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JJGarsch wrote:
and only recently did a photo of the set (edge on) appear. Any subscriber with wits intact would want to see examples of typography and page design before spending $1500, but no such photos have been posted.


Heya, JJ --how ya been?

Try the scroll down arrow at the bottom of the edge-on pic window; there are a few more pictures down there you may have missed. Tho I agree there should be more, and higher-res. Not my job (in the sense that I don't have the authority to make it happen --nor the source material; "our" VE set resides at Butler Public Library, and we've never seen/touched it, tho the librarian updates us when new ones arrive), but I'll see if I can encourage in that direction.

As can anybody else so encourage --Leah's update allows comments.

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Post Re: SPLIT THREAD: The Virginia Edition etc.
Geo - you're correct, there is a (low-res) text photo of the first page of a WHP introduction; unfortunately, scrolling up and down using those little arrowheads is extremely slow, at least when using Safari or Firefox. A high-res left-right page spread of a sample of Heinlein's work, showing the running heads, would be a useful addition. But if the VE is really going to try to attract subscribers through this site, priority should be given to easier scrolling and other tech issues, as well as a proper edit of the text, which (as noted earlier) remains amusingly amateurish (e.g., the page describing the quality control process, http://www.virginiaedition.com/quality.aspx).

Sean's blog entries allowed comments too. Whether Leah will be more responsive than Sean to comments remains to be seen. (I and others have commented more than once during the past year about the evident need for an erratum list to conclude the set, with no response from Sean.)


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JJGarsch wrote:
as well as a proper edit of the text, which (as noted earlier) remains amusingly amateurish (e.g., the page describing the quality control process, http://www.virginiaedition.com/quality.aspx).



That page has been corrected. I think there will be more pics at higher-res as an optional link in the nearish future as well, but we'll see.

Feel free to send emails to webmaster[at]virginiaedition.com if there are any other typos you notice that need correcting. Content and design issues have to be directed to Leah, however. The "Contact" button still has Sean's address on it, but it'll still reach Leah until changed (which will likely be shortly as well).

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Thu Jan 28, 2010 3:27 pm
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Btw, JJ --I've got the right guy, don't I? You and I spent some quality time together at Toronto WC?

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Nope, sorry - I'm sure we've never met. What was the "Toronto WC"?


Fri Jan 29, 2010 8:22 pm
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Torcon3, Toronto Worldcon in 2003.

Sorry for the misidentification then. I thought you were a Heinleiner friend I made at that convention. A gentleman who was a prosecutor in the south and then not too long after was called up to serve with the National Guard.

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Huh. According to my archived emails, JJ, you are that guy. . .or share his handle. That latter happens on the internet --Sam Kramer?. Or perhaps my retiring personality, forgettable physique, and 6.5 years explain it . . .

Best. Geo

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I chose my handle semi-randomly (having first encountered James J. Garsch in his Washington, DC offices, just down the street from the Replica Lincoln Memorial, in my junior high school library circa 1968-69). It's just a coincidence, honest.


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Ah, well it happens on the internet. Sorry for the confusion.

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georule wrote:
I think there will be more pics at higher-res as an optional link in the nearish future as well, but we'll see.


So let it be written. . .

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