Making a dust jacket from an art print of a weird maths shape
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- Опубликовано: 4 июн 2024
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Thanks so much to Paul Catherall who made these beautiful prints. www.paulcatherall.com
Main channel video about the Sydler Shape: • The shape that should ...
If you order Love Triangle on Waterstones you will not get the dust jacket but you can use the use the discount code 1+2+3+4+5+6=21 to get 21 percent off the already discounted price. www.waterstones.com/book/love...
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Filming and editing by Alex Genn-Bash 
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Matt finding every opportunity in this process to insert triangle numbers is hilarious and perfectly in-character
Matt should do a live stream of him signing every book
Someone should send Matt to negotiate for the government:
“We will give you 20% of our resource, at that price”
“How about 21% of them, cause triangles”
“You make good argument. Okay, 21%"
Perhaps he was involved in setting the VAT in the Netherlands, because our VAT rate for most things is 21%
@@nienke7713 Same in Belgium lmao. And the VAT for essential goods (or whatever you call them in English) is 6%
Might want to talk to John Green about the best way to sign that many. He has a system.
I got my pre-order in a few months ago. I can wait to receive it.
The postie just delivered my pre-pre-order book from 6th march, and I'm both disappointed that I received a red cover (291), and impressed that it means you pre-sold over 1,200 copies before i got my order in all the way back then, so Congratulations to you for the massive success in getting this book completed! :)
0:17 - It is my understanding (and I may well be totally wrong, hence my raising this as a clarification that may go in either direction) that a First Edition is NOT the same thing as the First Printing. If the presses are stopped and the books are shipped, but the printing-plates are put into storage, that's the First Printing (in my possibly totally-wrong thinking as of now). If later on the plates are retrieved from storage, re-mounted on the presses, and more books (each of which is as identical to any book from the First Printing as any First Printing book might be to any other First Printing book), that is still the First "Edition", referring to the fact that no new EDITORIAL work has been done. It's not a new EDITion. ("Editorial work" for this discussion includes proofreading the printing-plates to make sure they match the author's submitted text, and making choices about how to fill the top and bottom margins (page-numbers, book-title, chapter-title, and the positions relative to the paper of all of those), and whether or not margins contain a decorative border, and whether the pages have, newspaper-style, more than one column of text with or without ornament in the gutters between columns, etc..) So the Second Printing of the First Edition re-uses the same plates with no discretion over layout. If the plates get disassembled, lost, intentionally discarded, dissolved or melted for re-use of the material, and sales warrant printing more, then the whole process of translating the author's submitted text into printing-plates has to be redone, and an entirely new set of choices about layout of the pages has to be made. Then THAT would be the First Printing of the Second Edition, as opposed to merely the next Printing of the First Edition. That's my current understanding (which may well warrant correction) at the time when I typed this.
I think the distinction is being eroded with electronic processing. There are no plates to put into storage -- it's a PDF file that gets set-up _in situ_ inside the press. The company will naturally use the latest, current PDF when they make more. I think it would be really hard to get them to use a specific edition instead.
I could be wrong-- the technology for Direct Imaging Offset Printing was just beginning to appear when I was working in the industry in the '90's. He said that 10,000 was a rather large run, so we're looking at a step up from the super-laser printers but not the biggest capacity web presses.
I just looked it up, and it sounds like the more-normal run (a few thousand, not ten thousand) was right on the border of whether to go DI or traditional offset. But... even with "traditional" printing, the Compute-to-Plate technology is used and they *do not* save the plates after use. A subsequent print run will start from the digital copy again. "Physical plates can be cumbersome to store and are susceptible to damage, oxidation, and wear over time. Storing and handling them properly requires space and resources."
@@JohnDlugoszIn the digital age, one could argue that as long as the same PDF is used without any changes, then it's the same edition, and when the PDF gets changed, then that's a new edition, and that way you could still have multiple print runs from the same edition.
That said, I also think that the first edition is likely to have only one print run as it's fairly common to find some mistakes after that first printing that will be fixed before future print runs.
I can't wait for it to arrive! Excited about the special edition dust covers. That was a really cool idea and I love how you worked special numbers into everything.
I am very excited to receive my ridiculous object that will sit on a shelt forever as I read the ebook version 👌
Man, DSG is a pain to work through if you use any kind of internet security apps.
still, after enabling dozends of things, it finally worked!! Yay!
glad to have the third signed book with errors!
now i only need one more to have a 2x2 parker sqare of books.
.... or if Matt is VERY BORED, we can get 6 more books, to make a full parker sqare of books!
Matt, I bought a book in the early 1990s and was so protective of the dust cover that I put it away safely until last year when I had it laminated and then put it back on the book after more than 30 years. Dust covers are special.
This is incredible. Thanks Matt for showing what the Dust Covers look like. I know I’ve preordered so at least I know I’m getting either the red or Yellow one
Pre-ordered my copy. This will be my first, first edition. Very excited!
pre-order a while ago! can't wait to read it! Loved Humble Pi, it got me into reading more math related books
Put my pre-order in. Thanks Matt! 👍💪✌
Pre-ordered from Maths Gear. Thanks for the reminder!
If we pre-ordered months ago, do we get the new dust jacket? Is there a way to find out our place in the queue?
5:00 I think this means you do.
I think I remember seeing something about dust jackets when I pre-ordered months ago so I guess so?
I ordered back in early march I have been waiting for july to get this I am so execited
I preordered my copy from the States the day they went up. Shipping doubling the cost hurt, but a Parker signature and special cover is worth it. Very excited to see which cover I get!
pre-ordered from Florida. Oof that shipping being damn near the cost of the book, but signed + special jacket = WORTH EVERY PENNY
Waterstones are funny. You automatically get 20% if you pre-order right now. Entering your discount code saves another 36p. Which, yes, is a triangle number!
And no, I am not complaining that they claim to give you 20% when it's actually 19.5%, because not only is £19.88 not a nice number to sell a book for, but 25 is not a triangle number.
"if you preorder now you can get these special dust jackets that are already 2/3s out of stock"
Damn, what a bummer, giving me fomo for something I've literally already missed...
I'm so tempted to pre-order to get this special edition dust-jacket, but the cost to ship to the US is almost as much as the book itself (+21.35)
Does anyone know of any ways to find out what position in the queue you are? In turn which of the types you are going to get?
You should put spots on the crazy sydler shapes so they look like they're supposed to be dice. Not that they could be rolled, since some of the faces are convex or even inside -- but people will wonder if it's supposed to be a higher-dimensional dice or a different way of picking a face or what.
Bonus: actually do that. Along with making a cardboard version of the classic Sydler shape. Hey, it's a lot easier with an actual one already existing to look at!
I once wrote down every number from 1 to 3737 and it took all day so good luck Matt!
I really want a 1st edition signed copy, let's hope this time it gets through german customs, unlike the A Problem Squared 1-million commemorative plate, which I sadly never got....
When is the actual book release date?
Don't worry. Mind Your Decision did a video on that coin puzzle 8 years before Veritasium
2:19 casually name-dropping
Can't remember if i actually pre-ordered last year, and can't find any confirmation emails, should i have received one? Maybe i get two now. Hopefully in different color
1:02 fyi Derek knows about this now. (Tis is Origami Alice)
What is this book about, more in detail? The description says nothing on the website.
certain to be a best seller
No problem. I'll buy another first ed if it makes you feel better.
Ok, i have a pre-order in already from the secret page from months ago, and another one in just now. Hopefully this means i got in line to fit into two different color and shape covers
I didn't see the box set.
Too bad you guys had to leave the EU. Ordering stuff from the UK is a massive hassle now :(
If you ever want to misgender anyone, it's gotta be yourself. Nice work, Matt.
Sorry, bad eyes here-Kindle on my TV is a better choice for me. Thanks! #FeedTheAlgorithm
not long
If you just want to read it, ask your local library to buy a copy. They probably will, unless they’re too busy with an existential battle against transphobes.
I wish you luck with the release but the usa art is worse
Aren't photos of coins fair use?
Fair use is the US law; the UK has fair dealing which is different. Also, it wouldn't even be fair use in the US, actually; all works created by US government employees as part of their official duties are public domain, so no one holds the copy rights and thus there's no need for fair use.
Matt misgendering himself and apologising is so wholesome
My headcanon is that Matt is trans.
A new trans icon emerges (babadook style)
Hey Matt you legend, I'll buy new book when you tell me what the intentional mistakes in humble Pi. I couldn't figure out