1/ In the Current Year, it's quite short. When it's totally-swear-to-God-for-real 100% done (notes on that in a moment), I have a PDF. I then upload that to http://lulu.com and 10 minutes later they're good to go. I can then click "buy" and I'm in the print queue. https://twitter.com/mattbramanti/status/1363923945544638468 …
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2/ I think http://lulu.com ships 3-5 days later? Then another 3-10 days in the mail? (Also, note, I do not "click" "buy". I have a script I wrote which parses CSV data for backers, and that script controls a web browser which navigates to http://lulu.com >>>
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3/ and places books in cart, sets addr to kickstarterbacker #93, clicks "check out", etc. [ bc last I checked lulu.coms API was not yet working ...but if it is now, I will rewrite the script ]
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4/ so, anyway, on the day that the book is 120% done, I will upload to http://lulu.com and place orders. Packages should arrive on front porches ~1-2 weeks later.
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5/ so, now, let's talk about "120% done". * I will finish this revision on 28 Feb. * I tried to parallelize proof reading, but that worked poorly. So I will submit to proofreader on 1 March. * That will come back in 2-3 weeks. * In parallel I will start selecting photos
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* By mmm...21 March? I will have a full proofread document with photos embedded. * Folks suggested that I do layout w LaTeX. I am tentatively agreeing with them. If I do I will use a 3rd party service with maybe 3 weeks turnaround time (?). So that means layout done by 14 Apr
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so, bottom line, best guess, right now, books head to printer on 14 Apr, and land on front porches before the end of April. [ leather bound editions, signed editions, vacuum sealed editions, etc. need to be shipped to my house, have extra work done, be remailed, etc. ]
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oh crap just realized that the "Lucifer's Hammer" edition inside the vac sealed bags ... is gonna be a bit trickier now that I'm contemplating 8.5 x 11 print size. My [ current ] vac sealer can't do bags that big. :grimace: ahhhh....gotta think about this
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