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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
I've printed sections of ebooks for reading. Problem is, I read a lot more than is practical to print.
I regularly read 15,000-word fanfic during my lunch break. It takes me a couple of days' leisure reading to get through a 115k-word novel (fanfic or otherwise)... I'm certainly not going to print that out.
I did print out copies of Little Brother and For the Win for my daughter to read. (And to get signed. Someday, we're gonna have to figure out how to do author booksignings for digital books.) Little Brother comes out to 300 half-letter sized, cut in half & GBC comb bound pages with 10-pt text; that's 75 sheets of paper, with a bit more than an hour's formatting time. I could make the text smaller but then the lines get annoyingly long.
I've printed some books in 8-pt type, 3 columns with .35" spaces between them; that works okay. But it's still a lot of paper to waste.
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Well, if your eBook is in ePub without DRM, it is fairly easy to get it signed. All you do is get the author to sign a blank page. Then you scan it as a graphic image and insert that into the eBook so then the eBook is signed. Simple really.