Archive: Bookmaking category
In my History of the Book class today, a riveting idea took hold of me: take Project Gutenberg texts (of classics) and make them into beautiful books with InDesign, and put them up for download as PDFs on my website. Why? It's nice to have freely available ...
No, not of The Da Vinci Code. (More on that in a second.) One more chapter of Translating Scripture and I'll be done, except for fixing errors and stuff like that. It's late, though, so I'll have to write more later. G'night.
Another short update. I spent around eight hours working on Translating Scripture today and I think I'll be able to finish it tomorrow, time willing. (I'll have to take work off.) It'll be nice to see it when it's done, a real, printed book. This bookmaking ...
I've been spending every spare moment working on the book, and we're getting even closer. It's a good feeling. :) I did go to see The Boxcar Children tonight, however, and it was a nice warm fuzzies sort of play. Other than that, I haven't done much ...
I've done most of the chapters (all but two) and have started on the appendices. You can actually see a PDF of Chapter Two online at TranslatingScripture.com. My goal is to finish it by the end of the week (or at least as much as I can).
Because ...
I've worked on the book every spare moment today and edited all the chapters, but I was only able to format one of them (in InDesign). Although I thought I'd have most of the day to work on the book, I'd forgotten about the Worldwide Leadership Training Meeting (two ...
So I've decided that tomorrow's going to be my marathon day for finishing most of the Translating Scripture layouts. When I get done there'll be only two chapters and one or two appendices left. We're getting close. :) I started using OmniOutliner tonight to keep track of ...
Today in my History of the Book class we made paper. :) A local guy, Rob Buchart, runs his own fine-book press and makes the paper and so he showed us how it's done. He took the fibers (shredded rags beaten to a pulp, basically) and stirred them ...
In the next week I plan to finish the design of Translating Scripture: The Thai Book of Mormon and the cover (which I haven't even started on yet), so that I can focus my time in this next month before the deadline (February 20) on editing and copyfitting. Let ...
