Comment by nimonian

Perhaps this is a reason why there are some nicely designed apps with not-so-great content, and lots of books with legendary content: the whole ecosystem around app development isn't very friendly to the long-term process of writing a classic text.

It's also hard to focus on design, coding and content solo, and writing great, cohesive content tends to be a private endeavour. I'm not surprised to see immersivemath.com is written by a team.

I know (through fond memory!) your texts have some interactivity in hyperlinking to solutions and I found that very useful, but making it work must have taken time and been a bit of a headache. Extrapolate that to writing a webapp and it's easy to imagine you would never finish.

And yes, the words 'legendary' and 'classic' are direct compliments to you: your Lin Alg sits next to Spivak's Calculus on my bookshelf. They are both immortal.