And she had to have them. She drives the story, and I needed the story to be driven by her so that I could experiment. If it had been for conventional publication it would have been very different, for I would not have experimented. Well, not the same way. For an e-book, yes.
People take longer to read text onscreen than they do with a book.
Even when they are using one of the little pocket e-readers, turning the pages with a flick of a key instead of a finger, they take longer. And they play with the controls, so they're more easily distracted. I think this decreases their already shrinking spans of attention, so I've tried to cater for it with less text, shorter sentences, much shorter paragraphs. But that gives the reader more work. You're now asking for more than attention.