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The book is entitled Discoverii and is effectively a dictionary of commemorative plant names with information about the author (the person named in the plant) ranging from a few words to two or three pages for individuals who were more active or well connected. In all around 625,000 words, originally typed manually by my late father in 1972/3.
I have it on my iPhone, in iBooks format, fully searchable, in fact that was what I referenced for some of my comments here. What I need to do is incorporate the illustrations and publish, my big holdback has been how to publish it. I was intending originally to use Kindle, but then Apple introduced iBooks. The book relies heavily on styles of formatting, a bit like a dictionary. I have issues with using a publishing service like Kindle and iBooks but hope to publish it from my own website, which I now have a decent hosting for, thanks to Chris.
https://www.lcn.com
This was why I needed an up to date version of In-Design because publishing on 'tinternet is a fast moving target and formats and protocols are changing rapidly, especially on the security side with many browsers set to ignore or reject 'insecure' websites. This means the content and the site itself need to be well up to recent standards.
Monetising is is less important than getting it published; using the Kindle or Apple platforms seems to me absurd, they take 30% of any revenue, then the US IRS take 30% of what's left. Then you have to explain it all to UK Customs and Revenue, the (considerable) allowable expenses incurred fall well outside the permitted timeframe so I can't offset any tax against incurred expenses apart from perhaps the hosting. The administration effort just isn't worth the candle.
So, my intention is to publish in the form of a free website, a little like Roland Vinks pages. But to be honest I have been so busy with distractions over the last few years that no progress has been made for far too long. I keep adding to my photographs whenever I get a chance and this interesting tidbit in my last post has added another morsel of new information about Richard Salisbury which will be added to my notes but I have resolved not to add anything new to the text, except to correct any factual errors I might notice, until it is published, else it will be self perpetuating (if it isn't already...).
I am still alert to commemorative plant names but seem to be in something of a log jam at the moment. ...And time ticks by.
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Robert.