An e-book from blog archives
Jeff Barry has completed an interesting project of culling his blog archives to produce a free e-book, called Buenos Aires, City of Faded Elegance. He explains:
Whenever I come across a new blog I read the latest postings and, if I like those, I add the site to my news reader. I always intend to go back and browse the archived postings but I rarely do so. Figuring that a lot of visitors to my site also never make it too far into the archives, I decided to pull together a selection of postings from my archives and create a free e-book.
It’s a handsome book in a narrow vertical format (a format often used in travel publishing). The Bodoni face seems a good choice for the subject. My only regret is that there are not more images, which would surely bring value and add appeal, considering the subject.
The immediacy of blogging may cause us to forget that the process is also a way of preserving content and building on it. I think this project is an excellent example of utilizing and repurposing the results of sustained, focused blogging.
Posted: December 11th, 2007 under blogging, books, travel, webwork.
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Comment from Jeff
Time: December 11, 2007, 7:33 am
Hi Tom, Thanks very much for the nice review.
My partner Cecilia, who designed the layout, urged me to include more images. I actually didn’t want to include any but she insisted with at least a few. I guess I should really listen to the graphic designer in the family!
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