Title: In my hand, a pocket book edition of the Norwegian Free Culture book!
Tags: english, docbook, freeculture
-Date: 2015-08-19 22:00
+Date: 2015-08-19 22:10
-<p>Today, finally, my first printed edition of the Norwegian version
-of Free Culture arrived in the mail. I had to to fake some cover to
-get the interior printed, and the exterior of the book look awful.
-But that is irrelevant at this point. I asked for a printed pocket
-book version to get an idea about the font sizes and paper format as
-well as how good the figures and images look in print. After
-receiving the 500 page pocket book, it became obvious to me that that
-pocket page size is too small for this book. I believe the book is
-too thick, and several tables and figures do not look good in the size
-they get with that small page sizes. I'll go with the 5.5x8.5 inch
-size instead. A surprise discovery from the paper version was how bad
-the URLs look in print. They are very hard to read in the colophon
-page. The URLs are red in the PDF, but light gray on paper. I need
-to change the color of links somehow to look better. But there is a
+<p>Today, finally, my first printed draft edition of the Norwegian
+translation of Free Culture I have been working on for the last few
+years arrived in the mail. I had to fake a cover to get the interior
+printed, and the exterior of the book look awful, but that is
+irrelevant at this point. I asked for a printed pocket book version
+to get an idea about the font sizes and paper format as well as how
+good the figures and images look in print, but also to test what the
+pocket book version would look like. After receiving the 500 page
+pocket book, it became obvious to me that that pocket book size is too
+small for this book. I believe the book is too thick, and several
+tables and figures do not look good in the size they get with that
+small page sizes. I believe I will go with the 5.5x8.5 inch size
+instead. A surprise discovery from the paper version was how bad the
+URLs look in print. They are very hard to read in the colophon page.
+The URLs are red in the PDF, but light gray on paper. I need to
+change the color of links somehow to look better. But there is a
printed book in my hand, and it feels great. :)</p>
<p>Now I only need to fix the cover, wrap up the postscript with the