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04-20-2016, 01:40 PM
**w you can read 'Don Quixote' in 17,000 tweets
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Reading long classic books can be a frustrating experience for many, due to the daily distractions of contemporary life.*
That's why a retired Spanish engineer had the brilliant idea of making his country's most celebrated classic —*Don Quixote — more accessible by publishing it on Twitter, one message at a time.*
SEE ALSO: LGBTQ+ comic books blast away lazy stereotypes with awesome superheroes (http://mashable.com/2016/04/19/lgbtq-comic-book/)
Diego Buendia, 55, used an algorithm to divide the almost 1,000-page-long **vel about a*middle-aged gentleman obsessed with chivalry*into a total of 17,000 tweets.*
He plans to send the final tweet on April 22, the anniversary of the death of Don Quixote*author Miguel de Cervantes, from Alcazar de San Juan, believed to be the birthplace of the author, AFP reports (http://uk.businessinsider.com/afp-spanish-classic-don-quixote-published-in-17000-tweets-2016-4).* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/20/don-quixote-cervantes-spain-twitter/)
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Reading long classic books can be a frustrating experience for many, due to the daily distractions of contemporary life.*
That's why a retired Spanish engineer had the brilliant idea of making his country's most celebrated classic —*Don Quixote — more accessible by publishing it on Twitter, one message at a time.*
SEE ALSO: LGBTQ+ comic books blast away lazy stereotypes with awesome superheroes (http://mashable.com/2016/04/19/lgbtq-comic-book/)
Diego Buendia, 55, used an algorithm to divide the almost 1,000-page-long **vel about a*middle-aged gentleman obsessed with chivalry*into a total of 17,000 tweets.*
He plans to send the final tweet on April 22, the anniversary of the death of Don Quixote*author Miguel de Cervantes, from Alcazar de San Juan, believed to be the birthplace of the author, AFP reports (http://uk.businessinsider.com/afp-spanish-classic-don-quixote-published-in-17000-tweets-2016-4).* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/20/don-quixote-cervantes-spain-twitter/)
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