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moving on to the print proof stage of the art of gig book project... it's been 11y since I last did this, and I'd forgotten how print is like 10x more complex than ebook
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all you people asking for print better make this well worth the marginal effort and dead trees... whether or not I do more print editions of past/future volumes will depend partly on how well this project does
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If I did print editions of all my ebooks, I'd have enough to fill about a foot of shelf-space probably... I have 10 volumes right now, of which only 1 (Tempo) is available in print. That one's rather thin at 0.5" but most of the others would end up fatter I think... 0.7-1.5"
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A non-trivial reason I'm doing this in print is that my parents (both in their 80s) keep asking me when I'm publishing my next book (and only print counts for them), and art of gig is probably material they can grok. I don't think they've read any of my blogs/newsletters
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Once in a while I remember that my grandfather actually managed a printing press... the two industrial ops I visited most as a kid were a steel plant and a printing press. Both are incredibly loud