Scrine – Joyscroll books. Read any book one sentence at a time(scrine.io)
7 pointsby michaelginsburg6 hours ago6 comments
  • GavinMcG5 hours ago
    This isn’t a substantive criticism, but one aimed at helping adoption: the word “scrine” does not feel remotely joyful to me. It seems like a combination of “scream” and “whine.” It feels sharp, in the bobo vs. kiki sense. I imagine I will be impaled on the tines of a scrine.
    • michaelginsburg5 hours ago
      Haha, thank you. A scrine is an old word for a box where scrolls got kept, so scroll + shrine. But yes, said out loud it does sound like something with teeth.
  • gumby4 hours ago
    This seems like the very opposite of reading. How can you understand anything when your context is interrupted after a sentence or two? Flow is impossible.

    Even a page flip is less disruptive than scrolling because it doesn’t use the same part of the brain.

    A wall of text is much easier to read than something broken up because you can stay in flow.

  • xxr4 hours ago
    > Walls of text are why books pile up unread.

    Source on this? Is there research on this, or is this meant to be obvious and intuitive?

  • Guestmodinfo5 hours ago
    This might bring young boys and girls to read books. Thanks. Atleast they can start reading some lines
  • loopmonster4 hours ago
    Is this real? This feels like a parody of a product aimed at a straw man generation so addicted to tiktok that they can't possibly read anything longer than a few words at a time.
    • frostinessan hour ago
      As someone who is a member of this generation and has been using a similar utility I AI generated, yeah it helps a lot. The most consequential advantage for me has been it preventing me from getting into a loop of losing concentration during a long and obtuse/boring paragraph and then having to start back at the beginning of the paragraph again.

      In the past getting through that loop came at the cost of comprehension because I would read the words just to get through the paragraph without entertaining any side thoughts, but now I can safely process a sentence, think about it, and return when I'm ready without losing my place. It's frankly been my favorite way to read books lately.

    • michaelginsburg4 hours ago
      Fair, thank you. It’s meant to meet people where they are. The swipe habit and fried attention already exist, so this puts a book in that format to help someone start reading on their own and find self guided learning entertaining. There’s a normal page view if the swipe is not needed. I’d say reading one or two lines at a time is better than most tiktok feeds.
  • michaelginsburg6 hours ago
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