The unedited author by Kevin Harris Most writers have one or two trusted readers-of-drafts, critical friends who are relied on to make suggestions and offer that gentle critique that we didn’t know we needed. And the closer we get to conventional publication, the more likely we are to find ourselves working with an editor who [...]
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The Unedited Author by Kevin Harris
December 5th, 2011 No Comments
Tags: bookleteering · editing · experiments · inspiration · learning · publishing on demand · unedited
Being 18 in the past and today by Katrina Siliprandi
November 29th, 2011 No Comments
Being 18 in the past and today: using Bookleteer for a museum-based project with young people by Katrina Siliprandi Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service Young people working on ‘Project 18’ carried out and recorded 39 interviews in people’s homes, at Norwich Castle museum and in residential care homes. They amalgamated quotes from these interviews with [...]
Tags: bookleteering · community · feedback · ideas · inspiration · inspiring uses · libraries · tangible souvenirs
New Pitch Up & Publish Events
November 25th, 2011 No Comments
From Friday 2nd December we’ll be running a free monthly meet up event for people wanting to find out more about using bookleteer or to get together with others and share tips and tricks for getting the most out of it. Donations will be welcome for refreshments and, most particularly, anyone choosing to sign up [...]
Tags: bookleteering · pitch up & publish
More dates for Pitch Up & Publish sessions
April 13th, 2011 No Comments
We’ve added some more dates (with different times of day) for Pitch Up & Publish sessions where you can find out more about using bookleteer for your own projects. These sessions are limited to just 6 people at a time so we can respond to your particular interest – whether you’re a complete beginner or [...]
Tags: bookleteering · pitch up & publish · workshop
You have been invited to…
March 9th, 2011 1 Comment
I was watching my 12 year old cousin plan out her party invites to her 13th birthday party, as I remembered using the same method when I was younger, using Publisher or making them by hand. As I watched her I realised how much more she could do with her invitations by creating them on [...]
Tags: bookleteer · bookleteering · eBooks · ideas · invitations · suggestions
Pitch Up & Publish 2011
March 1st, 2011 No Comments
We’re starting a new regular series of Pitch Up & Publish workshops to help people get started and make the most use out of bookleteer as possible : guiding them from concept to publication and beyond. The 2 hour workshops will be held at our studio, will have a maximum of around 6 places and [...]
Tags: bookleteering · feedback · making · pitch up & publish · print on demand · user guide · workshop
Holiday memories in your back pocket
February 17th, 2011 No Comments
Hi, I’m Radhika, the Marketing Assistant at Proboscis. You’ll see me pop up weekly, as I’ll be writing posts on ideas and suggestions for using Bookleteer in new and inventive ways. Take a look at my first idea… Going away this summer?? It’s a great feeling, once you’ve booked that holiday and start counting down [...]
Tags: bookleteering · examples · inspiration · suggestions
bookleteer API
January 13th, 2011 6 Comments
Just before Christmas we implemented a major new feature on bookleteer – an API (application programming interface) enabling eBooks and StoryCubes to be generated by users direct from their own web applications and stored in or downloaded from their bookleteer accounts. Realising Tangible Souvenirs This has been a long-cherished ambition for us – harking back [...]
Tags: API · bookleteering · experiments · tangible souvenirs · updates
Commission a local City As Material event
January 10th, 2011 1 Comment
Reflecting back on the 5 City As Material events of last Autumn, we’re really pleased both with the reception of the events themselves by participants and that of the resulting publications with friends and colleagues. Over the next few weeks we’ll be publishing the personal contributions of the guests (Tim Wright, Ben Eastop and Simon [...]
Tags: bookleteering · collaboration · making · pitch in & publish · workshop
First day at Soho Parish Primary School
December 15th, 2010 No Comments
When I heard I was going to be working on creative projects that combine art and publishing with year 5 and 6′s in a primary school is Soho, I was definitely excited about working with children on a project that sounded different, creative, and fun (both for the kids and adults involved!) However, hearing that [...]
Tags: bookleteering · education · learning · workshop
City As Material : River
November 4th, 2010 2 Comments
Last Friday we held our second Pitch In & Publish: City As Material event on the topic of River. We met at Hermitage Moorings in Wapping (where one of the participants is a founder member) and spent a short time introducing ourselves and our interests in the topic. Taking part were Anne Lydiat, Aleaxandra McGlynn, [...]
Tags: bookleteering · collaboration · pitch in & publish · river · sharing · walking
Some Recent PPOD books
October 8th, 2010 1 Comment
September was a busy month here at Proboscis and on bookleteer: we sent seven books to be printed via the PPOD service as well as 10 different StoryCubes. The range of publications was very broad, from books about exhibitions and art projects to a book in Arabic about a major archaeological excavation in Sudan and [...]
Tags: bookleteering · eBooks · eNotebooks · examples · inspiring uses · ppod · print on demand · StoryCubes
Case study – James Leach and the Melanesian Project at the British Museum
October 8th, 2010 1 Comment
James Leach is an anthropologist at the University of Aberdeen who has conducted field-work in Papua New Guinea for approximately 17 years. I recently spoke to him by Skype to talk about a project which also involved two of his friends, Porer and Pinbin from the village of Reite, who had travelled to the UK [...]
Tags: anthropology · bookleteering · eBooks · eNotebooks · ethnography · inspiration · inspiring uses
Case Study – Gillian Cowell
September 15th, 2010 2 Comments
This week’s eBook case study involves the work of researcher and community education worker Gillian Cowell. Gillian first encountered the eBooks online while doing research for her masters degree. She was interested in finding online tools help her to “capture data in a more interesting way for local people.” She was also hoping to turn [...]
Tags: bookleteering · collaboration · community · ideas · inspiration · inspiring uses · StoryCubes
If you want to continue reading, scroll down
July 27th, 2010 No Comments
I’m not sure if Choose Your Own Adventure books count as shared making or shared reading (or both?) but I would certainly claim it as an augmented reading experience. The Choose Your Own Adventure series of children’s books was published by Bantam books between 1979 and 1998, however, the format was used for several other [...]
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