Do you think I'll get tricked by your old paper background and actually read this online? Or am I supposed to print it out? I'm confused. I think I'll print it up, fold it into a little booklet, and go from there.
I was trying to trick you--or, more accurately, to lull you into a compromise. All right, fine. If you're going to make a booklet, you'll need the book pages arranged in printer spreads. Can your printer print on both sides of a sheet? That would be the best way to do this.
I already printed it out in and folded it up. It goes like this: page 8, 6, 4, 2, copyright, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9. I'm going to have to cut the pages and rearrange them. I'm not going to reprint them, though. That would be wasteful.
You could print the front and back cover page; the first version didn't have a cover. Fold it in half, then put the book pages inside. Give the whole thing an authentic smell by rubbing it with leather, pipe tobacco, old money, horse manure, and petals from the yellow roses you toss onstage every Saturday evening during the final curtain call for Madame H------y, "the Songbird of Scotland," the object of your secret pining, whose limpid soprano is the toast of New York.
What a coincidence... I didn't even realize when I got on this topic that your recent posts are about bookmaking. Well, I bet Esther K. Smith doesn't tell you how to make your book smell like Mark Twain's waistcoat.
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You could print the front and back cover page; the first version didn't have a cover. Fold it in half, then put the book pages inside. Give the whole thing an authentic smell by rubbing it with leather, pipe tobacco, old money, horse manure, and petals from the yellow roses you toss onstage every Saturday evening during the final curtain call for Madame H------y, "the Songbird of Scotland," the object of your secret pining, whose limpid soprano is the toast of New York.
In all seriousness, I have printed out the Twain story and am planning on reading it.