Spent the morning self-publishing a 16-page booklet of my 9-year-old daughter’s NaNoWriMo YWP 2000-word novella. Text typed and styled with LibreOffice in Gentium, graphics scanned from hand drawings and edited in the Gimp, composed in scribus, imposed with bookbinder, printed from evince on a duplexing color laserjet, cut with a rotary cutter, stapled without a ride stapler by stapling into the end grain of a small piece of 2x4 lumber and then laboriously folding the staples by hand. She inscribed several finished copies as gifts for family members, so next we need to find appropriate envelopes and take a trip to the post office.

Unfortunately, I broke the rotary cutter by cutting too many pages at once. That’s a $50 mistake. At least I did it myself instead of one of the kids breaking it, so I’m only upset with myself for not reading the instructions that said to cut one or two sheets of paper at once, not eight…

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