Another, real physical book [by Maple]

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Rosemary by @jimprofit ! This is one of my favorite stories, so I was really looking forward to working on this. I managed to do the corners right this time, even if the text block itself is a little messy. I also managed to print the title on the fabric and only smudged it a little!

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Featuring full color illustrations
by @infraredturbine !

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I have one more printed and ready to bind, a small wrench got thrown into my plans after I found out that I cannot run the bookcloth through my printer :frowning: I’ll have to experiment on some shit before I take down that modifluff beast.

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Wow! Talk about SERIOUS talent. That’s legitimately one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen here!

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Wub!

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This is beautiful! You’ve been binding books for a while! :sparkling_heart:

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no, actually! i got my supplies yesterday lol

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Oooo I did not know this author, I will give him a read, thanks.

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Dude, that’s fucking awesome! Also that’s a great choice of story, Rosemary is, to me, the perfect fluffy story and Turbine’s art ties it together beautifully. Damn I would love to buy something like that but I’d be terrified to own anything fluffy related irl.
:star_struck: :smiling_face_with_three_hearts: :sparkling_heart: :heart_hands: :+1:

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what would i buy if i wanted to get into this?

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This guy is where I learned.

I got a craft knife, bone folder, cutting mat, and specialty paper (it has to be short grain or the pages wrinkle weird in the book) along with some bookcloth and bookboard. i really dont like the bookcloth though, so i would say use paper or cloth like i did on this one.

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I need to try this someday. It looks like so much fun.

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Amazing talent!

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thanks! my friend has been making a book and now i can help him bind it :3

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What printer did you use for these, and what DPI did you print them at? Color is some crazy effort

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This is nothing fancy, standard print quality. For the cover too. You can see on the image that there’s some streaks.

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Hey @BFM101 do you know the rough word count of the whole Josef arc … o.o for no reason in particular.

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Between 250,000 and 300,000. Potentially more depending on how much you consider to be the Josef Arc and how much is tangentially related but unimportant plot wise

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Rosemary is 52k and almost an inch thick. The entirety of the Josef Mongola Timeline would for sure need to be multiple volumes.

I may or may not be toying around with printing my favorite parts of it, If the author has no objections to it.

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The Whole Bloody Mongola Saga is too dense and too contradictory to be worth putting into physical media. I’d need to prune the whole thing down and I just can’t be arsed with that.

But if you wanna take a few select chapters and try them out then feel free.

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Respectfully, hard disagree, but you’re entitled to your wrong opinion about your own stories. :nail_care:t3:

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Yeah that would be a beast. Love the whole thing, read through it multiple times over but never in one marathon.

Formatting is by far the worst part of this. I cannot express how awful it is to fight with a word processor that’s not really equipped to deal with something that’s 624 pages long.

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