I want to make an Arabic learning resources by reading through all these great textbooks. I want to build out my personal learning path, diligently studying and leaving a path for others like me.

As it stands, these great Arabic books are rather expensive and copyrighted so there aren't ways of turning them into more palatable, attractive content. The Arabic learning content on YouTube isn't as high quality as the textbooks and doesn't have the same kind of mereological charisma, the same wide-context fidelity, the same pedagoloical long-termism that these textbooks do.

I want a content ecosystem where these textbook authors can still get compensated, but there work isn't an all-or nothing investment, but can live in the short-form addiction world too. Good books are some of the best intellectual technology available. I want to read so many books interleaved, interconnected, mapped, charted, and dissected by with the help of the best computing technology available.

People don't make their books to compete in such an ecosystem; they pad their theses by beating around the same bushes, by long-windedly laying out background. In order to sell information itself, you have to submit to inideal incentives. Sell the physical books sure, but can't the glory of virality be enough compensation?

I think I'll start to try doing this myself. Would there really be a probelm if I use lengthy extracts from Taylor's Classical Mechanics but cite them dilligently? Whether people like it or not, generative AI is going to start (or already is) trivially replicating copyrighted information for consumption in a slightly more unreliable and toxic way. I think we just have to accept that thoroughly researching for hard-information content can be compensated only via good will.