Archive: Bookmaking category
My proof copy of A Christmas Carol arrived today, accompanied by a few problems:
Problem #1: Lulu doesn't like InDesign's transparency, as you can see from the back cover (it should be roughly the same red as the front cover). The solution: I opened ...
Just now I was browsing through the children's classics section of the bookstore, the titles catching my eye with delight as memories of childhood swept over me. There were some editions that looked rather nice until I opened them up. Pathetic typography. Zero margins, or Times New ...
Finished A Christmas Carol today and ordered my proof copy through Lulu. I ended up completely redoing the crutches from scratch, since I'd learned a lot about Blender mesh modelling since I first made them, and I knew I could do much better. I also replaced the back ...
Just a quick update. I finished setting the text of A Christmas Carol a few minutes ago, so all that's left now is the cover -- specifically the front image (the crutches) and deciding what to put on the back cover. It'd be nice to do a full ...
Because proofreading Phantastes is taking longer than I expected, I'm going to publish a Riverglen Press edition of Dickens' A Christmas Carol in the meantime. It's shorter (~100 pages), which means I can finish it quickly and order a hardcover edition while I toil away at Phantastes. If ...
For my Middle English class today we visited Special Collections. I've been there several times before (we went there five or six times for my History of the Book class last winter semester, and I'd been there a couple of times before that), but seeing 500-year-old books is always ...
I figured I'd be more motivated to finish Phantastes if I printed out the cover and put it up on my wall, so yesterday I did just that. As part of that, I came up with a new logo for Riverglen Press, which you can see on the spine ...
School is proving itself extremely well-armed in keeping me from working on my various projects. ~sigh~ Hopefully I'll be able to find a balance within the next few weeks which will let me get back to the stuff I really care about (like making books :)). I haven't ...
I've been reading Marshall Lee's Bookmaking. Great book. ~drool~ :)
I'm in the middle of revising the romanized Thai hymnbook for the MTC. I've also printed out a proof manuscript of Phantastes (using InDesign's export-as-spreads feature) so I can proofread it at home. Still haven't done much on ...
Turns out that the Project Gutenberg text of Phantastes has a lot of typos, at least when comparing against my 1916 edition, so I have to proof it even more than usual. Oh well. :) It's a wee bit time-consuming, so the book won't be done as soon ...
