#readerwork

[albireo-mkg]

Ну что, утро-то у вас доброе, любители чтения? Очень надеюсь, что последняя суббота апреля утром вас порадовала и наш пост в эту радость входит) А у нас снова поэтическая красота на наш арт из арт-проекта #Hi_from_reality от Александра Козелова. Балует нас и вас Александр стихами) А вы в ответ может обрадовать рассказами или там вышивкой или еще чем-то, что вам арты наши навеют) «Планета Плюк. Что там виднеется вдали? Возможно, пепелац.» Все истории написанные для проекта нами и читателями можно прочитать на #wattpad (ссылка в шапке профиля), а стихотворение можно найти в главе под названием "Путь жертвы". #AlbireoMKG #объединяйтесьлюди #capitalismkills #кусочки_историй #сложи_свою_историю #история_с_картинкой #арт #art #читателипишут #readerwork #поэзия #poetry (at Варна, България) https://www.instagram.com/p/Crm_tRKoD-Q/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[kiki-widow]

Masterlist

Short things:

Eat

Kiss?

Family

Wild

Affection

Bite

Exhausting

Scared

Heaven

My Face

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Smutshots:

Natasha:

She is mine not yours - Natasha x gip reader

Office - Natasha gip x reader

Lab - Natasha x reader

Artist - Natasha x gip reader

The Mirror - Natasha gip x reader

Russian Teacher - Natasha x gip reader

Wanda:

First time - Wanda gip x reader

Jelous - Wanda x gip reader

Carol:

Gym - Carol x gip reader

Hela:

Kingdome - Hela gip x reader

Working - Hela gip x reader

Sif :

Peggy:

Highschool AU - Peggy x gip reader

Normal job? - (what if) Peggy x gip reader

Watersplash - Peggy x gip reader

Agatha:

Children - Agatha gip x reader

Valkyrie:

Jane:

Drabbles:

Our baby - Peggy x Sif x gip reader 

Present - Natasha x Wanda x gip reader

Relax - Valkyrie x Jane x gip reader

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Other Storys :

An assassin can also feel love!  Natasha x fem reader

Request

Ruels

[jeffparkeractor]

#readerwork #chicagoshakespearetheater (at Navy Pier) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByQgwh2Jxek/?igshid=1w3hy32e5am01

[utterlyhopeful-fics]

Masterlist

Pedro Pascal x Reader

The Last of Us 

Joel Miller x Reader 

Puppy Love  Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda (Part 2)

Marvel

Steve Rogers x Reader 

Snapped

Pretty Words

Broken Edges  Part 2  Part 3  Part 4  Part 5  Part 6  Part 7  Part 8 

Henry Cavill x Reader

P-I-Z-Z-A

Sweet as Sin

Pretty Little Fool

Sapphires and Sins

Wedding Season

Shattered Glass Will Glitter

Indecent Exposure

Any Other Day

Tough Love

Two of a Kind (drabble)

Butt Naked

Midnight Magic    Part 2

You Broke Me First 

Christmas Time is Here 

Birthday Wish

Fight for me

Wrong Place, Right Time

Yes, sir

FWB

Hand in Marriage

Welcome Home   Part 2

Dinner is Served

The Last Time (Song fic)

Home at Last 

I Can’t  Miles Between Us (Part 2)

Love on the Line  Part 2  Part 3  Part 4  Part 5   Part 6   Part 7

Sand Castle

Captain Syverson x Reader

Goodbye  Part 2   Part 3  Part 4  Part 5  Epilogue

Costco Haul 

The Tudors

Charles Brandon x Reader

Your Grace

For Love and War 

Silly Little Love

The Witcher

Geralt of Rivia x Reader

Rise Above

Mission Impossible:Fallout 

August Walker x Reader

Midnight Devil

Who is in Control?    Part 2

Drabble#1

The Predator and Prey

Mayans MC

Angel Reyes x Reader

Never Enough

Little Pink Line

Can’t or Won’t

Shotgun Wedding   Part 2

Save Your Tears

Get Out

Playin with Fire    Part 2    Part 3

Too Late

Tease

Desire

Damages

Secrets

Happy Ending

Brave Enough

The Luckiest Girl

Date Night with Angel

Nobody Touches my Girl 

Mission Complete

Bad Liar

Drabble #1

The Only One

Somebody Else  Part 2  Part 3  Part 4

HC #1 Netflix and Chill

Drabble #2

Amor y Miedo (Love and Fear)

EZ Reyes x Reader

Bodies and Betrayals 

Fun in the Sun

Morning Sex drabble

Hell or High Water

Watch Me

Pretty Boy

Old Scars

Love you too

Nightmare

Finally

Lucky Us

His Girl

Lo Siento

Drabble #1

Drabble #2

Drabble #3

Take me, I’m yours

Coco Cruz x Reader

Head in the Clouds

Just Friends  Part 2

Worth the Wait

Nestor Oceteva 

No Time like the Present

Prospect  Part 2

Drabble#1

Bishop Losa x Reader

Moment of Clarity

Not That Simple

Right here, Right now

Brat

Mine

The Bet  Part 2

Miguel Galindo x Reader

Work in Progress  Part 2

Sons of Anarchy 

Jax Teller x Reader

Already Gone   Part 2  Part 3

[allyngibson]

Throughout January I worked, off and on, on something of a private project, to make an ebook of Ellery Queen’s long-out-of-print anthology, The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes.

An anthology of Sherlock Holmes parodies, sprinkled with a few genuine pastiches and two play scripts, essentially a survey of non-Doyle Sherlock Holmes literature to mid-century, The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes was published in 1944 then allowed to go out of print, due to legal threats from the Arthur Conan Doyle estate. Never reprinted — twenty-five years ago in The Game Is Afoot, which contains about a third of The Misadventures, editor Marvin Kaye says there was (then) movement toward a reprint, but nothing ever came of it — The Misadventures has been a kind of Holy Grail, something I’ve long sought (and once held in my hands, in a college library) that I’d never own. That’s not to say that one can’t find them for sale, but I have better things to do with my meagre income than to spend several hundred dollars on a rare book.

A decade ago, someone uploaded a scan of the entire book to the Internet along with a very rough OCR of the book’s text. I found it, pretty much by accident, one day, and downloaded the files, assuming they might quickly disappear. (Which they have not, but I won’t point you in their direction. They are quite easy to find.) Whereupon they languished on my hard drive for several years.

Around Christmas 2013, after reading an article about it in The Atlantic, I began to use the now-defunct ebook reader software Readmill. This line in Robinson Meyer’s article intrigued me: “I’m nearly certain it has the best digital typography among e-reading software today. On Readmill, digital books look like books, not text files foisted into an extensible reading environment.” I sideloaded the software onto my Kindle Fire tablet and quickly discovered that, yes, Readmill had great typography, and then I began thinking about what I wanted to read with it.

I’ve been making ebooks for myself since 2000, when Microsoft released the Reader ebook software. (Though the software has been long unsupported, to this day I regularly use Berling Antiqua, the font that came packaged with Reader.) One of the first things I did was to download Overdrive ReaderWorks, a software package for making the LIT files that Microsoft Reader used. Even then, twenty years ago, nascent ebooks were simply containers that contained HTML files, CSS files, and images — essentially, the components that drive the Internet to this day. When I got a Nook, I downloaded Calibre, an ebook management package that can convert ebooks from one format to another, even let you build them from scratch.

Making an ebook of The Misadventures, then, was a deeply intriguing idea.

The first thing I noticed when looking through the scanned PDF of The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes was that it was a beautiful book. I fell in love with the typography, the heavy use of small caps, the old-style numerals.

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It was a book I wanted to look at and savor, not only because of its words but because of its beauty. I wanted to recreate, as much as possible, the look and feel of the original book, and I wanted my ebook to be just as beautiful.

I worked intently for about two weeks in early 2014. I would go to the text file — which was very, very bad — and copy out a story and paste it into Notepad. Then, comparing it to a printout from the PDF, I would correct the errors and lay my HTML tags. I even created CSS code so the story introductions would be formatted correctly.

Then, in mid-January, after completing a clean-up of about a third of the book, I stopped. To this day, I don’t know why. Did I lose passion for the project? Was I overwhelmed at work? Whatever happened, my working files sat, unwanted and unloved, in a directory on my desktop, and at some point I moved them off of my desktop, out of sight and out of mind. I’d think about The Misadventures from time to time, and do nothing.

Around Christmas, I said to myself, “Dude, why don’t you finish it?” And a few days after New Year’s, I picked it up again.

I had new ideas. I’m a big fan of Standard Ebooks, a project that makes free, professional-quality ebooks from public domain texts. Their books look great, they’re coded well, the CSS produces beautiful typography. Essentially, they made exactly what I wanted my ebook of The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes to be, so, using Calibre, I took a Standard Ebooks book apart and decided to use its code as my foundation, adding my chapters and my CSS code on top of the basic CSS typography.

I started with what I’d done six years earlier — the introduction and dozen stories I’d cleaned up — and added them to the Calibre project. Most stories started with a block at the top that indicated its detective and its narrator, side by side on the opposite sides of the page. I experimented with CSS code to make that work — I settled on using two SPANs and floating the text left or right — but most of it was fairly straightforward. The advantage to working in Calibre in this way was that, as I finished proofing and polishing a story, I could add it to the ebook file and see how it worked, building the book one story at a time.

There were challenges. Footnotes don’t work in ebooks, so I moved all of the footnotes in The Misadventures to an Endnotes section. There’s an index, which I wanted to keep, so I coded internal hyperlinks to the stories or, in some cases, endnotes that the original index would have. In so doing, I discovered one entry in the index that actually wasn’t in Ellery Queen’s manuscript, and there were two Wastonian characters that should have been in Queen’s index that weren’t. These I silently corrected.

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One thing I was keen to do was to retain the illustrations by Frederic Dorr Steele. Sidney Paget is considered the definitive Sherlock Holmes artist, but I have a distinct preference for Steele.

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One thing I did not do was to retain the dropcaps that led off each story. Dropcaps don’t work well in ebooks. But I did retain the way the original book began each story with a few words done in small caps.

It took about two weeks of work to complete the book. The two play scripts were probably the most difficult part of the book to format correctly. After assembling the finished book, I did a proofread on my Kindle, highlighting things that looked like they were wrong, comparing those highlights to the manuscript, and editing my files to make corrections. Doing so, I believe I’ve fixed a couple of typos from the original book. There was one howler of a fact error in a single story that I silently corrected by changing a single word, and I thought about adding one note to explain the reference to “32mos” in John Kendrick Bangs’ The Adventures of Shylock Homes, as that’s a term I don’t believe I have ever encountered (it’s an old publishing term, today we’d call it a “trade paperback”), but that I left alone.

Whether it looks the way I want it to is due to the ebook readers software, not my work. Different ebook readers implement the CSS3 spec incompletely or inconsistently. I thought the finished ebook would look fantastic in Moon+, which is considered one of the best ebook reader apps out there, but there were parts of my CSS that it simply ignored in favor of its own way of formatting. Small caps and old-style numerals are, shall we say, edge cases that aren’t always implemented. I tried various epub plugins for Chrome in Vivaldi and got exactly what I wanted in a desktop browser. On a phone or tablet, Gitden Reader did the best, but it’s not a particularly user-friendly piece of software.

Readmill did well with it. I discovered that I had implemented the detective/narrator block leading off each story badly. When I replaced the SPAN tags with P tags and a display: inline; rule in the CSS, they formatted correctly. But it can’t do the small caps or old-style numerals at all. Six years ago I might have driven myself mad trying to figure out why it wasn’t doing those things. Now I understand that it’s not Readmill, it’s simply how ebook readers work.

My decade-old Nook Simple Touch, poor thing, did better than I thought it would. The Nook has a well-known problem with centering images — it can’t handle the simple CSS rule margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; display: block; at all — nor does it do the small caps and the old-style numerals.

My Kindle Fire and the Kindle app on my phone do very well with it, as you can see from the screenshots above. It does the small caps correctly, but for old-style numerals I need to use the Georgia font instead of my preferred Palatino.

It’s unfortunate that The Misadventures has been out of print for the last seventy-five years as it’s rather entertaining and provides a nice overview of the state of Sherlock Holmes literature at the time of its publication. There’s an Arsène Lupin story (“Holmlock Shears Arrives Too Late,” the first meeting of Lupin and “Shears”/”Sholmes,” which you can read in Standard Ebooks’ Arsène Lupin collection), Vincent Starrett’s classic “The Unique Hamlet” makes an appearance, as does Mark Twain’s A Double-Barrelled Detective Story. There’s a Solar Pons story from August Derleth, there’s a story that a serious Raffles story and a Holmes parody at the same time, there are stories from Anthony Boucher and Manly Wade Wellman that place Holmes in a World War II setting, there’s even two stories about Sherlock Holmes’ children, one played for humor (his three year-old son is even better at deduction than his father, but with the maturity and discretion of a three year-old), one a serious mystery (with a Joan Watson, no less!). Many of the pieces are parodies and burlesques that poke fun, sometimes gently, sometimes savagely, on Sherlock Holmes. The script from The Adventures of Ellery Queen radio show with a Sherlock Holmes theme is really the only self-indulgent inclusion, but the story introductions by the Queen gestalt are fascinating, warm, and chatty in their own right. It’s a nice collection, one that, if someone brought back into print, I’d happily add to my bookshelf.

In spite of the limitations of the ebook reader software, I achieved what I set out to do. I created an ebook of Ellery Queen’s The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes, one that looks professionally produced and maintains, as much as possible, the formatting of the book as originally published in 1944. Sometimes I will open the book on my Kindle, just to flip through and look at it. It’s a good looking book, an attractive book, and I’m glad I spent the time, picked up the project again, and finished it.

The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes Throughout January I worked, off and on, on something of a private project, to make an ebook of Ellery Queen's long-out-of-print anthology, The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes.

[albireo-mkg]

День уже в самом разгаре, что успели сделать, какое впечатление с удовольствием слопать?) 😍 Мы вот восторг от текста под наш арт из арт-проекта #Hi_from_reality от Дмитрия Лазукина. Очень мы любим, когда наши читатели пишут) «- Боюсь, в эпоху силицизма все испытывают страх в той или иной форме. Я не хочу быть желудком-с-ногами, поэтому и еду на юг. Время героев проходит только потому что мы не хотим быть ими. Я хочу стоять рядом с королем на Камланнском поле на самом деле! Все говорившие замолчали разом. Костер горел. Тени за кругом света одобрительно шипели принимая слова Галахада, как клятву...» Весь отрывок можно прочитать в карусели или, как и многие другие истории написанные для проекта нами и читателями, можно прочитать на #wattpad (ссылка в шапке профиля). А данное произведение прячется в главе "Демон огня". А что вы видите на картинке и какую историю слышите? #AlbireoMKG #объединяйтесьлюди #capitalismkills #кусочки_историй #сложи_свою_историю #история_с_картинкой #арт #art #читателипишут #readerwork #разговорыукостра #campfireconversations (at Golden Sands) https://www.instagram.com/p/CrS_BI9Ic2R/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[albireo-mkg]

Доброго утра и чарующего весеннего денечка, всем любителям читать книжки и сочинять свои истории) Как проходит ваша весна, что в ней произошло нового? Может быть стихи неожиданно начинают слагаться?))) 😍 Вот под наш арт из арт-проекта #Hi_from_reality у Александра Козелова стихи сложились, так что самое время принести немного поэзии в этот весенний денек. Наслаждайтесь и делитесь своим прекрасным!) «Пласты реальности дробятся, Но не видны же всем они, И видим мы лишь отражение. Реальности или себя? Какое?» Все истории написанные для проекта нами и читателями можно прочитать на #wattpad (ссылка в шапке профиля), а стихотворение можно найти в главе под названием "Осень в Городе". #AlbireoMKG #объединяйтесьлюди #capitalismkills #кусочки_историй #сложи_свою_историю #история_с_картинкой #арт #art #читателипишут #readerwork #поэзия #poetry (at Варна, България) https://www.instagram.com/p/CrAaPT_oQgl/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[albireo-mkg]

Приветствую, следящих за Реальностью!) Как вы пережили среду и насколько готовы к предстоящим выходным от будней?🥳 Если вам в прошедших днях не хватало лирики, то есть она у нас... Немного не в привычной форме, но лирика, есть лирика) Берите ее у Александра Козелова специально написанной для нашего арт-проекта #Hi_from_reality ) Все истории написанные для проекта нами и читателями можно прочитать на #wattpad (ссылка в шапке профиля), а стихотворение можно найти в главе под названием "В общежитии". «Стою в метро, и мимо пролетают поезда, Расписанные кем-то как-то. Что я запомню? Лишь то, что на душу легло». А что вы бы придумали на этот арт? #AlbireoMKG #объединяйтесьлюди #capitalismkills #кусочки_историй #сложи_свою_историю #история_с_картинкой #арт #art #читателипишут #readerwork #поэзия #poetry (at Местност Ален Мак, Варна) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqZ3_UpIRKM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[jeffparkeractor]

#readerwork #chicagoshakespearetheater #chicagotheatre