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Originally Posted by rkomar
The images depict the order in which the individual messages were posted, which you don't get from the single column text afterwards. There is a lot of information in that, and it was lost in the text-only version that followed. Clearly, the publisher couldn't think of a better way of doing it in an ebook. I was a bit irked at first, but realized that they at least made sure that no information was lost. So, although it wasn't ideal, I was mollified that they at least thought things through and gave me a chance to fully understand what was happening in the chats.
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Yep, I noticed what the author was trying to do - hold parallel conversations in public and private forum channels. And that method can't be done using columns, tables or any other method and still maintain the parallel posts in their correct position relative to each other, and not have text truncated at the end of screen pages.
I ended up posting the conversation threads consecutively and they still make sense. It took me over 8hrs over the last two days to detangle and reformat the epub. There were just so many styles- text messages, newspaper clippings, forum posts and there are just an immense number of each.
I'm up to ch29 now, and its reading quite nicely. Little fixes here and there as I come across the need, but reading the forum conversations consecutively seems ok. ie. it makes sense and I am not left wondering WTF is going on.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
If's a Comeran Strike book and yes it is annoying. I have two versions of this book. One with the images showing and one with the text showing instead of the images. I've not yet read it as I have not read the previous book.
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How do you end up with two versions? I was left at the whim of what Amazon sent me.
Unless you are implying that you obtained one (or both) versions from less than reputable sources? I know how against that you are with you endlessly pointing the finger at others....
Maybe I'll just leave this piracy talk for the mods to sort out
