So the time has almost arrived when my book that I’ve been talking about for some time now is done. I can honestly say that as far as I can tell it’s finished and ready to be uploaded to my site. The only reason that I’m going to hold off for a little while is that I am known for missing things if I move too fast. So I think I’ll give myself a few days before I go over it again and then if everything looks as it should I’ll officially say it’s done.

I’ve also created a short, 3-minute video that just flips through the first, thirty or so pages. I put little notes about the book as the video plays so if you’d like to see what I’ve been working on, watch the video. At this point I can’t tell if anything that I’ve done is any good. Sometimes I think it’s great, but most of the time I think my designs are at best boring. I just don’t know anymore. I will say that it was fun to work on it, but it’s even better to be finished with it. I guess that will make it about 8-days from now.

Probably some things to be aware of about the book is that I was unsure which direction I was going to go when I started. Actually, I started it as a regular book and had no desire to do an interactive PDF or an e-publications. That changed though when I decided that I wanted some interactivity added, so I decided to go with the format that I was most familiar with, the interactive PDF.

I was online doing some research on interactive PDFs when I read an article how they were becoming obsolete and if you wanted something interactive the future was in e-publications, or epub. So I decided that I would convert my interactive PDF to an epub. I guess what I’m trying to show is that I couldn’t make up my mind and let a lot of ‘project creep’ change the whole idea of the book. I started with no movies, high resolution images, no interactivity at all to the complete opposite. I think I’m happy with the result though.