{"id":451,"date":"2010-05-27T01:42:51","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T06:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=451"},"modified":"2010-05-26T17:53:02","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T22:53:02","slug":"publish-on-demand-fastpencil-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2010\/05\/publish-on-demand-fastpencil-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Publish on Demand &#8211; FastPencil Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p>My printed book from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastpencil.com\/\">FastPencil<\/a> is in hand. It took about three weeks for FastPencil to transform a PDF file to a paperback book. It is 6&#8243;x9&#8243; and 155 pages.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_452\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/jese.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-452\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-452\" title=\"jese\" src=\"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/jese-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"My Little Book in Hand\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-452\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My Little Book in Hand<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Lessons Learned:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10-point font is too small for my eyes<\/li>\n<li>I chose a creme paper instead of white, I wish I had chosen white<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I am happy with the result. These paperbacks (I bought ten copies) are like large business cards.The are easy to carry with me and hand to people I meet.<\/p>\n<p>This is a short book, but that is one of the main points. I wanted to write a short book on Systems Engineering. Most books on Systems Engineering are graduate-level textbooks. They are good, but they are longer than 500 pages, and practicing engineers and scientists don&#8217;t have time to read those.<\/p>\n<p>I have a few other short books that I may put into paperback form with FastPencil. Time will tell. I also have a long book that is a collection of 50+ fiction short stories that I wrote a couple of years ago. Time will tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips My printed book from FastPencil is in hand. It took about three weeks for FastPencil to transform a PDF file to a paperback book. It is 6&#8243;x9&#8243; and 155 pages. Lessons Learned: 10-point font is too small for my eyes I chose a creme paper instead of white, I wish I had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,31,58,5],"tags":[170,153,178,128],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-systems-thinking","category-image","category-systems","category-writing","tag-general-systems-thinking","tag-image","tag-systems","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions\/453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}