Following in the footsteps of my reader’s editions of the Book of Mormon and D&C, here’s that reader’s edition of the Pearl of Great Price I mentioned earlier.
It’s available in both PDF and EPUB. You can also buy a hard copy on Lulu.
Let me know if you find any typos or if the EPUB doesn’t work on your reader.
My new reader’s edition of the Doctrine and Covenants is now up and ready for download (PDF and EPUB).
Basically, I’ve taken the text of the D&C, stripped out all the verse numbers, reparagraphed the text, reorganized the sections chronologically (I only had to move a handful of sections), gave each section a name (based loosely on Dane Laverty’s post, but I think I only kept around 10% of his titles), and pulled the date and place of each revelation up to make them more visible.
This also marks the release of my first EPUB. I’d thought about exporting straight from InDesign, but I’m a do-it-myself kind of a guy (at least at first), so I handcrafted this one. The process: I exported the text from InDesign to a plain text file (before I did copyfitting), then used Vim and some regular expressions to put a marker in between each section. I couldn’t figure out how to split the sections into individual files from Vim, so I wrote an awk script that did it for me, then wrote a Python script to take each text file and put it into an HTML file formatted the way I wanted it. And there were a few other scripts I wrote to generate various parts of the EPUB. All in all, not too bad, though I wish EPUB readers like Stanza would give me at least a little more control over formatting. (None of my CSS worked. Sigh.)
I should add that I’ve tested the EPUB in Stanza on my iPhone and in iBooks on my iPad and it works fine in both places. Let me know if it doesn’t work on your reader (or if it looks weird).
I’ve been working on a reader’s edition of the Doctrine & Covenants for the past month and figured I’d give y’all a sneak peek at how it’s coming:
I’m currently about a fourth of the way through reparagraphing the text and hope to have everything done by the end of the year.
The book will be available as a free PDF, and you’ll also be able to order a hardcover or paperback edition through Lulu.
Another project announcement: The Standard Works, a web-based keyboard-controlled scriptures reader (the Book of Mormon, the Bible, the Doctrine & Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price).
The app itself is located at https://bencrowder.net/scriptures/ and is about 90% done, but I’m not sure when I’ll have time to finish it up so I’m kicking it out of the nest and getting it out there.
Back in May, I posted about Words of the Prophets: Selected Sermons from the Book of Mormon, a book I was typesetting. Well, it’s done. It’s available as a PDF from my website or on Lulu as a perfect-bound paperback.
The Lulu edition is 5.5×8.5″ and uses publisher-grade paper (it’s white, pretty much like standard printer paper, and happens to be a bit cheaper). Eventually I’ll do a 6×9″ edition using Lulu’s standard cream-colored paper, but for now this will have to do.