After a couple of hours of work, I’ve finished the Latin edition of Martin Luther’s 95 Theses and made it downloadable at Riverglen Press. There are actually two versions: the learner’s edition has large print and lots of extra space for making notes between the lines (as well as in the margins); the reader’s edition is normal book-size print and is meant for reading, not necessarily notetaking (though the margins still give plenty of room for that).

Now that I’ve actually gotten something up, I’ll start work on Pride & Prejudice. And I’ll dig up the Thai script card I made in the mission office and upload it, too…

I’ve started my first project for Riverglen Press: Martin Luther’s 95 Theses, in Latin. It’ll be a learner’s edition, for printing out and translating. I’m working off the Project Gutenberg text. Right now I’m in a bit of a rush, but here’s a tentative layout I threw together in Illustrator (subject to change, of course): 95 Theses. Next week sometime I’ll finish it up in InDesign. (I imagine it won’t take too long.)

Discovered Wikibooks today. Very cool — it’s free, open-content textbooks on a variety of subjects. (I’m reading up on patch theory for my work on Beyond.)

Today I read about the Reading 2.0 conference, and it’s very interesting stuff. For good summaries of the main talks, see Tim O’Reilly’s notes.

On a somewhat related note, I’m wondering about how worthwhile it is to be able to produce PDFs on-the-fly from a text/HTML/XML source. As far as beauty goes, you could get a decent approximation provided that you made sure it did copyfitting and avoided widows and orphans and so on. And that’s possible. It could never have all the charm of a human-designed book, but I suppose it would do — like the utilitarian perfect binding vs. the far more aesthetic sewn binding.