As a reward for finishing my translation project I thought it would be great to get it professionally bound like a real book. Avi pointed me in the direction of lulu.com a company in the u.s. that does this service for the common man at an affordable price. After weeks of complaining to my parents that my books haven’t arrived yet, today they finally arrived (in fact I found them at the door step only 5mins after complaining they hadn’t arrived.) I got them hard bound with a dust jacket, when you open the book it has my essay after the contents and title page, then it tells you to turn to the back because that’s where the manga starts (Japanese read from right to left and I saw no reason to flip the pages). After some serious adobe acrobat acrobatics in getting that to happen, I was very surprised to find there were no printing errors (except for a font change on one word in the contents page, but that’s pretty minor and not the printer’s fault.) I had 4 copies printed, 1 for my parents, 1 for the manga library, 1 one for my supervisor and one for me.
This blog is getting pretty image heavy so I’ll just stick some thumbnails up, click on them to see the bigger picture.
