My Righteous ANGER at an Online Book Printer! (Lulu.com)

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3 жыл бұрын

This is an update about the "reprinting classical and medieval works" project, well, really just my issues with the printer and web store "app." I didn't even go into all the Javascript code they want me to copy and paste to make this all work. The actual content of the project, the books, is going great though!
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@Sharp931 3 жыл бұрын

Lulu wants you to take notes on those blank pages

@josephbarlow183 3 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@superfoxbat 3 жыл бұрын

@@josephbarlow183 a thousand pages thick book you got a free of 250 pages notes. They must be generous

@CelineAdobea 2 жыл бұрын

😆

@ahmedazhar05 2 жыл бұрын

😂😂

@InventorZahran Жыл бұрын

"This page intentionally left blank."

@dandan-gf4jk 3 жыл бұрын

Finally my favorite content creator decided to use his eceleb status to attempt extortion from a private company. BASED

@NuevaBestia 3 жыл бұрын

latin chads rise up

@stumbling 3 жыл бұрын

We should all have that power. Maybe we need to create a crypto token for corporate mob justice? Earn tokens by joining campaigns of terror against corrupt SJW and otherwise incompetant grabbler corporations. New tokens are mined and transferred through a proof of petition function. Call it MOB. The organizer would put down a stake on the campaign from their personal MOB wallet. The bigger the stake, the more MOB each petitioner who joins the campaign will receive but also the more petitioners are required to join the campaign before the organizer makes a profit. The idea of the organizer's stake is to discourage frivolous campaigns by giving the organizer something to lose. This was a joke but now I'm scared it will happen. One of those things that could (if done right) be a tremendous force for good but you know it will be implemented in the most degenerate, communist fashion and destroy lives.

@MrAlienAssassin 3 жыл бұрын

Default Runescape character attempts to develop construction skill by building library in his home, but bugs in the new release make it impossible

@fuzziestsock 3 жыл бұрын

Just wait until this turns into another Falador massacre.

@smittywerbenjagermanjensen1051 3 жыл бұрын

haha you said default runescape character haha

@Jupiter__001_ 3 жыл бұрын

I see a book entitled HYPERBOREA behind you. Video on why the Earth is hollow and Antarctica is the home of ancient psychic space-Aryan giants when? Lol

@ionichi 3 жыл бұрын

When he gets his own show on Giam TV?

@zacharystreeter1965 3 жыл бұрын

history says Luke will start printing his own books

@mateuspokemon01 3 жыл бұрын

Can't quite remember where I've heard it before. Is it from the uncle Ted's manifesto?

@sk8sbest 3 жыл бұрын

Luke really following in bezos' footsteps. Inspiring!

@andljoy 3 жыл бұрын

I hope in 20 years we have a based and red pilled amazon alternative :D.

@Mrmaverickism 3 жыл бұрын

Fist he stole the look .. then the market share

@zaccstacc4568 3 жыл бұрын

@@Mrmaverickism then luke steals your girl

@pkREX24 3 жыл бұрын

can't wait for him to expand into out of production technologies like wooden spears and chairs

@AnalyticMinded 3 жыл бұрын

It's funny. Many, many years ago I wanted to do something like this. I was studying Latin and wanted to print very old Latin books that were only in e-book or HTML format. I had my eye on Jan Comenius' "Janua Linguarum". I knew a bit of LaTeX as well, and I actually started transcribing and correcting typos, etc. to produce a PDF and then a physical book (for personal use). But the task was way beyond me. Kudos, Luke: what you are doing is no mean task!

@trailblazingfive 3 жыл бұрын

Next episode boomer builds a Gutenberg's printing press in his shed...

@metaphysicalconifercone182 3 жыл бұрын

Can we get more LaTeX tutorials for making books? I'd really like to see how you typeset that whole Proto-encyclopedia.

@juryrigging 3 жыл бұрын

I'd like more groff ones. Can't wait until Luke decides to make his own macros, I think the groff people want more young blood playing with the internals of the language.

@juryrigging 3 жыл бұрын

@Linus Man The groff people. Rumour has it they live in caves and feed on unsuspecting latex users.

@bashisobsolete.pythonismyn6321 3 жыл бұрын

Luke, i worked in a print shop with offset press, xerox, guillotine and binding. long time ago but i am acquainted with the process and some of its quirks. what you're attempting is much easier with a good, local print shop. ask me anything specific about paper, ink, cutting, binding, etc. let's get you prepared to deal directly with the printers.

@GhostofTradition 3 жыл бұрын

I think the benifit of this is print on demand, a local shop probably will only do bulk?

@bashisobsolete.pythonismyn6321 3 жыл бұрын

@@GhostofTradition terms like "print on demand" and "bulk" are vague. can you clarify?

@juryrigging 3 жыл бұрын

@@bashisobsolete.pythonismyn6321 Print on demand is one book printed for every order made, so no surplus. I'm guessing bulk in this case refers to print runs of X number of books that then need to be stored.

@logsupermulti3921 3 жыл бұрын

@@bashisobsolete.pythonismyn6321 Print on Demand is pretty specific. Basically instead of the company printing say 5,000 copies of a book and then trying to sell them all, if a customer wants to purchase a book the company will just print a single copy and send it out, doing this for ever person who wants a particular book. This is great for smaller authors who normally wouldn't be able to sell thousands of bulk copies.

@JohnSmith-cz2zq 3 жыл бұрын

@@bashisobsolete.pythonismyn6321 print on demand: each time you get an order you print the book, bulk: you print each book a certain number of time first. You keep them in storage. And send them when you get an order. The biggest difference is investment and storage. For print on demand you dont need storage as all the book you print are already sold (you expedite them as soon as they are printed) also you dont need to invest personnal money as you get the money first and then you print. Whereas for bulk you invest to print and then get the money when someone buys a book from you inventory.

@ItachiUchiha-ns1il 3 жыл бұрын

Uncle Luke putting out videos on consecutive days 👍

@hidde1626 3 жыл бұрын

Proper content creator

@TheOpaldes 3 жыл бұрын

Maybe get in touch with a local printing company and ask them how you could create a POD pipeline. Setup a shop and accumulate orders and send your orders every day per cron job to them at the morning. Maybe they can even handle the logistics?

@user-pf9rf3sr1q 3 жыл бұрын

"Man pages aren't real because they are not printed in a book" - Unaboomer

@pedroprobst5230 3 жыл бұрын

One thing I miss about going to university pre-CUCK-19 was being able to print stuff very cheaply. I'm willing to buy a printer though, and if anyone here has a recommendation of a cheap and economical model I'd be thankful. My needs are at least ~20 pages/week. Can be an older model because I don't need soy tech.

@freesoftwareextremist8119 3 жыл бұрын

@@pedroprobst5230 Try to find a used laser printer somewhere. Most of them work fine with Linux, you don't even need any drivers, they just use PostScript. I've got a Lexmark for 50€ that works perfectly.

@pedroprobst5230 3 жыл бұрын

@@freesoftwareextremist8119 Thanks.

@s8wc3 3 жыл бұрын

@@pedroprobst5230 You can often get nice printers from businesses selling off their old equipment for almost nothing or free. I got a free Laserjet from a doctors office and the toner was still half full

@dasenase 3 жыл бұрын

@@pedroprobst5230 hp m402dne. Simple and fast

@Eyetrauma 3 жыл бұрын

Situations like these are why I can never wrap my head around the concept of drop-shipping. I've seen so many companies be completely negligent in doing QC that I couldn't imagine staking my reputation on it.

@aayushnp5430 3 жыл бұрын

luke has finally channeled his inner tai lopez

@LukeSmithxyz 3 жыл бұрын

Weren't his bookshelves in his garage for some reason? lol Not good for durability.

@aayushnp5430 3 жыл бұрын

@@LukeSmithxyz Your cabin in the woods is close enough haha

@mateuspokemon01 3 жыл бұрын

Printing books is bloated. Just write them by hand

@miguelbustamante5271 3 жыл бұрын

cuneiform moment

@8w73 3 жыл бұрын

Just create your own books and don't write them, just say them out loud

@camaradamanuel5025 3 жыл бұрын

Paper is bloat and ink is gay. Use rocks and mud to write your books

@mateuspokemon01 3 жыл бұрын

@@8w73 Agree

@Assault_Butter_Knife 3 жыл бұрын

Printing books? That's doing the same thing as protestants did! Major cringe!

@cardd1577 3 жыл бұрын

By next year Luke would have built an alternative to amazon that is based&redpill, totally radtrad and where you will be able to only buy books in Latin.

@altrogeruvah 3 жыл бұрын

Why am I invested on a rant whose subject I have 0 interest in? It's good, I'm learning things

@megaoyi1Wins 3 жыл бұрын

I'M SO HAPPY YOU HAVE RETURNED! I read your article on your website and I'm glad you have solved the problems. I find your perspective really interesting and many times your videos have inspired me to continue through though times, stop being lazy and start getting things done and caring about what really matters. Thank you!

@michaelcorsetti7313 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the book recommendation, just bought Hammer of the Patriot

@faizanahmad5464 3 жыл бұрын

I'm a simple man, i see Marcus Aurelius' meditation, i click the video. Anyway lol, glad to know you're also into stoicism

@ryancompton3907 3 жыл бұрын

We’re on the verge of a new renaissance! Love the vids/work you do!

@abba4468 3 жыл бұрын

Excelente ideal Luke. Es muy valioso lo que haces!

@eddiewramos 3 жыл бұрын

>he hasn't taken the clay tablet pill

@ChucksSEADnDEAD 3 жыл бұрын

Based and Ea-nasir-pilled.

@matj12 3 жыл бұрын

Write a system for automatic fulfilling of orders as a one-liner in bash. (Edit: not bash, POSIX-compliant shell)

@shamon351 3 жыл бұрын

I like the "modern french" book that seems so old ! ! ;)

@DavidJBurbridge 3 жыл бұрын

Who knows. Maybe starting your own printing business could be a good move in your life. The initial outlay would be high but you're well known enough now that you can be the go-to guy KZfaq for printing short runs or print on demand of specialist books.

@barneyjmusic Жыл бұрын

This is truly incredible! Unfortunately, it. hasn't left me any closer to finding a self-publishing source, but somehow I feel like I gained something greater.

@LordDevi 3 жыл бұрын

Man there are some amazing books on that shelf! A few I haven't heard of that look really interesting too.

@Ryan-rn3sq 3 жыл бұрын

I want to smell the insides of those books behind you so bad.

@seronymus 3 жыл бұрын

A whole library of Reimu armpits.

@Ryan-rn3sq 3 жыл бұрын

@@seronymus Imagine the smell.

@alephanull1953 3 жыл бұрын

Ahh, I see your a man of culture

@LloydLynx 3 жыл бұрын

See, he gets it.

@theplasticdeer2612 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@christopherlewis1948 3 жыл бұрын

I spent over 20 years in the print industry. The PDF workflow has been a joke for as long as I can remember (what started out as a desire to standardize never properly materialized), and the entire move to the crap quality with online production/distribution may be cheap but is worthless for expectations beyond that same cheap crap.

@Gooberpatrol66 3 жыл бұрын

Put that cursed Marcus Aurelius misprint in a time capsule to confuse historians.

@seronymus 3 жыл бұрын

This was worth pulling the all-nighter. I didn't even know there was a video scheduled. I get rewarded with Boomer ranting about old books. I win.

@jorionedwards 3 жыл бұрын

Jokes on you. I say this a day ago on Peertube.

@seronymus 3 жыл бұрын

@@jorionedwards I'm not part of the Luke fan club yet... Inshallah I shall acquire the dakimakura.

@dmsalomon 3 жыл бұрын

I've ordered books using amazon pod before and it was super quick, and they came out nice. They might be evil, but they get the job done.

@edgarardon3154 3 жыл бұрын

great way to effect change!!

@allegoricalstatue 3 жыл бұрын

Besides all the issues, those books look quite lovely. I will definitely be purchasing _all_ of them, fyi. Hope you get the issues sorted out. Sounds pretty frustrating.

@icuddledyourimouto768 3 жыл бұрын

Being a european Lulu-user (or how you could call it, Luser) I have had no problems and read that it is very location-dependant. All european things are printed in Poland, idk where in the US.

@stumbling 3 жыл бұрын

You could probably autograph that _Meditations/Hammer of the Patriot_ and auction it off as a rare collectible.

@robertross3795 3 жыл бұрын

Hey Luke, have you considered going to Antelope Hill? They're B&R

@desktopmonologues 3 жыл бұрын

I've used Lulu at least since 2007, and I was always satisfied with the end products. I've created several books, and recently even a photo book, and it all looked fine. I understand your frustrations (especially with the empty pages), and I don't have the answer for that, but I personally never had a problem with them. In my opinion, they were always the best choice for me. Maybe that says a lot about POD market, I don't know.

@lauranicoleofficial_ Жыл бұрын

so why do they make you order an actual copy of your work...esp if its books...because that was not what i planned.......they seem sketchy and dont wanna help.....

@eddiejeffrys1985 6 ай бұрын

Yeah myself and the rpg community have printed thousands and I've only ever heard "because i didn't format it right" as the reason something was wrong.

@HolyMarmot 3 жыл бұрын

I wish I could help you out. This is a great great project and I'm rooting for you to succeed in it.

@lilithlovelace1556 3 жыл бұрын

Using both PDFs/Ebooks and real books is the truly based solution.

@calliopelove Жыл бұрын

i've heard a lot of lulu bad reviews and horror stories so i've stayed away. then i hear the shipping times are really way longer than would be desired for today. i wish i could find a company that did POD at great prices without all these issues. i'm still looking. vervante is one option but they're a little higher in price, i think they do a better job though. idk, i haven't tested yet but they're one i'm still considering

@HimerPr0 3 жыл бұрын

I would like to hear how Luke is schooled on about adobe reader.

@rayment2574 3 жыл бұрын

Luke what font and point size do you use for these books? You should make a typesetting video for LaTeX.

@hidde1626 3 жыл бұрын

Makes no sense. They should at least give you a refund.

@djdjukic 3 жыл бұрын

Boomer slams eBooks, claims only paper books are real, then complains about how they didn't print his QR code for Bitcoin donations

@cavejohnson6169 3 жыл бұрын

Seems like a conversion problem since the pdf needs to be adjusted before printing and pdf to docx messes with a lot of formatting. I've been doing this book printing for a while I edited the source pdf to standard A5 so every book I want to print is consistent and no further editing is required. No idea about the cover tho I just put title in blank white.

@n4p3r0 3 жыл бұрын

Yoo, the one and only Cave Johnson. Can you believe it?

@user-lh2gd4gu5b 3 жыл бұрын

GNU/Linux user: Man, I don't believe in ebooks, I can't read from screen Reads thousands of lines of man pages.

@marciomaiajr 3 жыл бұрын

This is kinda "in the woods" rant video. But the trees look different.

@salvatoreshiggerino6810 3 жыл бұрын

I've been wanting to buy Etymologiae since you first mentioned the project. I hope you find a decent printer.

@doomtext 3 жыл бұрын

Luke! Try Imperial Press and Antelope Hill, Yarvin recommends them both.

@simozonelayer 2 жыл бұрын

I've made photo-books with them and every now and then there's a messy print or the colours are messed up or they change the paper weight. They are quite inconsistent and like you said, very little quality control.

@badpotato 3 жыл бұрын

dude is so angry that he is smiling.. haha

@alicekohler9405 3 жыл бұрын

Based.printing

@Hvandersleyen 3 жыл бұрын

HE IS BACK!

@hmagellanlinux307 3 жыл бұрын

Where do you get your Latin sources for these books? I know that wikisource and Project Gutenberg have some Latin texts, but I've seen citations for some old works in some places (not this video) and then been unable to find digital copies of them. Also, would you consider printing any of the works of Emperor Julian? There are collected versions of those floating around in digital format.

@LukeSmithxyz 3 жыл бұрын

thelatinlibrary.com/ penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/home.html and others. There are some which I'm semi-manually transcribing from partially pdftotexted .pdfs.

@user-nb7gp4fk7j 3 жыл бұрын

I think you can also try the Library Genesis and archive.org as well.

@ivailopetrov2827 3 жыл бұрын

Hey Luke I saw Atlas Shrugged in the background, when is the video essay coming?

@mateuspokemon01 3 жыл бұрын

Don't be mad, Luke, they just wanted you to read a based and red pilled book! The Hammer of the Patriot!

@elliecreates9348 2 жыл бұрын

me realizing 6 minutes in that they have a lord of the rings book in the back round

@Alekov_ 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome Luke you should start a reading community.

@LearnEnglishWithJess Жыл бұрын

Oh wow. I'm looking into which company to print on demand with... I've been highly considering going with Lulu, but I'm not sure anymore...

@dasenase 3 жыл бұрын

Didn't have this issue printing books from Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat.

@abcdef4328 3 жыл бұрын

BTW, Lulu's founder and CEO is Red Hat co-founder Bob Young.

@choncoocho1392 3 жыл бұрын

Please do this ! I've been trying to find someone to print mitchell heinsman's suicide note.

@pyzmark 3 жыл бұрын

On topic but a little off topic: what's the binding like? Is it nice case binding with individual quires (I think modern publishers use a different term) that have been stitched together? Or is it a hundred+ sheets that are glued together at the edge?

@icuddledyourimouto768 3 жыл бұрын

oh and the best way is probably talking to local printshops and if they offer binding.

@elliott_hunter0510 10 ай бұрын

I just print out short stories from ppl on Wattpad or other short stories, and I use LULU so I can have a hard copy because I like reading from a book. I have only ordered 4 but they have been good. The only thing obviously is that if I don’t like the sizing of the words I have to go back in and make them smaller or bigger or if I notice typos I have to go and change them (I usually don’t, I just like having a hard copy, I’m not selling them lol) all in all I like them but I can totally see that if you publish your own books you want it to look good :)

@BikZom 3 жыл бұрын

The problem you have is that you used big company that has automated workflow process which not always work if your files are not properly prepared for print. Contact your local print shop they will do it 100 times better.

@BikZom 3 жыл бұрын

btw small print shops are based and mostly run by the families where you're treated like an actual person.

@ronalddonaghe3674 2 жыл бұрын

I suspect on the blank pages that you typeset your book with Adobe In Design...It's a hokey program.

@captainjack6010 3 жыл бұрын

Luke "Printer goes brrrr" Smith

@mrsansiverius2083 3 жыл бұрын

Old man yells at printer

@Charsh392 3 жыл бұрын

Have you looked into things other than shopify? are there alternatives compatible with lulu? Im wondering if you get same issues doing manual versus shopify. Personally I dont know much about this just trying to give ideas. Wondering if theres some wonky stuff going on with formatting reformatting like with what you mentioned having to get isbn and do through shop yada yada

@THX-1138 3 жыл бұрын

ive been looking to buy goethe in german or german english dual script but i cant find it anywhere if you print his works i will definitely buy them

@leothegeek4432 3 жыл бұрын

I like this

@blackoutgo2597 3 жыл бұрын

Cool, id buy a couple books XD

@lphoogenboom 3 жыл бұрын

Luke will never date a Lulu again after this.

@greenmug6436 3 жыл бұрын

I haven't read a physical book in a long time. ebooks are my life

@desktorp 3 жыл бұрын

RIP eyeballs

@user-nb7gp4fk7j 3 жыл бұрын

@@desktorp have you ever heard about the specialised e-reader devices?

@daa3417 3 жыл бұрын

@@user-nb7gp4fk7j Have you ever used a book for reference and put your fingers in other pages to quickly flip between them? Can’t do that with ebooks.

@greenmug6436 3 жыл бұрын

@@user-nb7gp4fk7j I read books on my smartphone

@greenmug6436 3 жыл бұрын

@@daa3417 flipping pages is definitely much faster with ebooks than books.

@existextinct 3 жыл бұрын

Is it possible to view and order a list of the books you've ordered from them? Do they retain and sell copies of other people's requests?

@edehe2370 3 жыл бұрын

I know Bronze Age mindset is hidden somewhere amongst the books behind.

@LukeSmithxyz 3 жыл бұрын

It actually isn't. I've never read that.

@penmonker12 3 жыл бұрын

@@LukeSmithxyz sad!

@asamanthinketh5944 3 жыл бұрын

Bronze Age is based God showed up in bronze Age

@bashisobsolete.pythonismyn6321 3 жыл бұрын

serious question: in the deep south, are special measures needed to prevent books from turn mouldy?

@porky1118 3 жыл бұрын

12:55 "It prints a square" Maybe it does not support your Linux newlines?

@desktorp 3 жыл бұрын

that's gnu+linux newlines

@dustyloops8355 3 жыл бұрын

gnulines

@kenkelvin4023 3 жыл бұрын

Imagine using a company that paid 40k$ for a stupid domain, and excepting their product to be good and decent

@smit17xp 3 жыл бұрын

How u Ctrl+F or grep on physical book

@gorillamunch1966 3 жыл бұрын

Using the index my guy

@romanista77 Жыл бұрын

Received a book with the wrong cover from Lulu. They never replied to me after a few tries at emailing them. It's a nice end product when it works though. I've ordered a lot from them in recent years. But, quality control and customers service isn't something they put much into...

@harrycox6303 3 жыл бұрын

Did you try writing your books using Adobe Acrobat though?

@bbseal6174 3 жыл бұрын

Luke, have you heard of tumblar house ? Charles Coulombe publishes through them I believe. They may be willing to publish some of your stuff, especially the Catholic stuff.

@remline 3 жыл бұрын

You might investigate the PDF/X format, which is designed for print publishing. Unfortunately, I cannot find any open source tools that write PDF/X. And it is unclear to me whether PDF/X is actually necessary, as long as fonts and images are properly embedded in a normal PDF.

@fjrjf123 3 жыл бұрын

Hey Luke if you’re taking requests please bring Om det tragiske by Peter Zapffe and Die Philosophie der Erlösung by Mainländer back into print

@davidireland1766 2 жыл бұрын

I use Plain TeX never had a problem.

@ixp8605 3 жыл бұрын

Book review on Hyperborea when?

@spewbert 3 жыл бұрын

I getted John Seymour's The Self Sufficient Life and How to Live it btw. Thank you for having a personnel library posted on your site. Nothing personell, kid.