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David Morgan \(MAMS\)
 
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"Particle Salad" wrote in message m...
Question... why did you stop posting the entries then? Was it just because
you had a good moneymaking opportunity on your hands (not at all a bad
thing)?



It would make sense. Given the writing style, I recommended "Book" within
the first couple of weeks of postings. Nice flair and a good feel for the reader.


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In article writes:

Cafepress actually isn't bad if you only have a small number that get sold,
but it's phenomenally expensive if you sell a lot.


It's sort of like making and selling your own CDs. Once you send them
the PDF, it costs the same whether you sell 1 or 50,000. If I made $5
on each one, I wouldn't cry over $250,000. I expect to sell maybe
300-500, and make less than I'd make from a Recording article that's
1/20 the length.

I've been looking into
doing that with the Recording articles but the thing is that I am not sure
what the actual sales will be like, and I really have no clue how to market
it.


It's clearly not a mass market thing, though we wish it could be.
Probably marketing it here and maybe through Tape Op would be most
effective. Maybe 10 Mix or EQ readers would be interested.

Wirebound is great for a reference book that you'll keep on top of the
console, but is otherwise pretty cheesy. Sewn bindings really are worth
the money just in terms of looking much more professional. People are
more apt to drop the money on a book that looks well-printed and well-bound.


It really IS a reference book, that will probably be kept on top of
the console. They also offer saddle-stapled (yuck) and Perfect
binding. For this size book they're all about the same. Perfect is
more expensive for the binding but cheaper per page. But you don't get
a real hard-back "bookshelf quality" book from Cafe Press. I'll bet
that the Perfect binding doesn't have printing on the spine.




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I'm really Mike Rivers )
However, until the spam goes away or Hell freezes over,
lots of IP addresses are blocked from this system. If
you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring
and reach me he double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo
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In article writes:

Cafepress actually isn't bad if you only have a small number that get sold,
but it's phenomenally expensive if you sell a lot.


It's sort of like making and selling your own CDs. Once you send them
the PDF, it costs the same whether you sell 1 or 50,000. If I made $5
on each one, I wouldn't cry over $250,000. I expect to sell maybe
300-500, and make less than I'd make from a Recording article that's
1/20 the length.

I've been looking into
doing that with the Recording articles but the thing is that I am not sure
what the actual sales will be like, and I really have no clue how to market
it.


It's clearly not a mass market thing, though we wish it could be.
Probably marketing it here and maybe through Tape Op would be most
effective. Maybe 10 Mix or EQ readers would be interested.

Wirebound is great for a reference book that you'll keep on top of the
console, but is otherwise pretty cheesy. Sewn bindings really are worth
the money just in terms of looking much more professional. People are
more apt to drop the money on a book that looks well-printed and well-bound.


It really IS a reference book, that will probably be kept on top of
the console. They also offer saddle-stapled (yuck) and Perfect
binding. For this size book they're all about the same. Perfect is
more expensive for the binding but cheaper per page. But you don't get
a real hard-back "bookshelf quality" book from Cafe Press. I'll bet
that the Perfect binding doesn't have printing on the spine.




--
I'm really Mike Rivers )
However, until the spam goes away or Hell freezes over,
lots of IP addresses are blocked from this system. If
you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring
and reach me he double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo


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(Scott Dorsey) wrote in message ...
In article znr1089551452k@trad, Mike Rivers wrote:
In article
writes:

The book is 396 pages long, is 1 and 3/8 inches thick, and weights 1.4
pounds. It's a hardbound smythe sewn book


Thanks for the specs. If I knew where I could get 396 pages printed
and bound, and make a little money selling it for $19.95, I'd publish
the book of my Recording articles that people have been asking for.


Cafepress actually isn't bad if you only have a small number that get sold,
but it's phenomenally expensive if you sell a lot. I've been looking into
doing that with the Recording articles but the thing is that I am not sure
what the actual sales will be like, and I really have no clue how to market
it.


seems to me that the market is pretty specific and there are only a
few ways of reaching that specific audience effectively: ads at
pro-audio discussion sites, or related sites, (there will surely be a
number of people interested here on RAP, but i suppose that's a given.
), you could put together a new website dedicated to the book and
offer a few of your articles for free (to get some traffic and foster
more interest) with ads for the book on each page and the ability to
purchase on the web, ads in the usual magazines: Mix, TapeOp,
SoundOnSound, Electronic Musician, Remix, Recording, etc...most have
classified sections that might suffice if the investment isn't
worthwhile for an actual ad space. if it were me (i know, it isn't!)
i'd probably focus on taking out ads in the more DIY/prosumer oriented
mags. it seems like there'd be a bigger market there period, but also
for your specific articles anyway.

obviously, you've probably thought about all of this, but i thought
i'd toss it in there as encouragement, because i think you might be
surprised by how much a book of your articles would probably tend to
just "sell itself" with a minimum of marketing. and also that it seems
like there aren't a ton of options for marketing such a specific
product anyway except the more obvious ones.
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(Scott Dorsey) wrote in message ...
In article znr1089551452k@trad, Mike Rivers wrote:
In article
writes:

The book is 396 pages long, is 1 and 3/8 inches thick, and weights 1.4
pounds. It's a hardbound smythe sewn book


Thanks for the specs. If I knew where I could get 396 pages printed
and bound, and make a little money selling it for $19.95, I'd publish
the book of my Recording articles that people have been asking for.


Cafepress actually isn't bad if you only have a small number that get sold,
but it's phenomenally expensive if you sell a lot. I've been looking into
doing that with the Recording articles but the thing is that I am not sure
what the actual sales will be like, and I really have no clue how to market
it.


seems to me that the market is pretty specific and there are only a
few ways of reaching that specific audience effectively: ads at
pro-audio discussion sites, or related sites, (there will surely be a
number of people interested here on RAP, but i suppose that's a given.
), you could put together a new website dedicated to the book and
offer a few of your articles for free (to get some traffic and foster
more interest) with ads for the book on each page and the ability to
purchase on the web, ads in the usual magazines: Mix, TapeOp,
SoundOnSound, Electronic Musician, Remix, Recording, etc...most have
classified sections that might suffice if the investment isn't
worthwhile for an actual ad space. if it were me (i know, it isn't!)
i'd probably focus on taking out ads in the more DIY/prosumer oriented
mags. it seems like there'd be a bigger market there period, but also
for your specific articles anyway.

obviously, you've probably thought about all of this, but i thought
i'd toss it in there as encouragement, because i think you might be
surprised by how much a book of your articles would probably tend to
just "sell itself" with a minimum of marketing. and also that it seems
like there aren't a ton of options for marketing such a specific
product anyway except the more obvious ones.
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In article writes:

seems to me that the market is pretty specific and there are only a
few ways of reaching that specific audience effectively: ads at
pro-audio discussion sites, or related sites, (there will surely be a
number of people interested here on RAP, but i suppose that's a given.


A gazillion years ago, when I was visiting a friend in the San
Francisco area, I dropped in for a visit at Mix Books to look around.
There, I picked up a really neat publication, a plastic ring-bound
looked-like-Xerox collection of articles, technical tips, application
notes, and articles. Unfortunately I loaned it to someone I don't
remember and never got it back, but it was kind of like what a
collection of my articles or Scott's would be now. Interesting to a
small handful. I don't know how many times I've replied to a post here
with something like "I wrote about that in an article in Recording . .
.. . issue" (Arny will probably do a search and tell me) but I somehow
doubt that more than maybe one or two ordered the back issue.

Recording readership turns over every couple of years, which is why
there have been a couple of other authors after me (and I followed at
least one) writing about the same basic subjects, so the information
is usually out there.


--
I'm really Mike Rivers )
However, until the spam goes away or Hell freezes over,
lots of IP addresses are blocked from this system. If
you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring
and reach me he double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo
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In article writes:

seems to me that the market is pretty specific and there are only a
few ways of reaching that specific audience effectively: ads at
pro-audio discussion sites, or related sites, (there will surely be a
number of people interested here on RAP, but i suppose that's a given.


A gazillion years ago, when I was visiting a friend in the San
Francisco area, I dropped in for a visit at Mix Books to look around.
There, I picked up a really neat publication, a plastic ring-bound
looked-like-Xerox collection of articles, technical tips, application
notes, and articles. Unfortunately I loaned it to someone I don't
remember and never got it back, but it was kind of like what a
collection of my articles or Scott's would be now. Interesting to a
small handful. I don't know how many times I've replied to a post here
with something like "I wrote about that in an article in Recording . .
.. . issue" (Arny will probably do a search and tell me) but I somehow
doubt that more than maybe one or two ordered the back issue.

Recording readership turns over every couple of years, which is why
there have been a couple of other authors after me (and I followed at
least one) writing about the same basic subjects, so the information
is usually out there.


--
I'm really Mike Rivers )
However, until the spam goes away or Hell freezes over,
lots of IP addresses are blocked from this system. If
you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring
and reach me he double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo
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I expect to sell maybe
300-500, and make less than I'd make from a Recording article that's
1/20 the length.



Word of mouth goes a long way when the audience is "listening" oriented.


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I expect to sell maybe
300-500, and make less than I'd make from a Recording article that's
1/20 the length.



Word of mouth goes a long way when the audience is "listening" oriented.
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On 2004-07-14, Mike Rivers wrote:

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writes:

My two cents : some of us don't live in North America. Paper has
its drawbacks, especially when it must be shipped across an
ocean.

I'd suggest that you and/or Scott compile your papers into PDF
or DJVU format and sell them for half the price, and no shipping
costs.


But sitting on the couch or in the tile reading room and reading from
paper is just so much better a way to read technical articles. Do you
really want to waste all of that paper and ink printing it, and then
not have something that's nicely bound?


I don't systematically print things. And, when I do, it's 2-up
with a small font, so paper wastage is no more of an issue that
it is with traditional publishing.

As for the bindings, short articles get "bound" with a staple in
the corner, which suits me fine. Large documents can be bound
with a plastic comb, which is arguably a much better binding
than anything else this side of sewn. The book will lay flat
without having to break the spine. If done right, i.e. with a
comb big enough than you can turn the pages without folding the
paper, a plastic comb binding is very durable, unlike wire
bindings and glued bindings.

I live in a small flat that is cluttered with, among many other
things, nine bookshelves, all overflowing. The only reason why I
haven't bought one or two more shelves is that I wouldn't know
where to put them. As you can imagine, anything that helps
reduce the amount of paper I have to keep is welcome.

I've been working on a book about the Mackie hard disk recorders and
I'm torn between putting a copy of it in PDF form on the accompanying
CD. Part of me says that people might want to keep it on their
computer in the studio and search for things in it, and the other part
says that once a PDF gets out, people will e-mail it to those who
would like to have it but don't want to shell out the cash for the
book (just like music).


Yes, that's the problem with electronic publishing. However, my
perception is that people are more likely to make illegal copies
if ;

a/ the author is a faceless stranger,

b/ the product is expensive,

c/ they know that most of their money is going to pay for overhead
like retailer margin, advertisement or the salaries of the
marketing team.

If you sold your book in electronic format for the margin you
were hoping for ($5, IIRC), you'd certainly pass the "cheap"
test. I don't think there are many people who will put several
thousand dollars into a piece of gear and yet are so cheap as to
try to get a $5 manual for free. But then again, I see people do
stranger things than that every day.

--
André Majorel URL:http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/
Respect for government [...] and its symbols is fundamentally fascist.
-- William Sommerwerck, on the subject of ****ing on a national flag.


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On 2004-07-14, Mike Rivers wrote:

In article
writes:

My two cents : some of us don't live in North America. Paper has
its drawbacks, especially when it must be shipped across an
ocean.

I'd suggest that you and/or Scott compile your papers into PDF
or DJVU format and sell them for half the price, and no shipping
costs.


But sitting on the couch or in the tile reading room and reading from
paper is just so much better a way to read technical articles. Do you
really want to waste all of that paper and ink printing it, and then
not have something that's nicely bound?


I don't systematically print things. And, when I do, it's 2-up
with a small font, so paper wastage is no more of an issue that
it is with traditional publishing.

As for the bindings, short articles get "bound" with a staple in
the corner, which suits me fine. Large documents can be bound
with a plastic comb, which is arguably a much better binding
than anything else this side of sewn. The book will lay flat
without having to break the spine. If done right, i.e. with a
comb big enough than you can turn the pages without folding the
paper, a plastic comb binding is very durable, unlike wire
bindings and glued bindings.

I live in a small flat that is cluttered with, among many other
things, nine bookshelves, all overflowing. The only reason why I
haven't bought one or two more shelves is that I wouldn't know
where to put them. As you can imagine, anything that helps
reduce the amount of paper I have to keep is welcome.

I've been working on a book about the Mackie hard disk recorders and
I'm torn between putting a copy of it in PDF form on the accompanying
CD. Part of me says that people might want to keep it on their
computer in the studio and search for things in it, and the other part
says that once a PDF gets out, people will e-mail it to those who
would like to have it but don't want to shell out the cash for the
book (just like music).


Yes, that's the problem with electronic publishing. However, my
perception is that people are more likely to make illegal copies
if ;

a/ the author is a faceless stranger,

b/ the product is expensive,

c/ they know that most of their money is going to pay for overhead
like retailer margin, advertisement or the salaries of the
marketing team.

If you sold your book in electronic format for the margin you
were hoping for ($5, IIRC), you'd certainly pass the "cheap"
test. I don't think there are many people who will put several
thousand dollars into a piece of gear and yet are so cheap as to
try to get a $5 manual for free. But then again, I see people do
stranger things than that every day.

--
André Majorel URL:http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/
Respect for government [...] and its symbols is fundamentally fascist.
-- William Sommerwerck, on the subject of ****ing on a national flag.
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In article writes:

I don't systematically print things. And, when I do, it's 2-up
with a small font, so paper wastage is no more of an issue that
it is with traditional publishing.


I'm getting too old to read anything but full sized type on full sized
paper.

As for the bindings, short articles get "bound" with a staple in
the corner, which suits me fine. Large documents can be bound
with a plastic comb, which is arguably a much better binding
than anything else this side of sewn.


I've always wanted to pick up one of those binders cheap, but then you
have to buy the plastic combs, and find a place to keep them where you
can find them the two or three times a year you need them, and it just
gets to be too much trouble for somehting you don't need very often. I
have a huge stack of 3-4 page printouts on my desk that I sift through
every so often when I know there's something in there that I need, but
I still like to read magazine articles from magazines.

If you sold your book in electronic format for the margin you
were hoping for ($5, IIRC), you'd certainly pass the "cheap"
test. I don't think there are many people who will put several
thousand dollars into a piece of gear and yet are so cheap as to
try to get a $5 manual for free. But then again, I see people do
stranger things than that every day.


You'd be surprised. My gut feeling is that if Mackie published this
book (and I offered to write one for them) the customers would expect
to get it free, as an "update" to the product they purchased. However,
if I publish it, at least some will happily pay for it.

Something about the manufacturer rewarding "loyal customers."

--
I'm really Mike Rivers )
However, until the spam goes away or Hell freezes over,
lots of IP addresses are blocked from this system. If
you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring
and reach me he double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo
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In article writes:

I don't systematically print things. And, when I do, it's 2-up
with a small font, so paper wastage is no more of an issue that
it is with traditional publishing.


I'm getting too old to read anything but full sized type on full sized
paper.

As for the bindings, short articles get "bound" with a staple in
the corner, which suits me fine. Large documents can be bound
with a plastic comb, which is arguably a much better binding
than anything else this side of sewn.


I've always wanted to pick up one of those binders cheap, but then you
have to buy the plastic combs, and find a place to keep them where you
can find them the two or three times a year you need them, and it just
gets to be too much trouble for somehting you don't need very often. I
have a huge stack of 3-4 page printouts on my desk that I sift through
every so often when I know there's something in there that I need, but
I still like to read magazine articles from magazines.

If you sold your book in electronic format for the margin you
were hoping for ($5, IIRC), you'd certainly pass the "cheap"
test. I don't think there are many people who will put several
thousand dollars into a piece of gear and yet are so cheap as to
try to get a $5 manual for free. But then again, I see people do
stranger things than that every day.


You'd be surprised. My gut feeling is that if Mackie published this
book (and I offered to write one for them) the customers would expect
to get it free, as an "update" to the product they purchased. However,
if I publish it, at least some will happily pay for it.

Something about the manufacturer rewarding "loyal customers."

--
I'm really Mike Rivers )
However, until the spam goes away or Hell freezes over,
lots of IP addresses are blocked from this system. If
you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring
and reach me he double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo
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But sitting on the couch or in the tile reading room and reading from
paper is just so much better a way to read technical articles. Do you
really want to waste all of that paper and ink printing it, and then
not have something that's nicely bound?


I don't systematically print things. And, when I do, it's 2-up
with a small font, so paper wastage is no more of an issue that
it is with traditional publishing.


andre, i understand your points, but at the end of the day, i'd rather
print. one reason is that i'm enough of a nerd to take books like
"the op-amp cookbook" out to peruse over coffee, or when i'm
travelling.

i suppose if i invested in a laptop, that could change, but, for much
of the same reason i still use tape, i like the tangible, "hands-on"
feel of a book.

plus, as mike pointed out, i can have it open on the workbench, desk,
etc.

however, if mike decided to do a cd-rom only publication, i would
surely buy that, too.


cheers,
chris deckard
saint louis mo
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But sitting on the couch or in the tile reading room and reading from
paper is just so much better a way to read technical articles. Do you
really want to waste all of that paper and ink printing it, and then
not have something that's nicely bound?


I don't systematically print things. And, when I do, it's 2-up
with a small font, so paper wastage is no more of an issue that
it is with traditional publishing.


andre, i understand your points, but at the end of the day, i'd rather
print. one reason is that i'm enough of a nerd to take books like
"the op-amp cookbook" out to peruse over coffee, or when i'm
travelling.

i suppose if i invested in a laptop, that could change, but, for much
of the same reason i still use tape, i like the tangible, "hands-on"
feel of a book.

plus, as mike pointed out, i can have it open on the workbench, desk,
etc.

however, if mike decided to do a cd-rom only publication, i would
surely buy that, too.


cheers,
chris deckard
saint louis mo


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On 2004-07-15, wrote:

Ditto, I can take a book along to peruse on a trip or something.
sInce I don't drive this old blind man will often haul along some
braille materials to look at while traveling. I don't do tapes as I
don't want to be buried behind headphones. SAme reason I probably
wouldn't do serious reading on a laptop with speech or one of those
little talking notetakers they sell to blind folks these days.


I used to work with a blind programmer who had a small Braille
terminal (1 row, 40 columns, as I recall). The thing was too big
to be carried around but I imagine a smaller version could be
made to go with a laptop.

THat brings me to another pet peeve. FOlks who do docs for
distribution on PDF format in such a way that Adobe's accessibility
plug-in won't pull it out to text that the screen reader can use by
outputting speech or braille. Only way to get these doccuments
accessible is to print the stupid things, feed them to your scanner
and let ocr crunch on them. THen you throw the paper away because
you're not going to use it again, then go through and clean up the
errors made by the ocr and edit sections for brailling in your word
processor of choice.


I don't know about Adobe's plugin but I have a pdftotext
utility. If you want, I can take a shot at your PDF with it.

--
André Majorel URL:http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/
Respect for government [...] and its symbols is fundamentally fascist.
-- William Sommerwerck, on the subject of ****ing on a national flag.
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On 2004-07-15, wrote:

Ditto, I can take a book along to peruse on a trip or something.
sInce I don't drive this old blind man will often haul along some
braille materials to look at while traveling. I don't do tapes as I
don't want to be buried behind headphones. SAme reason I probably
wouldn't do serious reading on a laptop with speech or one of those
little talking notetakers they sell to blind folks these days.


I used to work with a blind programmer who had a small Braille
terminal (1 row, 40 columns, as I recall). The thing was too big
to be carried around but I imagine a smaller version could be
made to go with a laptop.

THat brings me to another pet peeve. FOlks who do docs for
distribution on PDF format in such a way that Adobe's accessibility
plug-in won't pull it out to text that the screen reader can use by
outputting speech or braille. Only way to get these doccuments
accessible is to print the stupid things, feed them to your scanner
and let ocr crunch on them. THen you throw the paper away because
you're not going to use it again, then go through and clean up the
errors made by the ocr and edit sections for brailling in your word
processor of choice.


I don't know about Adobe's plugin but I have a pdftotext
utility. If you want, I can take a shot at your PDF with it.

--
André Majorel URL:http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/
Respect for government [...] and its symbols is fundamentally fascist.
-- William Sommerwerck, on the subject of ****ing on a national flag.
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Andre Majorel wrote in
:

I used to work with a blind programmer who had a small Braille
terminal (1 row, 40 columns, as I recall). The thing was too big
to be carried around but I imagine a smaller version could be
made to go with a laptop.


There are braille displays made for laptops. There is also at least one
laptop with a brailiedeisplay instead of a screen.

And there are PIMs with braille deisplays, at least on of wich runs Windows
CE, that can be used for reading manuals/books on the road. Unfortunately
they cost a lot more than ordinary PIMs.

I don't know about Adobe's plugin but I have a pdftotext
utility. If you want, I can take a shot at your PDF with it.


If it does a better job thad Adobe's own softare for this, I'd love to know
wich utility it is. Does it handle encrypted/locked PDFs as well?

/Jonas
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Andre Majorel wrote in
:

I used to work with a blind programmer who had a small Braille
terminal (1 row, 40 columns, as I recall). The thing was too big
to be carried around but I imagine a smaller version could be
made to go with a laptop.


There are braille displays made for laptops. There is also at least one
laptop with a brailiedeisplay instead of a screen.

And there are PIMs with braille deisplays, at least on of wich runs Windows
CE, that can be used for reading manuals/books on the road. Unfortunately
they cost a lot more than ordinary PIMs.

I don't know about Adobe's plugin but I have a pdftotext
utility. If you want, I can take a shot at your PDF with it.


If it does a better job thad Adobe's own softare for this, I'd love to know
wich utility it is. Does it handle encrypted/locked PDFs as well?

/Jonas
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On 2004-07-16, Jonas Eckerman wrote:
Andre Majorel wrote in
:

I used to work with a blind programmer who had a small Braille
terminal (1 row, 40 columns, as I recall). The thing was too big
to be carried around but I imagine a smaller version could be
made to go with a laptop.


There are braille displays made for laptops. There is also at least
one laptop with a brailiedeisplay instead of a screen.

And there are PIMs with braille deisplays, at least on of wich runs
Windows CE, that can be used for reading manuals/books on the road.
Unfortunately they cost a lot more than ordinary PIMs.


OK. The state of the art seems to have advanced a bit since
then. How big is the Braille display, in terms of rows/columns ?

I don't know about Adobe's plugin but I have a pdftotext
utility. If you want, I can take a shot at your PDF with it.


If it does a better job thad Adobe's own softare for this, I'd love to
know wich utility it is.


It's pdftotext, from the Xpdf suite.

http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/

Does it handle encrypted/locked PDFs as well?


It has options to pass user and owner passwords, so I guess it does.

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On 2004-07-16, Jonas Eckerman wrote:
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I used to work with a blind programmer who had a small Braille
terminal (1 row, 40 columns, as I recall). The thing was too big
to be carried around but I imagine a smaller version could be
made to go with a laptop.


There are braille displays made for laptops. There is also at least
one laptop with a brailiedeisplay instead of a screen.

And there are PIMs with braille deisplays, at least on of wich runs
Windows CE, that can be used for reading manuals/books on the road.
Unfortunately they cost a lot more than ordinary PIMs.


OK. The state of the art seems to have advanced a bit since
then. How big is the Braille display, in terms of rows/columns ?

I don't know about Adobe's plugin but I have a pdftotext
utility. If you want, I can take a shot at your PDF with it.


If it does a better job thad Adobe's own softare for this, I'd love to
know wich utility it is.


It's pdftotext, from the Xpdf suite.

http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/

Does it handle encrypted/locked PDFs as well?


It has options to pass user and owner passwords, so I guess it does.

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Respect for government [...] and its symbols is fundamentally fascist.
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Andre Majorel wrote in
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OK. The state of the art seems to have advanced a bit since
then. How big is the Braille display, in terms of rows/columns ?


There are different organizers with different sizes.

Here's a decent list of organizers and note takers:
http://www.youngopp.com/notetakers.htm

The same company also sells a bunch of braille displays:
http://www.youngopp.com/displays.htm

Note: I'm linking to the above company *only* because they seem to have a
pretty good selection of products. I have no idea as to how they are to
deal with.

/Jonas
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On 2004-07-10
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mixerman.net is an ad for the book, not in an audio
recorded form, not as a file, and not in Braille as far as I can
tell. The daily diaries, which I followed, were often downright
funny, sometimes philosophical, and occasinally contained some
genuine engineering tips. He's a good writer and I'm sure it's an
enjoyable book, but most of us have already been there ourselves.
Mixerman's version is just sometimes so blown out of proportion
that you can't imagine that it really happened that way . . and
then you can. --

That's why I'd like to see the rest of it. YEars ago I was working
for a studio that had a band locked in for four weeks and the
stupidity at times was ... well you get the idea. NOt near as blown
up as what I saw of the MM diaries but still left me scratching my
head. btw there was no pro tools in those days to try to fix
everything, so I spent a lot of time playing with single edge razor
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On 2004-07-10
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mixerman.net is an ad for the book, not in an audio
recorded form, not as a file, and not in Braille as far as I can
tell. The daily diaries, which I followed, were often downright
funny, sometimes philosophical, and occasinally contained some
genuine engineering tips. He's a good writer and I'm sure it's an
enjoyable book, but most of us have already been there ourselves.
Mixerman's version is just sometimes so blown out of proportion
that you can't imagine that it really happened that way . . and
then you can. --

That's why I'd like to see the rest of it. YEars ago I was working
for a studio that had a band locked in for four weeks and the
stupidity at times was ... well you get the idea. NOt near as blown
up as what I saw of the MM diaries but still left me scratching my
head. btw there was no pro tools in those days to try to fix
everything, so I spent a lot of time playing with single edge razor
blades.




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On 2004-07-09
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The Mixerman Diaries
were posted on Pro Sound Web a couple of years ago, but were
never completed. I have learned that they have been completed
and are out in book form. They can be had at
www.mixerman.net.
For those of you who are not familiar with them, they are the
story by an AE named Mixerman (who may post here - I'm not sure)
who is recording the "hot new band" named Bitch Slap for a major

deletia
"buzz" claimed it was a complete fabrication conjured up by
Fletcher, but written by someone else. Loved the part about the
replacement drummer who required super loud headphones. The author
claims they drove the headphones so loud that the drivers caught
fire. Not funny if true, but still... damn those phones must have
been loud. :) Sure miss the daily adventures.

I had a friend of mine picking them off prosound web for me for awhile
but missed quite a few.

fOr those who've seen mixerman.net please tell me if these diaries
are in ascii text format. IF so I'd run right over to download the
whole thing as it was a damned funny read. COuld see parallels
between these clowns and some groups I've recorded in the past. ONly
sad part was these clowns I worked with weren't major label bands, nor
was there major label money involved, just egos and stupidity untiil
their money ran out.



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On 2004-07-09
(DeafMellonMESA) said:
(orbb) wrote in message news:eaba9a7e.
The Mixerman Diaries
were posted on Pro Sound Web a couple of years ago, but were
never completed. I have learned that they have been completed
and are out in book form. They can be had at
www.mixerman.net.
For those of you who are not familiar with them, they are the
story by an AE named Mixerman (who may post here - I'm not sure)
who is recording the "hot new band" named Bitch Slap for a major

deletia
"buzz" claimed it was a complete fabrication conjured up by
Fletcher, but written by someone else. Loved the part about the
replacement drummer who required super loud headphones. The author
claims they drove the headphones so loud that the drivers caught
fire. Not funny if true, but still... damn those phones must have
been loud. :) Sure miss the daily adventures.

I had a friend of mine picking them off prosound web for me for awhile
but missed quite a few.

fOr those who've seen mixerman.net please tell me if these diaries
are in ascii text format. IF so I'd run right over to download the
whole thing as it was a damned funny read. COuld see parallels
between these clowns and some groups I've recorded in the past. ONly
sad part was these clowns I worked with weren't major label bands, nor
was there major label money involved, just egos and stupidity untiil
their money ran out.



Richard Webb,
Electric SPider Productions, New Orleans, La.
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