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The website is a hot mess, mostly bc its layout is strangely "off"; its text requires just a little horizontal scrolling to reach the end of many lines. I'll never understand the lengths people go to to break the standard default rendering of text on the web. There might be good ideas here but the mobile presentation is ~unusable.

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I want to provide a counter perspective, which is that I am very happy with way in which the website deconstructs the book into short "articles".

What I mean is that I think this website (at least from my perspective) has a successful, novel approach to representing books on the web.

I don't mean to discount your point. UX issues are very serious and can ruin an otherwise carefully presented work. My point is that despite these issues, I am impressed by the creator's approach to the website.

It renders as individual pages for me. An article (as in one html page) per chapter would probably be easier to read. Now they've forced constraints onto it that makes sense for paper but not a website

Seriously. Just using plain HTML would have resulted in readable text lines. All the web designer had to do was: “not do whatever he deliberately did that made it worse.”

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