality, cheap but adequate, but all automatically rendered into a book
maybe that's a bit ambitious to add that one on top of the stack but piece by piece we could give Amazon a fit anyway
I think peak nostr-educational resource will happen when we combine modular articles with external/specialized functionality. ereader functionality is a must, but this goes soooo much further.
Ereader/book/blog functionality*