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Jascha Writes: September 2011
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From Kindle to coffee and back again, by way of laptop/tablet/MP3 - genre fiction, literary fiction - low-brow, middle-brow, high-brow - equal-opportunity blogger here. One of the anomalies of the writing life that could stand more attention is the time difference. Between (a) events in what I call (rightly or wrongly) 'real life' and (b) their translation into prose. For example, the events in my own life that come to mind as likely source material for my novel A Kiss Before You Leave Me. Qigong is on m...
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Special Day | Hot off the Press
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Hot off the Press. Book Reviews and News from Distributed Proofreaders. July 4, 2016. Celebrations of American Independence generally focus on the men who made it happen. There were those who made it happen on paper, like John Adams. And there were those who made it happen on the battlefields, like George Washington. But there were no women in the Continental Congress, and no women in the Continental Army. As with many great historical events, women were, sadly, relegated to the sidelines. Richards deftl...
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Hot off the Press. Book Reviews and News from Distributed Proofreaders. From Paper to App: How Distributed Proofreaders Got a Cebuano Dictionary on Smartphones. March 7, 2015. Back in 2006, I was able to obtain a set of scans of John U. Wolff’s Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan. From somebody in the Philippines, and not much later I found a second set of scans available online from Cornell University. On this copy, stating that the book would enter the public domain in 1982. And a nice PDF version which coul...
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Opera Buff | Hot off the Press
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Hot off the Press. Book Reviews and News from Distributed Proofreaders. Not everyone likes opera, but when someone loves opera, it’s a deep and passionate and unending love. There’s something utterly beguiling about the marriage of music and drama that makes some people downright demented about it. I know whereof I speak; I’ve been working with a small opera company. It might be an exaggeration to say that Gustav Kobbé. Proves that it was no ordinary labor of love. Published posthumously in 1919. Alas, K...
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Hot off the Press. Book Reviews and News from Distributed Proofreaders. The Border and the Buffalo. June 1, 2016. Proofreading at Distributed Proofreaders has exposed me to a whole genre of books I never knew existed and which I’ve learned I really enjoy: first-hand accounts of the exploration and development of America especially the American West. Recently I worked on proofing one of these, a 1907 autobiography,. The Border and the Buffalo: An Untold Story of the Southwest Plains. But all was not waste...
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Hot off the Press. Book Reviews and News from Distributed Proofreaders. April 4, 2015. Maybee’s Stepping Stones. By Archie Fell is a book of Sunday school stories for each week of the year. As I read it, I experienced a wide range of emotions love, kindness, patience, life, death, naughtiness, guilt, fear, consequences, tolerance, forgiveness, family, community, happiness, sorrow, adversity, hope, loneliness, sadness, joy…. Maybee’s Stepping Stones. Denomination meant nothing to us so the church we atten...
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From Paper to App: How Distributed Proofreaders Got a Cebuano Dictionary on Smartphones | Hot off the Press
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Hot off the Press. Book Reviews and News from Distributed Proofreaders. From Paper to App: How Distributed Proofreaders Got a Cebuano Dictionary on Smartphones. Back in 2006, I was able to obtain a set of scans of John U. Wolff’s Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan. From somebody in the Philippines, and not much later I found a second set of scans available online from Cornell University. On this copy, stating that the book would enter the public domain in 1982. And a nice PDF version which could be used to re...
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Cebuano | Hot off the Press
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Hot off the Press. Book Reviews and News from Distributed Proofreaders. From Paper to App: How Distributed Proofreaders Got a Cebuano Dictionary on Smartphones. March 7, 2015. Back in 2006, I was able to obtain a set of scans of John U. Wolff’s Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan. From somebody in the Philippines, and not much later I found a second set of scans available online from Cornell University. On this copy, stating that the book would enter the public domain in 1982. And a nice PDF version which coul...
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Philippines | Hot off the Press
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Hot off the Press. Book Reviews and News from Distributed Proofreaders. From Paper to App: How Distributed Proofreaders Got a Cebuano Dictionary on Smartphones. March 7, 2015. Back in 2006, I was able to obtain a set of scans of John U. Wolff’s Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan. From somebody in the Philippines, and not much later I found a second set of scans available online from Cornell University. On this copy, stating that the book would enter the public domain in 1982. And a nice PDF version which coul...
