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iamphilsharp · on Dec 31, 2012

Holy moly...great thoughts! Thanks for the feedback jgj.

Most people I've talked to about this in the past few hours have more than two pillows. Turns out I'm the only sucker with not enough pillows :).

iamphilsharp · on Dec 31, 2012

Thank you for the detailed thoughts. That's exactly the kind of feedback I was looking for. I appreciate you taking the time to help :).

iamphilsharp · on Aug 25, 2012

That's what I was thinking too. Not quite sure how to make it happen automatically yet...so far this was very manual.

What do you think of being able to send an email somewhere...and then a little bit later the book is added automatically?

marquis · on Aug 25, 2012

You might need some kind of browser extension that reads your Media Library, I can't find any other way of automating it at the moment.

iamphilsharp · on Aug 25, 2012

Uh oh. Thanks for letting me know. I'll add that to the list of "Things to fix if people actually like this idea" :)

iamphilsharp · on Aug 25, 2012

This isn't available for others to try yet. Before I put a lot of work into the idea I wanted to see if anyone else found it worthwhile.

I read a lot of books these days, but for the most part they're digital. Because of that, they're not staring at me on a bookshelf and I find myself forgetting what I've read. Most importantly, I find myself forgetting the memories attached to those books.

Before e-books, I'd have physical copies that would remind me of specific moments in my life. It was nice to see a few books and think, "Oh yeah, that was when I lived in San Francisco and met my girlfriend," or "oh yeah, that book reminds me of my family back in Southern California."

I wanted to get that feeling back. The feeling of being able to look through my past...but by using books. I put this together as something quick and easy to make me happy.

In fact, all the code can be found here: http://tympanus.net/codrops/2011/12/05/lateral-on-scroll-sli.... If folks are interested in the idea then please let me know and I'll see about making something that we all can use.

This is just my way of showing the quick idea :).

iamphilsharp · on July 30, 2012

I'm very excited by this, but also VERY skeptical. I was using Codecademy for months to learn Javascript, HTML and CSS but recently stopped because the course quality was getting very poor. It seems like they spent a lot of time developing the first 1-2 months of lessons, and then started winging it from there.

freehunter · on July 31, 2012

I have to agree there. I got to a certain point and quit because I had to go to the help forums for each question. There are certain problems that only accept one solution even though there are multiple paths. For example, the isOdd and !isEven problem. I wrote down isEven and !isOdd, but it would only accept the opposite of that. Same result, but only one gets you a passing grade.

I thought I left the guessing what the teacher was looking for behind when I finished college philosophy.

zds · on July 30, 2012

we hope you'll give the python courses a shot - they're edited and should be great to learn from.