My pathways are not available as e-books.
This is not a formatting limitation, a publishing delay, or a feature request I am tracking. It's a commitment.
Much like Thoreau insisting on growing his own beans when easier meals were available, or Benedict hand-copying texts when faster methods surely tempted, these pathways were built for a particular kind of encounter: a physical page, a pencil in hand, a reason to stop and look up from the text before continuing. They favor weight over portability, margins you can write in over search bars you can type into, and dwelling over downloading.
E-books are good at many things. They are light, searchable, and infinitely portable. But portability has a way of dissolving commitment. A book on a device shares attention with every notification, every tab, every other book. It becomes one of many open things rather than the one open thing. The pathways I've made ask to be the one open thing.
A physical format insists on something an e-book cannot: that you chose this, here, now, and that you gave it a place on your desk or your shelf. That friction, the weight, the page-turning, the inability to cmd+F your way to an answer, is not a limitation. It is the architecture of the learning itself.
The ideas in these pathways were selected to be sat with, not skimmed. They were sequenced to reward patience, not efficiency. Offering them as e-books would be like framing a window and then handing someone a photograph of the view instead.
Consider it a kindness, not an absence: some things should take up space.