I have problems with it as well, but don’t know what the correct parent is that includes books, articles, blog posts, manuals, and related material. “Content” seems closest to me as “works” seems even more pompous and potentially confusing. In my own systems, I just punt on naming the concept and say “url.”
I use read, but I have a friend who frequently corrects me when I say I’ve read something where I’ve actually listened, like an audiobook. I use read because “listen” will confuse people slightly more in conversation that they started about the concept in a book they read. I’m not sure the correct parent is to the concept of reading a book and listening to an audiobook version of the same book. I tried using “process” but that’s pretty confusing to people.
I think the author also wants a parent to include watching a video, so consume may be best possible.
> that includes books, articles, blog posts, manuals, and related material.
Maybe the problem of the author is that grouping all these different types of works into a single bucket is a bad idea? If you only have books, you can easily grep around them (not really a need to index them), and so on.
For me, I want to store similar notes on all kinds of items and I use them all for similar purposes of training and entertainment. Seems like the author is trying to track similarly.
So still now sure what to call them other than content.
I can relate to this discontent with certain phrasing, it feels like some form of marketing in it's worst stereotypical form playing out and akin to scratching the nails upon a blackboard. FWIW the word synergy in the 90's would instantly raise red flags for me, today - not at all as less abused. Also speed reading enables you to gloss past all that filler and pull out the salient facts.
But I try not to let it get to me and made me wonder - how would somebody who couldn't see feel about the use of `content` over the word `read`? Text to speech been around long enough, possible somebody hearing this will have some interesting perspectives.
