{"id":15520,"date":"2010-05-31T10:06:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T14:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2010\/05\/31\/so-much-for-that\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:17","slug":"so-much-for-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2010\/05\/31\/so-much-for-that\/","title":{"rendered":"So much for that"},"content":{"rendered":"

I really do intend to stick to the plan I talked about… at some point. But not now, evidently.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The book-plough turned out to not work for paperbacks. The hot-glue on the spine dulled the plough’s blade after one book, and the distributor confirmed that it can definitely only work on paper. (I know this now<\/em>, after I spent an hour this morning cutting through two sides<\/em> of a single paperback, sweating over the thing like a Viking rowing in the bowels of a ship.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

So that’s… not good. It means I can’t produce my novels, which is kind of the point of this whole endeavour. So this morning, when it became apparent that this lovely-looking piece of romantic, historical bookbinding gear was not fit for my purposes, I went online and ordered a new guillotine — one that isn’t a Chinese knock-off like my previous one, but evidently has a laser indicator and… stuff.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Fingers crossed this will sort it. And the plough… I dunno. If I manage to sharpen the blade, it’ll be fine for the insides of blank hardcover books. Or it’ll just be a very big decoration.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, I got to play all afternoon yesterday and I’m almost finished my “keeping score” boardgame:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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I really do intend to stick to the plan I talked about… at some point. But not now, evidently. The book-plough turned out to not work for paperbacks. The hot-glue on the spine dulled the plough’s blade after one book, and the distributor confirmed that it can definitely only work on paper. (I know this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}