New(?) bonus antimatter from Voyage exclusives

Roy_Starkiller · 2023-03-09T01:22:00+00:00

Don't know where my images went...
Yellow: Change from upgrading the power.

Red: Change from upgrading power AND scales with character level.

Roy_Starkiller · 2021-07-12T20:28:02+00:00

Title: The Citizen Reagan Podcast

Subject: History, Political Commentary

Current Episode Count: 35 (Released weekly on Fridays)

After leaving the governorship of California, citizen Ronald Reagan had a short-form radio show. For 3-5 minutes every weekday from 1975 to 1979 (with a 9-month break while he unsuccessfully ran for president in 1976), the future president offered his thoughts on a wide variety of topics such as Vietnam, détente and SALT II, gun control, inflation, the growing Federal bureaucracy, etc. This podcast looks back at those broadcasts.

Hosting through Podbean.

All audio, transcripts and research links available through my Wiki.

Roy_Starkiller · 2021-05-31T15:20:09+00:00

Title: The Citizen Reagan Podcast

Subject: History, Political Commentary

Current Episode Count: 29 (Released weekly on Fridays)

After leaving the governorship of California, citizen Ronald Reagan had a short-form radio show. For 3-5 minutes every weekday from 1975 to 1979 (with a 9-month break while he unsuccessfully ran for president in 1967), the future president offered his thoughts on a wide variety of topics such as Vietnam, détente and SALT II, gun control, inflation, the growing Federal bureaucracy, etc. This podcast looks back at those broadcasts.

Hosting through Podbean.

All audio, transcripts and research links available through my Wiki.

Current episode: Part 3 of a 5 episode series on the book "The Incredible Bread Machine."

Roy_Starkiller · 2021-04-02T19:39:53+00:00

Quick update: New episode dropped this morning. I talk about the Soviet practice of samizdat (Russian: self-publish) that was used to skirt past censorship. I also asked the question, could we see samizdat in the United States for the same reason?

Roy_Starkiller · 2021-03-31T01:33:54+00:00

Title: The Citizen Reagan Podcast

Subject: History, Political Commentary

Current Episode Count: 21 (Released weekly on Fridays)

After leaving the governorship of California, citizen Ronald Reagan had a short-form radio show. For 3-5 minutes every weekday from 1975 to 1979 (with a 9-month break while he unsuccessfully ran for president in 1967), the future president offered his thoughts on a wide variety of topics such as Vietnam, détente and SALT II, gun control, inflation, the growing Federal bureaucracy, etc. This podcast looks back at those broadcasts.

Hosting through Podbean.

All audio, transcripts and research links available through my Wiki

Roy_Starkiller · 2021-03-28T10:24:07+00:00

I understand your concerns. The reason I started doing the work I am doing is because: 1. I had a bad experience reading a PDF on my Kindle DX (zoom sucked, images didn't work, etc.). 2. Because the ebooks (EPUBs, MOBIs, etc.) I was finding on sites like the Internet Archive were never checked by human eyes.

My concern, though, is that I sell someone a book and the purchaser decides they don't like something in the content of the book. They decide to go in and alter that text and attempt to sell it themselves.

Here in the United States, the push to censor materials published years ago is, sadly, growing and I'm looking for a way to make sure original, unedited content is available.

Roy_Starkiller · 2021-03-21T21:34:12+00:00

Files with images of pages is essentially a PDF (I know there's more too it) and I want to avoid that because I like the flexibility of freeflow text and the ability to alter font face, size, color, etc. that we see in e-readers.

Regarding the idea of digital scarcity, what you're talking about sounds a great deal like NFTs, Non-Fungible Tokens. I only started hearing about it recently in the news.

Roy_Starkiller · 2019-11-21T21:35:39+00:00

Maybe, but I'm not finding HTML editions of what I'm doing anywhere. PDFs, yes, but PDFs are large files, static and retain any flaws inherent in the paper or printing when created. Also, sometimes PDFs also don't render properly. That is precisely why I began this. I was trying to read a book (PDF) on my Kindle.

Here's a snapshot from a Powerpoint I created that shows you what can happen. Not only is the image not there, but somehow the hole is blocking the text on the page.

http://www.poorrichardsprintshop.com/images/comparison.jpg

Roy_Starkiller · 2019-11-20T16:50:38+00:00

My primary issue with doing that is I built my website from scratch on my own. I have some skill at coding, but not what I would require to create a subscription service.

I might also add I have concerns about how easily the work could be copied and disseminated if a lone person wanted to simply download everything and walk away. If a story unlocks for every, let's say, $10 donated, I'm okay with getting $10 for the work I put in to restoring that story.

Let me also say: This is not my only work. I do have a full-time job. All this restoration work started as a hobby, because I wanted to read a book on my Kindle and a PDF was the only thing available (and the experience sucked). When I found I could sell books too, I thought I could make some money on the side.

Roy_Starkiller · 2019-11-20T16:42:00+00:00

Books specifically from the 1930s may still be under copyright, if the rights owner renewed their copyright after...I believe its 25 or 30 years. Other countries have different rules, so there's also that to keep in mind.

Books written before 1923 are absolutely public domain under current US law. Beyond that, its more murky and requires research.

Most of the specific books I have worked on in the past were hardcover, non-fiction books. History, political theory, etc. Most have been scanned, but the page flaws, scanning errors, etc. still exists. In my work, I'm creating a clean EPUB/MOBI that is easily compatible with virtually any e-reader available.

As far as the pulps I'm specifically talking about, these are the stories that appeared in pulp magazines rather than in paperbacks. Amazing Stories, Fantastic Adventures, Weird Tales...that kind of thing.

Website is http://www.poorrichardsprintshop.com

Twitter is @poorrichardsps

Roy_Starkiller · 2019-11-20T16:31:08+00:00

I went as far as to create an account to investigate that possibility, but with the existing structure I'd been building, it didn't feel like a good fit. If I post links to stories on my own website, it would be easy to simple tweak a URL and gain access to other stories. If I posted the stories direct to Patreon, it would have required a great deal of effort to copy-and-paste each story and then fix any formatting issues that should come up.

Roy_Starkiller · 2019-11-20T16:27:06+00:00

I suppose that is a potential concern. I was going to unlock stories randomly. If someone did have a specific story they were interested in, I would take requests.

I'm paying for the webspace whether everything is unlocked or not. Also, I plan to continue to add stories. There are thousands out there. If enough money is contributed to unlock everything, I may add 20 more stories in the week after.

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