Kindle Once Again - this time for Walk, Hike, Saunter

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 Last time I did this was Dec 2017. At the moment, memory of how to do it is pretty foggy, but luckily I have my earlier blog posts on this to refresh my memory so printing them out to review. (look for Kindle label in this blog to find).  This book is a little easier than the others - text and inline photos, a table of contents, but no index. Susan has promised it will be out in two and a half weeks, so will try to do that. My immediate issue is that I remember that I have to make some changes to the Indesign file before putting out the epub file that I will update for Kindle, but don't remember quite what they were. Pausing to read my prior posts, and to review Kindle code for Healing Miles . From my 2012 notes I saw that to get reliable chapter breaks, each chapter had to be a separate xhtml file. The default of Indesign is to put out one big xhtml file, but it will break on a style, so I need to be sure the current Indesign document (for Walk, Hike, Saunter ) has an appro...
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Searching for the Peaceable Kingdom

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In the political spectrum, I am an environmental bigot. If it improves my hiking experience, I'm for it, if it harms it, I'm against it. If I have to judge something on a broader basis, my standard would whether or not it extends the "age of mammals" (as in "age of dinosaurs"). I live about two miles from Berkeley, Ca so don't hear a lot of differing opinions. I do hear a fair amount about evil in the white house. In the online forums I see rants from the right and the left. From the radio, I hear Dr. Laura's absolutely certain judgments. I hear all these things and wonder how much is heartfelt and how much is theatre. Personal experience with friends, family and acquaintances on both sides of the political gulf tells me that caring people can come up with opposite opinions. My nature is to calm things down. You will never see me posting in all caps, as that would be SHOUTING. I do like to get my way. Being the oldest child, I have to fight falling into what others call my "big brother" mode of giving instruction on how to do things, however unwanted that instruction is. My genes tell me that confrontation is to be avoided, and my experience tells me that for the most part, it is ineffective. Sticking © 2009 backpack45.com in here to foil blog bandits. I do have a point to all this. One of the publishing forums I belong to allows rants on weekends, and they usually boil down to right rants vs left, with a few conspiracy theorists thrown in for good measure. Charles Hayes, a member of that forum posted a link to a long essay he had written, titled: Liberal vs. Conservative: Peace at Last. My thought is that this is probably preaching to the choir, as the article follows the liberal tradition of seeing the grey in a situation, but read it yourself and decide. It is the September essay on septemberuniversity.org

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  1. Geoff PoundSeptember 2, 2007 at 11:23 PM

    Many thanks for your link to Dana Goodyear's abstract on Coelho.

    Geoff

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