My thesis is now in black covers. I wish i could say that i’m Terribly Pleased, but i’m not. The print job just isn’t as edgy as i was hoping for. There are small spots all over the job like from a dirty copier. The gold lettering on the cover bleeds and looks fuzzy. It makes me want to make a “remastered” version, with crisp printing and covers. Also, two typos were discovered. I spelled taught as tought (in the foreword, which i forgot to spell-check) and the bookmaker spelled my surname Laurèn, not Laurén, on the cover – but not on the spine.

It feels kinda bad that the final production ended up like this, but at least it’s a book. Tomorrow i will be submitting it to the school. Thank goodness. Deadline for this round is on Monday, so i’m way ahead of time ;).

If the cover job is a bit snotty (as in snot-like, not snobbish), the cover experience was Something Else. The bookbinder, Mr. Henriksson of Bokbinderi Henriksson & Co., is a gracefully degrading old man with an external memory (the Co. in Henriksson & Co., i.e. his wife). Their shop, which would be called “Ye Olde Bookbinder Shoppe” if it weren’t situated on a backyard in Kamppi, is a delightful little joint with old books and equally old tools lying everywhere, and a price list hand-written on cardboard. I will chalk this one on the experience, in both the experience it was and that i now know to research on print quality better.

Update: OK, now there’s a Remastered edition, with less typos but no working links. I just can’t remember how i created that nice original PDF document…