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nerdierholler · 8 months ago

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I have a multitude of things I should have been doing lately: checking my dash here, finishing a quilt I promised my dad months ago, working on a cover letter for a full time job that’s due Thursday. Have I done any of those things? Nope. Instead I listened to the recent fansplaining episode on fanbinding and decided I wanted to poke that. Specifically I wanted to do all of the fiddly typesetting bits and spend time really getting into minute details on something because I don’t ever really get to do that and I like it.

I decided on Pride and Prejudice because 3 copies isn’t enough lol Anywho! After taking a big block of html text from project gutenberg, I think I’ve almost wrangled it into a typeset resembling a real book. It’s very satisfying.

#life at nerdy holler #jane austen #still might fiddle with the margins and image settings #but I think it’s really close #I’m pleased that I was able to use a tutorial and get it looking this nice on a first ever attempt #poking margins and fonts and being very picky has been a delightful mental break #will I actually bind this #I don’t know #but just the typesetting was a nice (almost) zero cost mini project #I’m out a tiny amount for the ink and paper I’ve used on trial runs #but it’s also stuff I have at home and don’t use that often so #my plan (if I do this) is to break it up into the original three volumes #and do each seperately #and I didn’t see a typeset like that already on my quick skim #plus I really wanted to try my hand at it

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