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It all started with the love hypothesis and now I'm already reading my sixth book.
I'm obsessed.馃拃
#i mean i was reading a lot of books even before that#but they were e-books#not paperbacks#or whatever they're called#idk#the love hypothesis#mr wrong number#stuck with you#below zero#under one roof#the american roommate experiment#ali hazelwood#elena armas#lynn painter#books and reading#books#book#booktok#bookworm#romance#STEMinist Novellas
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obsessed with mass market paperbacks. their pleasing rectangular proportions. how they fit badly in a hoodie pocket so you can drag them around everywhere with you like a temporary little buddy. the way they fit in your hand because they're MADE for human hands and not as bookshelf decoration. the way the pages feel when you riffle them gently with your thumb. How pristine and crisp they look when you get them and how creased and folded they look when you're done, even if you try to be nice to them. how that wear is okay, how that's correct actually, because they're made with the philosophy that books aren't meant to be PRETTY, they're meant to be read. that little ripple new ones get on the left side from where you hold them when you're reading, the way the ripple only goes as far as you've read, because u change stories by reading as they are changing you. how you can find thousands of these creased and folded and loved little dudes in every thrift store and used book shop and neighborhood library and you can instantly see the ones that someone carried around in a backpack for weeks or read to pieces or gave up on halfway through because they wear being read like fresh snow wears footprints. I love these poorly made, subpar little rectangles so much. truly the people's books.
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What books have you done this to?
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working on some silly tlt memes for my friend's bday and I liked how this one came out 馃ゲ
#i havent read the third book im waiting for the paperback to be released ToT#i dont care if it's kinda ooc for harrow i think she has the capacity to be a tiny feral creature#also i think gideon is short but harrow is shorter. like it's important to me that they're both RUNTS#anyway uhhhhh this is your problem now#the locked tomb#tlt#gideon nav#harrowhark nonagesimus#griddlehark#gideon the ninth#harrow the ninth
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Listen to your elders
So last week I posted abut the importance of downloading your fic. And then three days later AO3 went down for 24 hours. No one was more weirded out by this than I was. But while聽y鈥檃ll were acting like the library at Alexandria was on fire I was reading my download fic and editing chapter eight of Buck, Rogers, and the 21st Century. And also thinking about what I could do to be helpful when the crisis was actually over.
So first off, I鈥檓 going to repeat that if you鈥檙e going to bookmark a fic, you really need to also download the fic and back it up in a safe place. I just do it automatically now and it鈥檚 a good habit to get into.
But let鈥檚 talk about some other scenarios. Last October I lost power for over a week after hurricane Ian. Apart from not having internet or A/C I did find plenty to do, I collect books so I had plenty to read, but maybe, unlike me, your favorite comfort reads aren鈥檛 sitting on a bookshelf. So let鈥檚 do something about that, shall we?
In olden times many long years ago around 1995 we printed off a lot of fic. It was mostly SOP to print a fic you planned to reread and stick it in a three ring binder. And that鈥檚 totally valid today too, but you can also make a very nice paperback with a minimum amount of skill and materials.
Let鈥檚 start with the download; Go to Ao3 and select your fic, we鈥檒l be working with one of mine. This method works best with one shots, long fic tends to need a more complicated approach. Get yourself an HTML download
Open up the HTML download and select all then copy paste into any word processor. Set the page to landscape and two columns, then change the font to something you find easy to read, this is your book, no judgement. This is all you have to do for layout but I like to play a little bit. I move all the meta, summary, notes to the end and pick out a fun font for the title:聽
No time like the present to do a quick proofread. Congratulations, you鈥檝e just created your first typeset. On to the fun part.
Now you鈥檙e going to need some materials:聽 8.5x11in paper ruler one sheet of 12x12 medium card stock (60-80lb) scissors pencil pen or fine tip marker sheet of wax paper white glue two binder clips 2 heavy books or 1 brick butter knife
You鈥檒l also need a printer, if you鈥檙e in the US there is almost a 100% chance your local library has a printer you can use if you don鈥檛 have your own. None of these materials are expensive and you can literally use cheap copy paper and Elmers glue.
Print your text block, one page per side. Fold the first page in half so that the blank side is inside and the printed side out:
use the butter knife to crease the edge. Repeat on all the sheets. When you鈥檝e finished, stack them up with the raw edge on the left and the folded edge on the right. I used standard copy paper, because you鈥檙e only printing on one side there鈥檚 no bleed to worry about. Take the text block and line everything up. Use the binder clips to hold the raw edge in place.
Wrap the text block in the wax paper so that the raw edge and binder clips are facing out. I鈥檓 going to use my home built book press but you don鈥檛 need one, a brick or a couple of books or anything else heavy will work fine.
Once the text block is anchored down, take off he binder clips and get out the glue.
You can use a brush but you don鈥檛 need one, smear some glue on that raw edge.
Go make a margarita, watch The Mandalorian, call your mother. Don鈥檛 come back for at least an hour
In an hour smear some more glue on there and shift your brick forward so that the whole book is covered. This keeps the paper from warping. While glue part 2 is drying we鈥檒l do the cover. Get out your 12x12 cardstock
Mark the cardstock off at 8.5 inches and cut it. Measure in 5.5 inches from the left and put in a score line with the butter knife (the back edge not the sharp edge)
Carefully fold the score line, this is your front cover. You have some options for the cover title, you can use a cutting machine like a cricut if you have one, you can print out a title on the computer and use carbon paper to transfer the text to the cardstock. I was in a mood so I just freehanded that beoch. Pencil first then in pen.
Take your text block out from under your brick. Line it up against the score mark and mark the second score on the other side of the spine
Fold the score and glue the textblock into the cover at the spine. Once the glue dries up mark the back cover with the pencil and then trim the back cover to fit with your scissors.
Voila:
I鈥檓 going to put this baby on the shelf next to the Silmarillion.
The whole process, not counting drying time, took less than an hour.
If you want to make a book of a longer fic, I recommend Renegade Publishing, they have a ton of resources for fan-binders.聽
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fuck personality tests tell me what do u prefer? paperbacks? hardcovers? e-books? or audio books?
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Cover art for the paperback edition of Shirley Jackson's "We Have Always Lived in the Castle" - by William Teason
#we have always lived in the castle#shirley jackson#merricat blackwood#gothic#literature#illustration#illustrations#art#vintage paperbacks#gothic aesthetic#gothic fiction#horror girls#cover art#my posts
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STAR WARS: The Clone Wars/The Bad Batch 锟斤拷 George Lucas/ Dave Filoni/ LucasFilm/ Disney
My personal headcanon is that Tech got Echoed AKA Empire used his knowledge/experience/memories to train CXs troopers - that's why clone assassins got so good at fighting the batch - they're flash trained based on Clone Force 99 tactics. Following that headcanon of mine... CX2 was, to a degree, Tech... just as he was Crosshair, Wrecker, Hunter and Echo or more precisely... what Tech knew about his brothers and their capabilities/fighting style.
But I also believe showrunners are aiming to have Tech rescued in a different show (or a tie-in comics or a book) to have another property tied tightly to Filoniverse... also to strengthen my theory - J. Corbett admitted that she loves Marvel's Winter Soldier movie - make of that what you will.
The ending of TBB s3, in my opinion, teases an idea of a show circling around rebellion in which Omega will be at least secondary/supporting character so I think they'll make her rescue her fallen brother in her own show as a minor plot point or at least a TBB cameo.
I don't care either way as long as CF99 will be properly reunited.
#star wars#the clone wars#clone wars#tcw#the bad batch#the dad batch#bad batch#tbb#clone force 99#CF99#Omega#Tech#Tech lives#paperback-rascal's fix-it theatre#fanart#fancomics
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#i love my kindle but i don鈥檛 take it in as much as when im reading a paperback#and i can only take in audiobooks if its an autobiography if its fiction i wont take it in
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some pages from R.F. Fox鈥檚 classic children鈥檚 novel, Deltarune. I remember being so scared of Susie when I was little
#deltarune#utdr#kris dreemurr#susie deltarune#this is my dad鈥檚 book I think it鈥檚 the 1960 paperback edition#I own most of the other books but they鈥檙e different editions too#deltarune fanart#utdr fanart#unreality
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Paperback cover art by Paul Rader (1960s)
#paul rader#pulp art#paperback covers#adult novels#pulp artist#cover art#midwood books#illustrations#sixties#1960s
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i鈥檓 in love 馃槱
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I got some big prints made up of this one- there are only ten each of each colour for now
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Giveaw@y: We鈥檙e giving away 12 vintage paperback classics! Won鈥檛 they look lovely on your shelf? =) Enter to win these classics by: 1) following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblogging this post. We will choose a random winner on 30 July 2023. Good luck! Follow our IG account to be eligible for our IG giveaw@ys. For full rules to all of our giveaw@ys, click here.
#giveaw@y#literature#old books#paperback#classics#toni morrison#walt whitman#gunter grass#albert camus#daphne du maurier#lorraine hansberry#carson mccullers
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Latest eBay finds!!! My hyper specific collection of 70s paperbacks grows ever more complete 馃摎
#vintage#vintage paperback#books#book design#70s#daphne du maurier#shirley jackson#the haunting of hill house#my cousin rachel#rebecca#we have always lived in the castle#typography
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