= Book reviews notes

== To do

- cassidy -- How markets fail
- cash -- The mind of the South
- morozov -- To save everything click here


== Backup to crow

1. On this machine, do:
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$ bzr serve
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2. On crow, do:
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$ cd ~/a1/Bzr/Reviews
$ bzr merge bzr://quail
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== Publishing to my blog

1. With ``asciidoc``, use the following to produce HTML for my blog:
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$ asciidoc -b wordpress my_doc.txt
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   Or, use `asciidoc_wordpress`.

2. Then, edit the result (my_doc.html) in a GUI editor (e.g. Gedit
   or Geany) and replace end-of-line characters with blanks.  Or, in
   Vim, do ":%s/\n/ /g".

3. Next, copy and paste it into a new blog post edit, after clicking
   on the "Text" tab.


== Publishing to Amazon reviews

1. Copy to ``tmp.txt``:
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cp my_review.txt tmp.txt
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2. Delete the header and footer lines (the title and the Vim mode
   line).

3. In Vim, do ":set textwidth=90", then reformat all paragraphs:
   "gggqG"

4. Then, load the file in a GUI text editor and copy and paste to an
   Amazon review.


== Publishing at Lulu.com

1. Translate to LibreOffice .odt::

       $ rst2odt.py book_reviews01.txt book_reviews01.odt

2. Edit ``book_reviews01.odt`` in LibreOffice.  Use the Page tab in menu
   item Format/Page...  to change the following:

   - Width: 6"
   - Height: 9"
   - All borders: 0.75"

3. Add header and footer:

   - Header: "Book reviews: a collection" -- centered
   - Footer: Page n -- centered

4. Add page breaks: (1) after the title page, (2) after the table
   of contents.

5. Right click on the table of contents and do ``Update
   Index/Table``.

6. Use the ``File/Export to PDF`` menu item to create PDF.


== Updating this repository

On quail, do:

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$ bzr ci
$ cd ~/a1/Bzr/Reviews
$ bzr serve
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On crow, do:

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$ cd ~/a1/Bzr/Reviews
$ bzr merge bzr://quail
$ bzr ci
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I can also do this update in the reverse direction, i.e. from the
repo on crow to that on quail, rather than from quail to crow.

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