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Gregath Publishing e-zine
Volume 4, Number 5
May, 2005
Helping writers, genealogists and computer users of all kinds
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Table of Contents
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What's It
Mean?
Design Inspiration
Book Manufacturing Concepts
Marketing Advice
Genealogy Ideas
Computer Help
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What’s It Mean?
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Paper Grain: The direction fibers within paper generally lie, corresponding to the direction of their flow on the papermaking machine.
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Design Inspiration
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Too many choices to decide? Consider choosing a color (scheme) that matches a favorite color, allow the publisher to select something, or take the color (scheme) from family crest or tartan.
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Book Manufacturing Concepts - paper grain part 1
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Paper Grain Direction: All papers have a grain direction. When the grain runs along the longest dimension of the sheet, the paper is "long grain". Grain is seldom a factor in offset printing, however it is a major consideration in binding. Binderies prefer long grain since paper offers the least resistance in the same direction as most fibers in a sheet. Also, pages in books tend to lie flat better when they are made with, rather than against the grain. For saddle stitched books, a stronger book is produced with long grain, due to the fold being across the grain, but it doesn't lay as flat. Short grain paper is has difficulty maintaining dimensional stability and may result in more book problems such as wrinkled pages, etc.
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Marketing advice
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At workshops, frequently we wear our surnames, be they as a list on our name tag, on our note taking material, or on our clothing. Consider having a shirt made promoting your book(s) and wearing it to family, genealogy and research repositories and/or gatherings.
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Genealogy ideas
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Still looking for that lost ancestor? When you run across the right surname in a general area at the correct time, never discard this information. This data may be the same family (yea!) or different (boo!), but one can rarely tell when finding the data originally. Likewise, a group that appears not to be related when the information is found, may be related and you uncover the link ten years later. Don't rely on research data sheets to go back and find information you uncovered 20 years ago: records get misplaced, misfiled, moved, go through natural deterioration, in some cases are discarded or destroyed, not to mention acts of God or vandalism.
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Computer aid?!? - Web Update
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The Library of Congress Copyright office can now be found at http://www.copyright.gov with the older address of http://www.loc.gov/copyright listed in an earlier edition.
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