First of all, I've posted all the relevant details about the bowling and ID party event. The specific location info for the ID party has been IM'd to everyone on the list. If you're signing up late, just ask one of them as I'll only be only sporadically before then. The book's still pretty grobschnitt but it's at the point where I'm comfortable putting it up for a final edit run.
On the train ride up to Toronto (that's right, I have to commute to my own event!) I'll be working on the index for the scrapbook. The index is an online companion to the scrapbook — it allows you to type in a username and it'll tell you every page that it's on. Not only that, but you can type in a page and get extra info on all the photos (like full credits, background info, etc.). You can even make comments about pictures — it's an interactive index.
The index also shows the pages, so as to make IDing easier. Please note though that it uses a password system, so you can't access it unless you get the book. It's sort of a goofy system, but I think effective (it'll say things like “on page 337, one the 2nd line in the right column, what is the first word?”).
Now, here's a pile of pages… I should say that about 200 hardcovers and 100 softcovers are pre-sold. If you just want the softcover you don't have anything to worry about probably as I'll run a total of 500 books with the softcovers flushing out the run. But if you want a hardcover, you need to reserve it within the week!
One thing I like about this scrapbook is that it's so damn big (2200 images and 40,000 words of text at last count) is that I can post sample pages pretty much endlessly without running out or spoiling the book.
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