Irish1975 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 07, 2022 7:07 am
This looks like great work, mlinnsen.
Will it be available in print form at some point?
Thank you very much Irish! Just keep looking
- it's a story in itself that evolves, and I'm curious to hear what you make of the sum total.
Your question is a very important one. I have considered taking this to print, either with the usual suspects or with Amazon.
With the former is need to either sell my soul (copyright) or negotiate my way out of that (by handing over a considerable sum of money).
Amazon (and others) would give me total freedom but "less prestige" although I couldn't care less about pedigree - I value merit alone.
The field and wider area that I'm publishing on has an audience that sits in between 40 and 80 I think, and paper is their trusted way of reading. The downside of it all is that the Commentary contains 7,500 hyperlinks and those would become dead once printed - and they are pivotal to my work in general, that supports
a vision that everything in it should be verifiable by all, at once, for free, in full
I could convert the bibliographical hyperlinks to footnotes and that would only cost me an hour, but it wouldn't work for the majority of links that serve to look up the Coptic and Greek words themselves or show a selection of a dictionary
Having said that, it would take an afternoon to publish this on Amazon in paperback and that would actually solve my biggest problem with them, which is the most hideous underlining in orange of all hyperlinks: check
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B085DJ5QZ5
The preview doesn't show them but the Kindle does:
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There is no way I can disable those and that's the reason why I haven't advanced beyond this stage - the Translation contains double the amount of hyperlinks and in order to preserve the complex layout of all the tables and cells, Print Replica is the only option to publish
So a couple of hammers and anvils there. Tell me please: what do you consider the benefits to yourself to be, and what size (Letter, B3, A5, etc) would you prefer a paper book to be? Have you printed the PDF, for example?
I'm just interested in feedback on this point so I can weigh the variables
Thanks!