Text-only books aren't going to immediately disappear, of course, but many of them can be enhanced on devices like the iPad. What will drive plain old books out of the marketplace is not multimedia ...

There are a couple of catches with Ulysses I want to mention up front: First, it’s only available for Apple devices (Mac/iOS). Second, it’s pricey: $44.99 for the Mac app (though you can check ...

We are pleased to welcome back Berkman Klein Fellow alumnus, Dennis Tenen, who joins us to discuss his new book, Plain Text: The Poetics of Computation (Stanford UP, 2017). This book challenges the ...

An important way to provide greater cognitive accessibility is to use “Plain Language” writing. Here is an example of an original text, followed by a Plain Language version: ...

Because it is plain text, CriticMarkup is application-agnostic: you can use the syntax in TextEdit and send a marked up file to someone else. However, to fully take advantage of CriticMarkup, Gabe and ...