When Amazon publishing is cheaper than Kinkos....


QQ for folks who have picked up v0.8 and v0.81 -- Are the sidenotes throughout the book useful? Informative? Entertaining? Distracting? Curious how others are reacting to them. 

I like books. Digital is fun and all, but real books, with real paper and real covers and that smell, that's the good stuff. Especially for editing. It may be more in my head, but I feel more thorough in my editing in print than digitally. Whether in Word or PDF on the iPad or Kindle, it's just not the same. So a printing we will go!

But when the job is 120 pages and my little ol' home printer can't seem to handle more than ten pages until starting over and over and over (so many wasted Instant Ink pages...) then I've gotta decision to make. Kinkos/Staples at $1 per color copy (2 sheets per page)? Or Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing proof for under $5 and neatly bound and presented to me in book form?

I mean, I didn't say it was a hard decision to make.

The Cover!

The metalworker!

The flip!

Why is it Farmer and Fisherman? Why does Farmerman and Fisher sound so weird?
Turned out pretty good! Already seeing edits to make (the reds either have to be darker or gone for one). May try again with PREMIUM COLOR INTERIOR and see if it helps the colors pop but it's really just a vanity project at that point. Unless someone wants to buy this in book form.

Edits have been made to v0.81 but I'm holding on publishing until I get a few more adjustments made, especially with this book in hand. Special thanks to sorgur for the incredible edits and guidance on the language in the book. Really helping the final product embrace the theme.

For those of you reading, playing, digesting, shaking your heads in disappointment (sorry, mom), please let me know if you have any questions, catch any typos or clarifications, and if you enjoy the game! Appreciate everyone who's given this any time, always honored when folks get a kick out of this stuff.

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I have used Lulu for my personal, on-demand printing needs. But definitely a +1 for a print book. Anything I want to keep and pass down to posterity I pick up in a physical form. Anything I just want to have fun with but doesn't peak my philosophical interest I get in pdf. I can imagine this beside my copies of Bushido, Mysteries of the Yokai, Sengoku, etc.

Oh, and I like the sidenotes. I find them informative and entertaining ... and therefore useful.