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Originally Posted by Amalthia
I fix the easy stuff if I can. And I add covers to books that don't have them. But finding covers that are good is a real pain.  |
I recently made 10 covers for the Barsoom Series by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
It was
way more work than editing the ebooks -- but
fun! If you're into making stuff from found objects, it rocks. (I found all the figure art on the web, then cut/changed it to suit a visual motif.)
It's interesting to look at them as they went along. I think I hit my peak at number three, but I leveled out higher than I started.
I'm going to knock together the 7 remaining ebooks Real Soon Now™ -- which, altogether will probably take less time than a single cover. But my source files are pretty good. (PG texts that I proofread a couple of years ago.)
I actually did this, in black and white, back when I was making ebooks for the REB1100, too. I pretty much hated the dithered covers that a straight import would get. If you have a minimalist aesthetic, you can come up with some nice stuff.
I did a monochrome cover for every Robert Heinlein short story, all from clipart and found images. Some are junk, but some are quite nice. It's worth the effort (although it's probably overkill for short stories.) And the covers could perhaps be shared, even if the texts cannot.
m a r
ps: the REB1100 is genius for proofreading -- read, bookmark, add note, read, etc. I think you could use rbmake to explode the text with the markup included -- so then you could correct within a note, using a standard format, and write regex to edit the file. At the very least, you could go from bookmark to bookmark easily.
pps: As I'm now mostly reading on my Nokia (and someday my Q7) I wish the FBreader guys would quit messing around with the java version of the reader, and add bookmarks to the standard version. And CSS, too. And tables. </grumble>