Well, I don’t know the moral, or where this song should end

[rolanni]

Scattered day, much thinking, small writing. I suspect that I will write one more chapter, so that I’ve achieved a Certain Point, then print out and read what’s here.

I did go to the gym today and meet with the trainer. I now have a workout routine! I did half of said workout routine today, as part of the training. My stomach muscles? Are really pissed off at me. I’m committing to three days a week — Monday, Wednesday, and Friday — an hour each day, even if I have to wimp out on the strength-building machines at first, and finish out the hour on the treadmill or the bike.

Go, me.

The other thing of note that I did today was order a new alarm clock. This was unexpectedly time consuming. Who knew buying a clock would be so hard? All I wanted was a dual alarm atomic clock with a thermometer. After much shopping and reading of reviews and specs, I compromised with a SmartSet Dual Alarm Clock Radio with Jumbo 1.3-Inch LED Display and Time Projector (Silver). You may ask, and reasonably, Why did you buy a clock that projects the time? And I would be forced to say, It came with.

Maybe there’ll be a way to turn it off.

In other news, I am exploring ways to offer print books to people who want them. To that end, I will be doing a tour of Lulu and seeing how much of a strain it will be to upload Barnburner as my Test Case.

Anybody who’s used Lulu have any advice/insight/warnings?

Progress on the Book Presently known as George
52,213 of 100,000 OR 52% complete

“Enough! We dream as one! Now, let us go and gather what is needed.”

Originally published at Sharon Lee, Writer. You can comment here or there.

Comments

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Except that Amazon has apparently decided to slow distribution of Lightning Source titles in preference to titles produced through its own subsidiary, CreateSpace (http://www.thebookdesigner.com/2011/09/amazon-and-lightning-source-the-end-of-an-era/). I'm really not interested in play any more 800-pound-gorilla-games with Amazon than I strictly have to do in order to survive.

Lulu claims to distribute to Amazon and to BN, and I haven't heard of Amazon targeting Lulu-made books (yet). Which was part of my decision to look at Lulu.

[enleve.livejournal.com]

I hadn't heard about the way Amazon was slowing down the Lightning Source books. Sure enough, Venkatesh Rao's book (http://www.amazon.com/Tempo-tactics-strategy-narrative-driven-decision-making/dp/0982703007/) has the dreaded "Usually ships within 2 to 3 weeks." It didn't stop me from buying it, but I can't say my book buying habits are typical.

For what it's worth, I have ordered two books made by Lulu, and one made by Lightning Source, and I liked the Lightning Source one better. I thought it had higher quality. The text was crisper, and it smelled like a normal book, whereas the Lulu ones smelled more strongly of ink and glue and paper, and the spine wasn't constructed as well. But I realize that some of these things are subjective, and I have a small sample size.