I Wrote This For You

I Wrote This For You

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A book of poetry accompanied by images by Iain Thomas. I downloaded this to read on my Kindle not realizing it was poetry. In the interest of full disclosure, I have not looked at a physical copy of this book, but I have read enough to understand the intended format. I would assume that this anthology is meant to have an image at the top of each page and the poem below. The reader should be able to see the entire poem along with the image on one page, or at least on one spread so as to be able to take it all in at once. However, the Kindle changes the font size and formatting. The purpose of this is typically meant to make it more readable or accessible but in this case, it actually detracts from the author's intended consumption. You have to turn the page to finish the poem in almost every case, losing the visual for the last few words and disrupting the flow of the readers experience. In most cases, I would advocate for digitizing media to make it more accessible to people in all situations, but in this case, the digitization causes the overall experience to lessen.

Emma Moore

Emma Moore

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