Philly-Bob’s Technical Log Notes that are probably boring to everybody else, but are useful to me in keeping track of my work on this project.

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There's a person called aibek in Internet Archives, who, although he called me out nastily once, telling onliners to "ignore Philly-Bob ...", he is very knowledgeable. Some nuggets:

• If Google is annoying to download from, copy the url of the EPUB link, delete the ‘.epub’ and substitute ‘.pdf’ to get the link to the PDF link. Similarly, put ‘.djvu’ for ‘.epub’ to get the link to the DJVU file.
• For Google Books (uploaded by ‘tpb’) the PDF file is not searchable, but the DjVu file is.
• Everyone must have noticed that hardbound books are bound in a different manner than papercovers. Pdfbook produces prints which can be bound in the hardbound book style. The whole book is divided into a few sections (you can choose the number), each section is to be sewn separately and then all of them sewn together. The sewing is through the middle of the folded page. I have printed and sewn many IA books myself in the regular (bad) style. Here, sewing is done around half-a-centimeter from one of the edge of the collected pages. This takes up some of the “valuable real estate” of the page, and the pages do not open “completely” (you have to use both hands to keep the book open). In the hardbound style you get all the space, and when you open the book, the book will remain open! I recently printed a book in this style, and I am not going back to the old style! (A further benefit is that you need to sew only half the number of pages in the hardbound style compared to the regular style. And this sewing is easier too.) In using Pdfbook, if you want the book pages to be A4, you would have to print on A3 size paper (and this would be folded.) The number of pages per section is called “signature”. You can use Pdfbook to organize pages for right edge binding (Arabic, etc) too. The software is part of the `Pdfjam' package. There is a `psbook' too which is supposed to work in a similar manner.
  http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/staff/academic-research/firth/software/pdfjam
• Have you come across the DIY Book Scanning site? If you can do some tinkering, it would be trivial to scan in the manner mentioned there.
  http://diybookscanner.org/
• Try Heiko Oberdiek’s ‘pdfcrop’ before printing the Internet Archive PDF files. It does a wonderful job of cutting out excessive white margins (automatically). This makes the fonts larger, and the pages much more attractive. https://code.google.com/p/pdfcrop2/ http://code.google.com/p/pdfcrop2/source/browse/trunk/pdfcrop.pl ... You can also try another ‘pdfcrop’, and ‘pdfnup’. (See the links.) http://pdfcrop.sourceforge.net/ http://vince-debian.blogspot.com/2008/09/pdfcrop-vs-pdfnup-trim.html

Thursday, November 15 2012, 8:29 PM
The URL of this website is now published in the Co-Op publication Shareholders' Voice because of controversy over rejected Bylaws article. Commented out some sections of website and some earlier Technical Notes to preserve privacy.
New Stone article. Now, three translated books from library. Reading Hungarian now. Having trouble keeping up, with big House Council and Budget meetings coming up Monday & Tuesday. Luckily, Thanksgiving should be easy.
Added 2012 Election notes.

Friday, November 9 2012, 10:36 PM
Consider risky downkload of handy $200 program: http://archive.org/details/Smartdraw2013EnterpriseEditionFreeDownload:
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Thursday, November 78 2012, 12:09 PM
http://www.accessible-archives.com/
Note: border large on left side of cover, and border small on top of each page: http://archive.org/details/KK-MuvekANokrol-ErtekorzesEsAtadas-PteIgyk-Szekszard-2012-17_23old

Wednesday, November 7, 2012, 8:40 AM
Up after Obama victory. Last night: Sipping champagne with friends after Obama victory. Greatly relieved. Proudly, drove four elderly and disabled voters to the polls today.
Why do I need dates on PDINDEX? Revised format.
TechIndex End:

Sunday, November 4, 2012, 1:15 AM
Hard work carrying plants on 2101 roof this morning.
Will be driving neighbors to polls on Tuesday. If Romney steals this election, I may go into hard-core street protest/arrest mode.
Finished Stone chapter on Road. Next 100-page chapter on Brothers.
Did German Propaganda image. Limited by skills in salvaging text.
Have to decide what to do for upcoming 2101 Arts & Crafts show.
TechIndex End: 1:32 AM

Saturday, November 3, 2012, 12:38 AM
Did stories for ShVoice. Uploaded to co-op and bylaw1 from small, now on big.
Walk to Chinatown for dinner with Ken.
Did another tile image.
TechIndex End: 1:52 AM

Friday, November 2, 2012, 1:07 AM
Did tile composition for PDIndex.
TechIndex End: 1:20 AM

Thursday, November 1, 2012, 2:13 AM
Long walk to library and bank. Got & started Stone.
Wrote occupynov1 and redid occupy.
Printed out PD images, but am not happy with them.
Redid Marani review.

To-do list:

1. Read Stone
2. Research smart-quote handling in Notepad++
3. Torrents?

10:12 PM
After day spent writing article on Bylaws (perhaps for upload to website) and helping Janice clean up after her drawing class, a little reading of Stone.
Did Floors image.
Attempted to conform laptop to big computer.
Tech Index End: 10:25 PM.

Wednesday, October 31, 2012, 1:27 AM
During day, redid Finnish on big computer. Had to retype large parts because of big computer/laptop mismatch.
After Board Meeting, did casement window image for PDIndex.

To-do list:

1. Pick up next book from Central Library
2. Put erotix in chronological order
3. Another revision of Marani review, JRM comments
4. Research smart-quote handling in Notepad++

3:47 PM
Last night, around 5 AM, did another PD Index, Aggregates.
Walked downtown and to Library, got new translation book: a nearly 500 page novel of life in a Polish village during World War II.
Rewrote Finnish one last time.4:49 PM
Edited Stone.htm, transindex.htm, transblog.htm. 5:18 PM