(2011-03-06) Nelson Possiplex Autobio

Ted Nelson has brought out Possi Plex, his Auto Biography.

Hmm, only $10 for EBook vs $30 for Printed Book, but his idiosyncratic layout style means I bet the EBook will be PDF that won't be convertible to EPub

May10: Mark Bernstein gives some background. Ugh, I bought it (EBook). But this cracks me up: Though Nelson calls this volume an autobiography, it might be better to view it as a guide to his papers. Those papers, scattered in warehouses across the country, are voluminous, for Nelson was an inveterate taker of notes. He took notes in conferences, he took notes during coffee breaks. No discussion at dinner was too casual to memorialize, no late-night beer was unaccompanied by pen and clipboard. In later years, Nelson’s tape recorder and video camera supplemented the record, and an interview with Nelson meant two tape recorders on the table: one for the reporter and one for Nelson’s files. This legendary trove of notes is so unwieldy that Nelson himself has not used it in composing this volume... (LifeBox)