View Single Post
Old 11-04-2009, 07:37 PM   #81
charleski
Wizard
charleski ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.charleski ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.charleski ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.charleski ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.charleski ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.charleski ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.charleski ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.charleski ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.charleski ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.charleski ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.charleski ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
Posts: 1,196
Karma: 1281258
Join Date: Sep 2009
Device: PRS-505
Quote:
Originally Posted by rhadin View Post
Not quite. You still need an editor. Very few authors can produce a manuscript that doesn't need editing by a trained, experienced, professional editor.
You also need a layout artist who can ensure the text is consistently rendered and can add the stylistic touches that readers expect from a professional product. This is perhaps even more true for eBooks than paper ones, as they need tricky CSS coding for anything out of the ordinary.

Quote:
Originally Posted by kennyc View Post
+++ At a certain point it begins to bug me, but the diff (if there is any) between vinyl and CD's is only between the listener's ears.
Vinyl definitely does sound different - it's been distorted through 2 sets of equalisation, it's got surface hiss, it's got rumble, it's got scratches and warp and the top end fades away over 16kHz. And every time you play it you wear it out so it sounds a little worse.
charleski is offline   Reply With Quote