Archive: Riverglen Press category
The calligraphy bug bit me today. It happened when I saw the back of a greeting card -- the name of the press was styled in some kind of chancery cursive, and it looked really good. Hand-lettering would give a nice feel to my Riverglen books (the title ...
This afternoon I settled upon a name for my new virtual press: Riverglen Press. (The website's not up yet, though -- give me a few more days.) Quire Press was a nice name but people would have problems spelling it, and "Riverglen" has a British feel to ...
It's done! I finished up Translating Scripture, exported the whole thing to PDF, and sent it to the author, who'll take it to the press tomorrow morning on CD. It's a great feeling to be done -- I've been working on the book for the past few ...
But not quite yet. We moved the deadline to tomorrow morning so we could review the book (Translating Scripture) again and fix any remaining problems. As soon as we send it to press I'm sure the inevitable dread will set in -- what if there's some glaringly ...
Okay, I'm getting really excited about this classics project. :) I went on Project Gutenberg's websites and found that they only have a little over 100 PDFs (118, I think), and all of the ones I looked at were...less than satisfactory. Most likely machine-generated, in fact. And ...
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 ...
