Hardcopy Ideas

 

This document contains notes and brainstorms for my vision of the printed book.  Feel free to ignore this or send me your ideas a/o suggestions.  If you make a good one, you’ll be in the credits. J

 

Paperback / Hardcover:

 

I think I want both.  I want a hardcover edition for myself and a paperback for everyone else.  If I made all of the books paperback people would get upset over the huge, and largely unnecessary, price increase.

 

Trim

 

This would be the size of the book.  I want something fairly portable.  It shouldn’t be really wide or really tall.  At the same time this is a guide not a reference so it should be of a comfortable size to sit down and read wherever you are.  I would prefer 7 ¼” x 9”.

 

Paper

 

I like the paper of the book “PDF Reference 2nd Edition”.  Its glossy and the book is about an inch thick with 352 physical pages.  So, I think 350 PPI would be good for mine.  I should be able to fit the first two parts (Part 1 and Part 2) into that amount.

 

ISBN

 

Need to look into this.