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Originally Posted by Quoth
Side by side formatting:
But who can read multiple twitter threads at the same time?
It's rare it's real time and any sane person reads threads sequentially.
Even if the book is brilliant, the ebook formatting is stupid and paper or ebook having side by side twitter posts like a newspaper or bible columns is daft.
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(That tweet cracks me up.)
You're....we're inadvertently misleading you. In the novel, you are not reading multiple Twitter threads at once. You read them the same way that you do in the real world--sequentially.
What is annoying and irksome is this idea that for some reason, we're going to read three different PM chats (Private Room chats), which basically look like ICQ chats from oh-dark-20th-Century, in 3 columns spread across the page so we're going to do...what? Read left-to-right, losing the track altogether? No, nobody is going to do that. They're going to read the left-most (assuming English language or L2R version, sports fans), then when they get to the bottom fo the page, they'll look to the middle column, lather-rinse-repeat and what they MIGHT look for, MIGHT, is wehther a perpetrator or typist might be two different avatars, typing in two different places, at slightly different times.
That's about it.
I am not the World's Greatest eBook Designer. But dayam, I would have found a far better way to do this. Perhaps use vertical stacking and interrupt threads, one with another, in some visual way. It's just...the kindest word I can use here is CLUNKY and it rips me out of the story
constantly.
P.S. for those of you commenting--I didn't say that Debbie Harry had written a novel. I said it was a memoir. :-)
Hitch