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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
[Sequential instead of side by side]
Yeah, completely depends on a case-by-case basis. That might work in some books, but be horrible in others.
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Yes.
Fortunately in "The Circular Study" all the letters are short by Tom to Felix and the parallel next column are Tom's long "journal" entries about what he is really thinking and doing. There are also more Journal entries than letters. So the two columns works very poorly. Simply replacing all td with a <p style="letter_3"> for 1st in row and <p style="entry_3> for second in row, removing all tr and table almost worked. I had to move the ENTRY IX etc headings to below the Letter if there was a letter.
Reads much better. I added a right aligned comment as the actual text had an explanation of two columns
Initially there was maybe 1 or 2 pixel space between columns and the narrower letter column was also fully justified. So first attempt was change style in first column to have no first line indent, be left aligned and wider right margin. But the Kobo would chop the last lines of journal entries that didn't fit on one page so it only mostly worked and this is 8" Sage! Be much worse on 6" and terrible on 4" to 5".
Sooner or later a Table will bite when used in an ebook unless it can fit on the smallest screen at a reasonable font size. A Table almost the size of a full chapter is going to have problems.