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phil
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Welcome @tristan-daylight! Tristan is the head of marketing at Daylight Computer. Along with Drew, they'll be answering questions from /books readers over the next hour or so. Daylight is building a new device, designed for deep work Reply with your questions (please make sure to tag him)
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Zenigame
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Thanks for coming @tristan-daylight! When you were designing the the Daylight, what did the process of designing for reading books look like? Would love to hear about the kinds of tests you guys did, any interesting discoveries, inspiration, etc.
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Drew Winget
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On the technical side, we had a deadly strong desire to finally make PDFs usable on a tablet. Our screen goes up to 120hz for a reason, and no existing PDF renderer could adequately support fast and fluid zoom, pan, and inking without jank. So we wrote our own from scratch. Now it performa better than desktop software on a new M3 laptop.
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Drew Winget
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So those were some technical pre-requisites we spent a lot of care to get right. Looking into the future of reading, we proceed mostly by phenomenology. Everyone who contributes to the reader has extremely strong and mature opinions about how their kind of reading works, and we build the primitives to support that. As an example, a very unsupported form of reading by all current software is deep reading of non-linear content like textbooks and academic papers. The screen and software of the kindle and remarkable make it exceedingly difficult to navigate a table of contents in a fluid manner. You cannot explore and map the work in your mind, but are instead forced to peck and teleport into random parts of a book, or know ahead of time what you're looking for. Scanning a text at multiple levels if depth is a fundamental workflow of paper reading, often called "reading in layers," and we try to keep this in mind as we evolve the software. For more on this, have a look at Mortimer Adler.
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