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Just to steal Mateo’s thunder (hey, it’s my eyes that are bleeding!), we’re finally almost ready to get Resurrection (the book) out through lulu.com. The race is on to see whether it actually beats Android Planet to the market…
Take that you nasty people trying to sell it for $100 on Amazon!
Mateo made me take out some typos! There’s a microscropic author’s note, other than that, it’s the same as the original.
Don’t tell anybody, but the Android Planet proof copy was just ordered…the countdown begins…
MEGA EXCITEMENT! I lost my original copy of Resurrection when I moved house. Looking forward to re-reading the original again B)
[b]Steve F wrote:[/b]
[quote]MEGA EXCITEMENT! I lost my original copy of Resurrection when I moved house. Looking forward to re-reading the original again B)[/quote]That’s what you get for moving your house. You’re only supposed to move the things [i]in [/i]it, silly.[url=http://www.mysmiley.net][img]http://serve.mysmiley.net/winking/winking0047.gif[/img][/url]
[b]PatS wrote:[/b]
[quote][b]Steve F wrote:[/b]
[quote]MEGA EXCITEMENT! I lost my original copy of Resurrection when I moved house. Looking forward to re-reading the original again B)[/quote]That’s what you get for moving your house. You’re only supposed to move the things [i]in [/i]it, silly.[url=http://www.mysmiley.net][img]http://serve.mysmiley.net/winking/winking0047.gif[/img][/url][/quote]
LOL! :laugh: 😆
[b]blatham wrote:[/b]
[quote]Mateo made me take out some typos! There’s a microscropic author’s note, other than that, it’s the same as the original.Don’t tell anybody, but the Android Planet proof copy was just ordered…the countdown begins…[/quote]
I meant to ask earlier, but has the spacing at the end of the sentences been corrected? The original printing had double spacing after the periods, whereas single spacing is the correct form for books, and was used for all the recent publications.Single spacing is the form used online. Double spacing is the correct form for books.
Tex
(where do you think the concept of double spacing came from, yah?)[b]Tex wrote:[/b]
[quote]Single spacing is the form used online. Double spacing is the correct form for books.Tex
(where do you think the concept of double spacing came from, yah?)[/quote]
sorry, but you’re wrong. Books are single space after the period. Double spacing puts too much white space between the end and the start of sentences. If you take a look, all of the Lulu published books are single spaced.from Wiki:
“[b]One space [/b](French Spacing). This is the [b]current convention[/b] in countries that use the modern Latin alphabet[b] for published and final written work[/b], as well as digital (World Wide Web) media.”
I’m not really sure where double spacing came from, but from online sources it sounds like an old, antiquated style, which really shouldn’t be used by anymore. I know I was taught to do that when I learned typewriter in grade school, but it really has no place in modern publishing.
Personally I love the double space at the end of each sentence, it suits my aging eyes. What I would request is a little more space in the centre spine margin. It is so very hard to read and I am living in fear of snapping the centre spine… :ohmy: Surely a far greater tragedy than how many spaces to use at the end of a sentence. 😉
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