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1 hour ago, J. Magi said:

Did we ever 100% figure out what the whole '163' thing was? Was it really for the new secret project or is still a mystery?

Yes it was timestamp 6:31 of video #631, announcing SP5 / Iles of the Emberdark.

But it's become a running joke too.

Or has it? >_>

Wind and Truth is DONE! + Weekly Update video

So, youtube these days has quite good video resolution . . .

Oh, what's that on the screen?

Enhance. Enhance. Enhance. Enhance that reflection. Rotate. Extrapolate.

Wait, what's that on the other screen?

Edit: Oh and the other screen is showing this image, whatever that's about!

Prose preview chapter 1

Not a typo, but a suggestion for editing, because this sentence really confused me.

Chapter 48

Took me a while to parse this correctly, and those first 3 words gave me a very wrong idea of what was going on :)

23 minutes ago, Treamayne said:

Do you move the notes to the end of the file, then uselinks to move to/from the footnotes "annotation?" Here's an example of what I mean from my edits to Dresden Files:

In the Discworld books the footnotes were already set up like that. I can't remember if the notes are at the end of each chapter, or in a separate file called footnotes.xhtml, or a combination of both within the series. I just left that how it was and changed the font size.

I really like the ebooks that bring up the footnote in a little dialogue box on top, those are fancy.

25 minutes ago, Treamayne said:

I was unaware of that setting (and still am, to an extent, since I can't seem to find it)

That linear tag isn't there in every ebook, only some.

On 01/05/2023 at 1:38 PM, Treamayne said:

May I ask if you did this with in-line code or by altering the CSS for the class used on the text?

I'm not sure what you mean by "cover picture linear;" but if you mean setting it to not overflow and always show the full image in both portrait and landscape modes, then I also make that change.

Footnotes - I added square brackets in the text, and in the CSS I altered the footnotes rule to increase the font size.

Linear cover picture - In calibre, if you import a book and run a check, one of the common warnings is "non-linear items in spine". If you click to see the warning location, I think it's the content.opf file(?) the file where all of the html / xhtml files in your book are listed with their links and their titles. They're listed in the order they will appear in the book. Sometimes there is a cover page at the front, and it will have the tag "linear=no". That tag means that you can't view or scroll to the cover page while you're actually in the book. The cover will be used only as a thumbnail for the book in your ereader library. I change it to "linear=yes".

I think there's also often a contents page at the end of the book that's non-linear, and from memory it's a kindle thing. I don't make those linear.

On 13/04/2023 at 11:34 AM, TheAlpha929 said:

The title says it all. I’m having a heated debate with my friends about this, how do y’all think it should be pronounced? If you say ca-TAN you’re wrong.

Does that mean you're arguing for CA-tan? So it sounds like. . . milk carton?

I say Kah-TAHN

Hi everyone.

A while back I came across a couple of people in this forum, and someone in real life, who have read Book 1 of Kingkiller Chronicles - The Name of the Wind, but did not wish to read Book 2 A Wise Man's Fear because of the sexual content. I decided to make a guide on how to skip the naughty bits, with a summary of the skipped chapters, since the rest of the book is really good IMO.

I posted it on Reddit for better formatting and searchability, linking here, cos some people in this community were the reason I made the guide.

I mostly just fix typos in my ebooks XD

I sometimes remove preview chapters from the ends.

I make the cover picture linear if it is not, I don't know why the trend is to have them as not. Oh, and I use Calibre's magic aspect ratio fix if the cover is all stretched.

In my Pratchett collection, I found the footnote links to be very small and difficult to click on, so I went through the whole of my discworld, made the font bigger and added square brackets around each footnote link.

I made some compilation ebooks. But I don't like to just merge them and have four different books in four different folders with different css files. So sometimes I'll edit them all to have matching css files, styles and fonts and the like.

I started a project to collect all of Brandon's online deleted scenes and annotations in one ebook. But I did not get very far with it.

On 25/03/2022 at 2:53 PM, Procrastination Shard said:

I believe Aux is meant to be saying aloud the parts about a knight speaking to their squire.

Oooooo

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Why would they be forbidden to you?

The 't' on they should be un-italic.

Same thing on other emphasised words in an italic phrase throughout.

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Nomad raised Auxiliary high in the form of a tall poll

pole?

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Almost assuredly, the knight said almost assuredly.

Un-italic for 'the knight said'. Same in many other places.

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They felt they felt they didn’t need to fight as a team.

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before these newcomers entered, we were Discussing Jeffrey Jeffrey

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And he dis so,

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It was difficult to maintain a properly brooding air after an encounter with the Akane.

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 Don’t even ask about how she regarded calling a someone by their first name

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I’ll admit to some pride regarding way Painter’s eyes. . .

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She added a scoop soak up the rest of the broth,

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But he suddenly, Painter found himself unnaturally tired.

I've only found one in this one, I'm slipping.

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And the everyone got to blame another death on the sorceress

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I’d thought I might need to wait until morning, and was contemplating demoting another half start from the tree,

should be half star

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I had medical nanites, but that would be difficult show off in an impressive, “Hey, look, I’m a God” sort of way.

"would be difficult TO show off"?

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The man blade connected with my exposed wrist, and his eyes widened as his knife didn’t cut me.

MANBLADE!

"man's blade" I think?

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It was an old sand-by for a reason.

stand-by

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Weren’t people in the past were all supposed to be much shorter than modern people or something?

Extraneous 'were'

Paragraph 5

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Damn. What driven that point into my brain so forcefully?

should be "What had driven . . . "

ReDawn (Skyward Novella 2) Draft 3.0 - 100%

ReDawn (Skyward Novella 2) Draft 3.0 - 59%

OM NOM NOM Brandon eats novella drafts for breakfast.

Wax & Wayne 4 66%

Evershore 25%

Heuristic Algorithm and Reasoning Response Engine with Ethan Skarstedt
it's a short story in Armored

Changes I'd make:
Firstborn is one word, not two
I'd put Defending Elysium next to Skyward and Starsight, and Mitosis next to Reckoners.

Cytonic 1st Proofread - 100%

Evershore (Skyward Novella 3) Draft 1.0 - 19%

Wax & Wayne Book 4 (Mistborn 7) - 48%

Well that went fast

ReDawn (Skyward Novella 2) Draft 1.0 - 100%

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