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General / Sometimes you just can't beat a good (physical) book
« on: January 24, 2019, 11:56:03 PM »
Hello, this is my first post.
It is important as my first post to share my appreciation and enormous thanks to all who worked on CAR in the past: sorry I do not know you personally but I guess a special thank you to Christopher Ober(vet).
I use my iPad when referencing the CAR and always wondered what it would be like to have a physical copy. I do not have a reliable colour printer at home and so never pursued this. I refound my love of Carcassonne over Christmas when my son and I started playing and so I finally decided to get CAR printed at a print shop. To save some cost, I undertook to thin the document down to 200 pages which meant losing the Reference Guide section and a few other bits. I managed it, and got it printed in A5 colour double-sided: another advantage of print shop is that they put a nice binding on it and card front/back cover.
It was a bit of a luxury item, and perhaps I should have done this in 2015 when CAR was hot of the press! I suspect as we get more extensions then keeping a traditional book format CAR becomes hard compared to wikipedia style Rules so perhaps CARv7.4 is like the Encyclopedia Brittanica.
Anyway, as my first post I thought I would share some photos and hope it makes Obervet and others feel like proud parents seeing their creation in the real world (well, photos of it anyway)!
It is important as my first post to share my appreciation and enormous thanks to all who worked on CAR in the past: sorry I do not know you personally but I guess a special thank you to Christopher Ober(vet).
I use my iPad when referencing the CAR and always wondered what it would be like to have a physical copy. I do not have a reliable colour printer at home and so never pursued this. I refound my love of Carcassonne over Christmas when my son and I started playing and so I finally decided to get CAR printed at a print shop. To save some cost, I undertook to thin the document down to 200 pages which meant losing the Reference Guide section and a few other bits. I managed it, and got it printed in A5 colour double-sided: another advantage of print shop is that they put a nice binding on it and card front/back cover.
It was a bit of a luxury item, and perhaps I should have done this in 2015 when CAR was hot of the press! I suspect as we get more extensions then keeping a traditional book format CAR becomes hard compared to wikipedia style Rules so perhaps CARv7.4 is like the Encyclopedia Brittanica.
Anyway, as my first post I thought I would share some photos and hope it makes Obervet and others feel like proud parents seeing their creation in the real world (well, photos of it anyway)!