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Q&A First person with co-authors?

I'm rewriting a technical book that will list two authors: the original author and me. Much of the text has been changed and there are some informal parts where reader is addressed in first person:...

0 answers  ·  posted 12y ago by Marcus Booster‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T01:58:49Z (over 4 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/4125
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision by user avatar Marcus Booster‭ · 2019-12-08T01:58:49Z (over 4 years ago)
I'm rewriting a technical book that will list two authors: the original author and me. Much of the text has been changed and there are some informal parts where reader is addressed in first person: "_I_ want to show you ...". I'm wondering if this should this read: "_We_ want to show you ..."?

Personally, I think that "we" sounds weird (and distracting) because the book has been written on two separate occasions. For the most part I'm trying to eliminate these references, but there are a few times where it would be more trouble to do that.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2011-10-05T14:03:15Z (over 12 years ago)
Original score: 6