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by looking at the block of pages to the left and right of the current page. A virtual bookmark is automatically inserted when the reader leaves the page, to bring her back to that page with a single click on the next visit." The covers that have been designed for the three parts of the novel advertise their content and serve as the main entry points into the story. The collages for the covers – composed mainly from material recorded at original locations – focus on the book's content and by that obfuscate the technical aspects of the project. On the top level, these "covers" act as an iconographic representation of the project that frequently was quoted in the form of screen shots on blogs and other media.
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assumedly objective point of view always comes with the peril of producing exoticisms or hegemonial projections". The whole novel therefore is "strictly told in a first-person perspective stressing the bias of a subjective view instead of trying to avoid it. At the same time, the main character pretends to tell his story not only from his very own point of view but also at the very moment it is taking place". These considerations resulted in the novel's strict spatial and temporal linearity. With this narrative structure
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and cannot be changed by users. This has been interpreted as an intentional infringement of well established rules of online content presentation. Even though, the design contributed to the circulation and publicity the project has found and was highly valued by publications such as PAGE and
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