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I recently was compiling my old stories (I've written fiction since I was 7), to go in a book. Some of the stories were typed or printed in a courier font, and
by zandorg 17y ago
I recently was compiling my old stories (I've written fiction since I was 7), to go in a book. Some of the stories were typed or printed in a courier font, and I either used OCR software or typed it in by hand.
Some were on a hard drive backup (from a 286 PC with Wordperfect 5.1) from 1996.
The most bizarre thing, though, was stories I'd sent to friends over email, and then lost the original files somehow. I was able to run a search and find 4 (!) stories like this, in my email archive.
Sadly, in 1999 I broke a C64 disk which contained a few little bits of stories, so in this case, the paper outlasted the magnetic.
But now I have a 794-page hardback book (acid-free paper I think) of stories to put somewhere safe.
- gecko 17y agoI appreciate this is off-topic, but I've thought of doing the same thing for the same reason. May I ask where you found that was willing to do a high-quality one-off hard-bound print? I know of several storefronts that do either large runs, or only do paperback; just not one-off hard-bound editions.
- zandorg 17y agoLulu.com. A one-off 794 page volume costs £20 a copy and postage (though irrelevant when ordering in bulk) is about £6. It scales in that 794 pages costs little more than 250, except the limit is 800 (a paperback's limit is I think 500) The hardback has a colour dust jacket which goes right round the book and with inside flaps, and quite classy: there is gold lettering on the hardback itself! It looks like a 'real' book. As for acid-free, I'm not 100% sure, but a book I printed a year ago isn't going brown.