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a bit off-topic: book printing
Note crosspost. c.l.postscript because I can imagine the people reading
that group have more expirience with non-home printing, and c.p.printers because printers are involved. Background: There are a _wealth_ of public domain books that have been scanned and / or OCRed available on the net now. These are great for reading on computer devices, but what if I want a print copy? I can, and have, naively send them to a local laser printer and get a stack of US-Letter output. I don't really like the look or the usability of that. Beyond the page count that I can easily staple, it's not a good format. I have also tried, once, the process of turning some 500 pieces of email into a bound epistolary. (Maybe e-epistolary be correct for e-mail? :^) ) For that I scoured the net for a good Latex template for the book, and finding none I really liked. There were a lot suitable for short technical documents, and few good for an entire book. Some pain points: formatting chapters, table of contents, the perfect-bound wrap-around cover, flowing non-prose text properly (eg embeded poems). I didn't have any illustrations to deal with in that book, but that looks intimidating, too. Reseach papers have a very different idea of frontmatter than novels or non-fiction books. Reseach papers need a lot more support for foot or endnotes. I did eventually get a PDF built with a "fiction novel" template. I made time based divisions of the email into the chapters for for that. Then I had Blurb (.com) print the thing for me as a trade paperback size perfect bound book. It's a lot better than a stack of US-Letter sized pages, but it still leaves a lot to be desired. Request: So with that background, I'm curious if people know good ways to print free ebooks. I'll give two links, to two different books at different sites (which share the same title) as example texts: https://archive.org/details/cu31924002801979 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26014 With the file formats there, and the whole world of printing services, what's the easiest way to get a respectable looking printed book, that would be conviently sized and sturdy enough to take on a field trip? Budget is not unlimited, but not too constrained. Time to prepare the document for publishing is more constrained. The Batty book, eg, has a lot of detail on making field expeditions to collect samples, so that would be a book you might want to carry off into the field. (I have "vintage" bound copies of both of those, and have read both. I present them as examples where I have a known existing thing to compare it to. Both have extensive illustations, and the occaisional table of data. The Browne volume has a fold out map, Plate V, kinda poorly reproduced at Gutenberg.) Elijah ------ kinda surprised more people don't want to do this |
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