Proofreading a Printed Booklet by Drawing on the PDF, Then Binding Ten Into One Book
This is a follow-up to turning sermon transcripts into a book of verses worth memorizing. That post ended with one finished booklet and an honest worry: would the same script hold up across many more? Two weeks later I had ten booklets, and a new problem. They needed proofreading, and I wanted to hold the result in my hands as one real book. The Need: Proofreading Is Easier With a Pen Each booklet is built from a plain-text file. In theory, fixing a typo means opening the text file, finding the sentence, and editing it. In practice, I don’t notice mistakes in a text editor. I notice them when I read the finished page, the same way I’d read a printed book. And I don’t only want to fix typos. I want to say “underline this sentence, it’s the heart of the sermon,” or “this whole entry doesn’t belong, take it out,” or “move this paragraph to the end of the previous entry.” ...