After entirely too long troubleshooting I figured out the problem was this one line. Apparently if a Nook runs across ANY malformed CSS it refuses to parse the entire CSS file. Forgetting to delete that one semicolon in the middle of the line invalidated all the styles for the entire book.
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Hobby writing update: cover designed, EPUB file generated, transferred to Nook.
Nook takes one look at my CSS and says "no thanks I'm just going to apply all my own styles instead."
Looks like I'm going to have to go back and add a whole shitload of '!important' to get it to actually respect my design choices.
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Little life hack: if you ever want a little quiet music with no lyrics to put on while you concentrate but you don't want to feed into the whole ad-driven attention economy, look up any classical composer on Wikipedia and there will be a few public domain recordings of their works.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Elgar
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So I exported the book to EPUB and then, with a ton or regex, fixed all the garbage HTML that LibreOffice Writer spit out. It's ... uh ... done, I guess. Save for cover art, which is a pretty big undertaking.
Oh, yeah, it also needs a title.
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Hobby writing update: I think it's finally time to actually "publish" something and get it out there. I'm just kind of hoping that speaking it into the void here will compel me to actually do it.
That's still a project to undertake, though. I want to give it a final editing pass and also change some location names but then after that I have to figure out how to make a decent EPUB file and design a cover. Once all that's done I'll probably chuck it up on my website.
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Had a four-hour retreat (+1 hour break in the middle) at work today so yeah, I'm mentally checked out for the rest of the day.
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The reason for this really bland cover art is obvious, btw - it's so that the cover is easy to read even in a small thumbnail. Compare with Juxtaposition in the top left, which definitely does not read well in this format.
EDIT: Also, likely, the difference between working with Random House vs .. uh ... Open Road Integrated Media? Boy that just sounds fake.
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Currently reading Six Crystal Princesses by Piers Anthony. It's good so far if you like Xanth, which is a tongue-in-cheek fantasy world that's entirely based on puns.
What I hate is this printing. It's hardcover and it's big (about 6" by 9"/16 cm by 23 cm), which is a pretty clumsy size for a novel. And this cover is definitely a product of its time - a flat, bland collection of same-size text over a VERY generic and un-fun painting of a sexy woman (Vinia is like 13 in the story) standing still
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When people say the Nintendo Switch hasn't had a price cut.
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Tonight I'm listening to the album "The Beginning Stages Of ..." by the Polyphonic Spree. Hugely nostalgic album for me. It's what I was listening to on my Zune on a crisp, clear November day while I sat outside my new apartment waiting for my then girlfriend, now wife, to arrive for our first night in our own place.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGHYul6pOKE
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I think the most common phrase I've heard at a doctor's office has got to be "Sorry, our computer system is down."
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I don't think I've ever had a cat fall asleep on my chest like this. #caturday
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I wonder how much of seasonal affective disorder is due to an endless onslaught of pharmaceutical ads showing smiling active people doing fun outdoor activities in sunny weather.
EDIT: I realize this is unrelatable content for many either because they live in a place that doesn't have pharmaceutical ads or they would never pay for cable TV.
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God I really wish it was feasible to just take the winter off and rest.
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