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Old 06-16-2015, 12:44 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by Turtle91 View Post
Quick question Alex, Does the orientation contribute to the poem itself?
Good point. Could it be that the poem is typeset sideways simply to allow longer lines without unwanted breaks? In that case, any attempt to translate this into ebook seems futile.

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Originally Posted by eschwartz View Post
The Kindles can be manually put in landscape view.
It might be enough to add a note: "please set your reader in landscape" to the poem, in order to get the same effect as in the paper

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