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"Mayayana" on Sat, 9 Mar 2019 18:22:50 -0500
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"pyotr filipivich" wrote
| One of the "joys" of Modern Technology, is that I can download
| text A (Say the King James Psalter), then "mark it up" using notes
| from Text B ( the Kathisma/Stasis sections of the Orthodox church, or
| the Monthly Reading of the Anglicans, or both,) and then printing the
| whole megillah. OTOH, I've been binding my own books (using needle &
| thread to stitch the signatures together) for a long time.
| But I rarely make more than one copy. I fully understand why
| books are expensive, and were formerly even more so.
Sounds like a very satisfying hobby.
Yep.
Back in tech school, I was working on a Project: make a rolex to
hold a set of parallels. Loads of fun. But as I told my instructor,
watching the machine cut a slot, again, if I was going to produce
these, I would be doing it very differently.
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pyotr filipivich
Next month's Panel: Graft - Boon or blessing?
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