**w you can read 'Don Quixote' in 17,000 tweets
 

**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.*

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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.* Read more...


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