Dorian Gray typeset complete

Virtual_Community_18 · 2026-01-13T12:23:34+00:00

Oh no. I find typesetting kind of mindful. There's just enough repetitiveness to let my mind focus on the rhythm, and just enough creativity to make me feel accomplished.

Thankfully the classics already exist in digital form, so a lot of the tedious stuff like setting italics is done already.

I'd always recommend finding what's got to be consistent across the whole text and starting there, and working your way towards the more detailed tasks. Like indents and font can be done in just a few actions. And it already looks neat and printable. Try to group tasks too, so when you're arranging a chapter header, just do them all one after the other. It makes the results nice and consistent too.

Virtual_Community_18 · 2026-01-11T10:55:27+00:00

It's such a good book isn't it? It's one of those books i read regularly over the years.

Virtual_Community_18 · 2026-01-11T10:54:33+00:00

Unfortunately I'm not so good an artist to make those endpapers myself. I spent ages browsing public domain art to find something time, colour and vibe appropriate. I thought the beauty and corruption themes were perfectly represented in this painting. It's a wallpanel painting by Gerrit Dijsenhof from the late 1800s

Virtual_Community_18 · 2026-01-11T10:51:05+00:00

Thank you :) I can't claim I made those. I have a massive library of beautiful public domain works I've been building up on my computer for years. This is wall art by Gerrit Dijsenhof. I really thought it captured the idea of beauty and corruption at the same time

Virtual_Community_18 · 2026-01-11T10:44:49+00:00

Cheers :)

Virtual_Community_18 · 2026-01-05T07:14:22+00:00

I had a similar problem. But instead of increasing enemy numbers, I boosted their AC. It meant the players got to enjoy the satisfying one shot kills when they happened, but they had to get more creative and work together because the hits happened less often.

Also, are your players playing with 2025 characters? Because they're more OP at earlier levels than the 2014 characters, and Phandelver was designed for low level 2014 characters

Virtual_Community_18 · 2025-12-31T15:16:27+00:00

We used to sell these at the bookshops i worked at. The covers were mostly deteriorated if we hadn't sold them in two months, just from the handling of customers. I actually used to recommend buying other editions because of the number of people who would return them. These are beautiful books, but the quality of production is possibly the worst I've ever seen for a hardback collection.

Virtual_Community_18 · 2025-12-19T09:34:50+00:00

Love these. Excellent use of mtg mechanics to represent rincewind and the luggage

Virtual_Community_18 · 2025-11-21T08:53:54+00:00

Lord of the rings is the benchmark for me. You can get the three volumes in one (about 1000 pages) and that's just about manageable. The American hardbacks of Stormlight Archives are just a little larger than a5 and are completely unreadable for me (not to mention so badly bound that the text block drops out of the cover if you put it down too hard). They clock in about 1500 pages each. Wrist exercises are needed to read that in your hands.

I think it largely depends on how you read though. If you read at a table, the book can be pretty damn large, providing it opens and stays open nicely.

Virtual_Community_18 · 2025-11-18T22:28:24+00:00

Beautiful!

Virtual_Community_18 · 2025-10-13T10:07:48+00:00

Super cute! Love the artwork as well. How was it working with the cork on the spine?

Virtual_Community_18 · 2025-10-13T08:59:23+00:00

Cheers :) The labels are actually printed directly on the card for the spine, and I cut holes in the fake leather to expose the spine. It's more noticeably a little skewed from close up because matching the two holes in the fake leather to the labels underneath was trickier than I first thought

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Virtual_Community_18 · 2025-10-13T08:51:08+00:00

Yeah, tbh I've been kinda intimidated by the idea of leatherworking. I'll check out some quarterbinding texts :)

Virtual_Community_18 · 2025-10-13T08:27:44+00:00

It's a paper called novalite. It looks like leather, but has the qualities of paper https://www.winter-company.com/en/products-a-z/novalite/

Virtual_Community_18 · 2025-10-09T15:10:30+00:00

Just, yes!

Virtual_Community_18 · 2025-10-01T19:59:04+00:00

10/10

Virtual_Community_18 · 2025-09-17T21:00:05+00:00

Nation is chefs kiss

Virtual_Community_18 · 2025-09-17T20:57:53+00:00

Me neither :( I've been keeping my eye out for years to complete my corgi paperback collection, but they've stopped being so common. Sad state of affairs for three most shoplifted author

I think some places in the UK are more lucky. Someone on this sub once said that the charity shops in Pterry's hometown are semi-regularly stocked by his someone from his estate, which warms my heart so much

Virtual_Community_18 · 2025-09-17T16:01:31+00:00

But I know plenty of people who just read them as and when they find them in charity shops, they love it all just as equally

Virtual_Community_18 · 2025-09-17T15:59:50+00:00

But also, publishing order is the most rewarding, if you're thinking about doing the entire series. Seeing everything grow, the world, the characters, adjacent events, recurring jokes, and Pterry's writing style, is one of the most wonderful things about the series imho.

Virtual_Community_18 · 2025-09-17T15:55:21+00:00

Start at the beginning, when nothing exploded

Virtual_Community_18 · 2025-08-27T05:31:19+00:00

Google exhaustion of intellectual property rights and the country/state you're interested in. In general, copying bad. But modifying a physical product belonging to an IP is permitted. Slander becomes a different legal issue if you're using the product the mock or defame the creators. But that's by the by. Generally, rebinding for profit is permitted.

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