A VISION

For the APPLE VISION PRO GOGGLES

A VIRTUAL LIBRARY

BOOKS (but also music, movies, videos, photographs, landscapes, experiences)

I have a book of “10,001 songs you must hear”.    That should link to the actual music.

THE BOOK LIBRARY

Like a public library.   Could be free.   Could have a free section.  Could be subscription to access, for all the books.   Or could charge for each book.    Maybe kids books, for example, could be $5/month, or something.   Or, you could subscribe to a genre.  Or subscribe to the Bestsellers.  Maybe an author would like to sell access to his or her full oeuvre.  I have a list of the TOP 100 kids books.   I have a booklet of OPL (Oakland Public Library) Teen Reading List (50 books, in fiction/horror/mystery/urban fiction/non-fiction).   I have Bill Gates’ recommended reading list.  I have 501 “Must-Read Books".   I have a title index and author index to “1,001 Books you must read before you die.”  I have the List of Newbery Medal award winners.  I have almost all the trivia (no joke).   These could all be easily accessible on a VL.

The LIBRARY I envision would allow you to navigate “shelves” and “pull” books off of them.

You can change the print size, highlight words in books for dictionary definition, and maybe even switch between audiobook and reading, if you like.   You could even switch languages.

You could place different languages of the same work side by side, for instructional use.  You could wear your goggles in an actual library, to select virtual versions for your headset.  You can highlight text, to paste and save, or for translation, or for specific words to link to a definition or Wikipedia article, say.  

You could search a subject.  An author.  A genre.  A year.  An award.   A list (like Gates’).   Reference, which you could easily compare/contrast with Wikipedia, say.   Trivia.   You can intersperse your reading with audio queries of Siri or typed/audio Google queries.    A scientist or researcher might have a different set-up than a newbie.   You could select levels of complexity and specificity.

You could arrange your own virtual library in any way you like.

Could you even search something like FICTION for themes?  Like Love?

One could certainly search for keywords, across as big a database as the tech or budget will allow.  

Artificial Intelligences should link up to the source reading material from which they draw.   For example, if there is a LAW AI that I query, for example, on “what should I know about a dog getting in a fight at a dog park?”  I should be able to read the laws themselves, or any precedent, etc.  in addition to the general knowledge answer,  rules-of-thumb, lawyer response.  

These are my thoughts.

I would love to work for Apple.    Maybe from home.   I am not an engineer.

But “I have a dream”.    Free library of all the world’s books, available to everywhere (internet), in a truly easy, accessible format,  that allows for both entertainment and learning.