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Originally Posted by Hitch
I'm reading the newest Cormoran Strike novel (Jo Rowling writing as Robert Galbraith), on Kindle and
OHMYFLIPPINGGOD!
(fear not, no plot spoilers)
The bloody eBook formatting is abysmal. I mean, horrible. Much of the book takes place in chatrooms, ICQs and the like. They could have taken myriad different paths to conveying this locales, text etc to the reader, but noooooooooooooo.
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https://www.newstatesman.com/culture...g-insular-long
May have spoilers.
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And no book should contain this many tweets. Twitter may be very realistically rendered in the novel, but that does not mean you want to read a series of tweets. Twitter, as Rowling would be the first to argue, is awful. In certain sections, the novel is written in the form of brain-melting simultaneous chat-threads lifted from the game Anomie runs, a game that, incidentally, it is hard to imagine anybody being invested in because neither its appeal nor its rules are convincingly explained.
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Perhaps better formatting can't save this novel?