“Obviously the vast majority of my OB content can’t go into the book, because there’s so much of it.”
I know this is not what you asked for, but I’d like to vote for a long book. I feel that the kind of people who will be interested by it (and readers of OB) probably won’t be intimidated by the page count, and I know that I’d really like to have a polished paper copy of most of the OB material for future reference. The web just isn’t quite the same.
In short: Something that is Godel, Escher, Bach-like in lenght probably wouldn’t be a problem, though maybe there are other good reasons to keep it shorter other than “there is too much material”.
“Obviously the vast majority of my OB content can’t go into the book, because there’s so much of it.”
I know this is not what you asked for, but I’d like to vote for a long book. I feel that the kind of people who will be interested by it (and readers of OB) probably won’t be intimidated by the page count, and I know that I’d really like to have a polished paper copy of most of the OB material for future reference. The web just isn’t quite the same.
In short: Something that is Godel, Escher, Bach-like in lenght probably wouldn’t be a problem, though maybe there are other good reasons to keep it shorter other than “there is too much material”.