I’m a big admirer of Paul Bradshaw. It’s heartening to know that we have tutors of his quality working in journalism education.

But I can’t see the point in this: Live-reviewing a book on Twitter.

Now I’m sure that Paul is merely experimenting with this technique. It’s always good to do that, but really, this is just Twitter overkil. On Twitter, I follow Paul Bradshaw’s tweets. Indeed, today, I’m ONLY following Paul Bradshaw’s tweets. Most of the others have been pushed off the page.

Twitter is the perfect tool to cover a developing story. Or to give momentary status updates of interest.

A book is a book. It’s not changing. Read it all and then tell me whether it’s any good or not.

You can’t provide live coverage of something that is, y’know, not live!