Paper Monitor
12:05 UK time, Wednesday, 26 September 2012
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
Paper Monitor loves it when one of this parish's observations is made, quite independently, by another source.
Today's Sun carries a feature with the headline: "Why @Dickens would have been hooked on Twitter."
In it, the actor and Dickens biographer Simon Callow explains why the great novelist would have been a fan of microblogging and social media.
"He loved to be in contact with his readers, especially in his last decade, when he read to them from his books, " writes Callow. "So it is hard to imagine that he would have been able to resist Twitter."
It's a thought that had occurred at Magazine Towers, too.
The ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳'s Matthew Davis has taken up the challenge of reading all of Dickens' novels in 2012, the year that marks the Victorian writer's 200th birthday.
Each day Matthew has picked a quotation from the work he is reading. Each of these have been tweeted by under the hashtag #dickensoftheday.
If you would like to look back at them, each of the excerpts is being collated at Charles Dickens: The master of the snippet.
Great minds think alike. It's clearly the best of times.
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