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[carmel_andrews]

Well done andrew....thankyou

[Yart]

I would love to see a book on this.

I feel intimidated by having to scour around links and find bits and pieces. I find a book lays everything out in a logical order best suited to learning everything from the ground up.

I'd buy one. Definitely.

[jfaulken]

I'm going through the steps right now on Lulu with the last version of the .doc file that was posted here. Curious to see how crappy it comes out without any real "fixing."

[jfaulken]

http://www.lulu.com/...ewbies/10211870

I'm going to take an editing pass on it, lots of things are stupid. I didn't put in page numbers, for instance.

I'm also going to have to fix a lot of margin errors. Does anyone know if

http://www.atariage....attach_id=85135

is the newest version from Andrew's text files?

[jfaulken]

Ok, ordered a copy. It was $11.71 with shipping. I set the price to the lowest possible so there's no profit. Gonna make an editing pass and clean it up right nice and then make another post here. I'll also update when the proof copy shows up.

[Dan Iacovelli]

is lulu good as cafepress?
I know cafepress don't publish color pages in books,does lulu.
and how much is it t sign up.

[jfaulken]

Dan, it's free to sign up. They do let you do color, but as far as I can tell you have to go all color or all b/w for an entire book. I've got a couple books at our office that we printed with lulu and the quality is *very* high. You can do hardcover if you like, I'm going for just a regular 'softcover textbook' feel with the work I'm doing.

The best technical books out there are O'Reilly in my opinion, so I'm aping their style and layout as much as possible.

Working on a new "beta" version tonight, I'll let you guys know when it's up. The last one was 6x9 which is more of a trade paper "fiction" layout, I'm doing the next revision at 7.4x9.6 which is more like a paperback textbook.

[Dan Iacovelli]

jfaulken, on Sun Feb 20, 2011 5:52 PM, said:

Dan, it's free to sign up. They do let you do color, but as far as I can tell you have to go all color or all b/w for an entire book. I've got a couple books at our office that we printed with lulu and the quality is *very* high. You can do hardcover if you like, I'm going for just a regular 'softcover textbook' feel with the work I'm doing.

The best technical books out there are O'Reilly in my opinion, so I'm aping their style and layout as much as possible.

Working on a new "beta" version tonight, I'll let you guys know when it's up. The last one was 6x9 which is more of a trade paper "fiction" layout, I'm doing the next revision at 7.4x9.6 which is more like a paperback textbook.

thanks for the information, Isaw that they do color books and figured maybe that would be good for the Jagfest book I'm working on.
(I saw that they E-books might be using that for my new zine I'm planning to do)

[jfaulken]

Sweet! I would love to have a set of about 10 color pages as an inset in the middle of the book. A set of "color plates" on glossy in an otherwise regular 40# book. Good luck with your project!

[jfaulken]

I haven't forgotten, just waiting on the proof copy to get here before I make some changes and re-upload.

[Syntaxerror999]

Nukey Shay, on Sun Nov 2, 2003 4:41 AM, said:

*click
*hum

I smell a hitchhikers reference...

[Syntaxerror999]

jfaulken, on Sun Feb 27, 2011 6:11 PM, said:

I haven't forgotten, just waiting on the proof copy to get here before I make some changes and re-upload.

any update?

[disjaukifa]

I'm curious for an update as well, I would love to get this text in a box I can set in front of me!

[jfaulken]

Heh, wow. Real life happened and I haven't gotten back to it.

I did get the copy back from them, it's really good quality. It's immediately obvious that I'll need to do a lot more formatting and content changing, though. I'll see what I can get done this weekend and update you guys again.

Excited that there's interest!

- John

[IAMAMRA]

any more news?