My Righteous ANGER at an Online Book Printer! (Lulu.com)

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This is an update about the "reprinting classical and medieval works" project, well, really just my issues with the printer and web store "app." I didn't even go into all the Javascript code they want me to copy and paste to make this all work. The actual content of the project, the books, is going great though!
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@dandan-gf4jk 3 года назад

Finally my favorite content creator decided to use his eceleb status to attempt extortion from a private company. BASED

@NuevaBestia 3 года назад

latin chads rise up

@stumbling 3 года назад

We should all have that power. Maybe we need to create a crypto token for corporate mob justice? Earn tokens by joining campaigns of terror against corrupt SJW and otherwise incompetant grabbler corporations. New tokens are mined and transferred through a proof of petition function. Call it MOB. The organizer would put down a stake on the campaign from their personal MOB wallet. The bigger the stake, the more MOB each petitioner who joins the campaign will receive but also the more petitioners are required to join the campaign before the organizer makes a profit. The idea of the organizer's stake is to discourage frivolous campaigns by giving the organizer something to lose. This was a joke but now I'm scared it will happen. One of those things that could (if done right) be a tremendous force for good but you know it will be implemented in the most degenerate, communist fashion and destroy lives.

@Sharp931 3 года назад

Lulu wants you to take notes on those blank pages

@josephbarlow183 3 года назад

Lmao

@superfoxbat 3 года назад

@@josephbarlow183 a thousand pages thick book you got a free of 250 pages notes. They must be generous

@CelineAdobea 3 года назад

😆

@ahmedazhar05 3 года назад

😂😂

@InventorZahran Год назад

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@Jupiter__001_ 3 года назад

I see a book entitled HYPERBOREA behind you. Video on why the Earth is hollow and Antarctica is the home of ancient psychic space-Aryan giants when? Lol

@ionichi 3 года назад

When he gets his own show on Giam TV?

@MrAlienAssassin 3 года назад

Default Runescape character attempts to develop construction skill by building library in his home, but bugs in the new release make it impossible

@fuzziestsock 3 года назад

Just wait until this turns into another Falador massacre.

@smittywerbenjagermanjensen1051 3 года назад

haha you said default runescape character haha

@sk8sbest 3 года назад

Luke really following in bezos' footsteps. Inspiring!

@andljoy 3 года назад

I hope in 20 years we have a based and red pilled amazon alternative :D.

@Mrmaverickism 3 года назад

Fist he stole the look .. then the market share

@zaccstacc4568 3 года назад

@@Mrmaverickism then luke steals your girl

@pkREX24 3 года назад

can't wait for him to expand into out of production technologies like wooden spears and chairs

@zacharystreeter1965 3 года назад

history says Luke will start printing his own books

@mateuspokemon01 3 года назад

Can't quite remember where I've heard it before. Is it from the uncle Ted's manifesto?

@AnalyticMinded 3 года назад

It's funny. Many, many years ago I wanted to do something like this. I was studying Latin and wanted to print very old Latin books that were only in e-book or HTML format. I had my eye on Jan Comenius' "Janua Linguarum". I knew a bit of LaTeX as well, and I actually started transcribing and correcting typos, etc. to produce a PDF and then a physical book (for personal use). But the task was way beyond me. Kudos, Luke: what you are doing is no mean task!

@metaphysicalconifercone182 3 года назад

Can we get more LaTeX tutorials for making books? I'd really like to see how you typeset that whole Proto-encyclopedia.

@juryrigging 3 года назад

I'd like more groff ones. Can't wait until Luke decides to make his own macros, I think the groff people want more young blood playing with the internals of the language.

@juryrigging 3 года назад

@Linus Man The groff people. Rumour has it they live in caves and feed on unsuspecting latex users.

@ItachiUchiha-ns1il 3 года назад

Uncle Luke putting out videos on consecutive days 👍

@hidde1626 3 года назад

Proper content creator

@bashisobsolete.pythonismyn6321 3 года назад

Luke, i worked in a print shop with offset press, xerox, guillotine and binding. long time ago but i am acquainted with the process and some of its quirks. what you're attempting is much easier with a good, local print shop. ask me anything specific about paper, ink, cutting, binding, etc. let's get you prepared to deal directly with the printers.

@GhostofTradition 3 года назад

I think the benifit of this is print on demand, a local shop probably will only do bulk?

@bashisobsolete.pythonismyn6321 3 года назад

@@GhostofTradition terms like "print on demand" and "bulk" are vague. can you clarify?

@juryrigging 3 года назад

@@bashisobsolete.pythonismyn6321 Print on demand is one book printed for every order made, so no surplus. I'm guessing bulk in this case refers to print runs of X number of books that then need to be stored.

@logsupermulti3921 3 года назад

@@bashisobsolete.pythonismyn6321 Print on Demand is pretty specific. Basically instead of the company printing say 5,000 copies of a book and then trying to sell them all, if a customer wants to purchase a book the company will just print a single copy and send it out, doing this for ever person who wants a particular book. This is great for smaller authors who normally wouldn't be able to sell thousands of bulk copies.

@JohnSmith-cz2zq 3 года назад

@@bashisobsolete.pythonismyn6321 print on demand: each time you get an order you print the book, bulk: you print each book a certain number of time first. You keep them in storage. And send them when you get an order. The biggest difference is investment and storage. For print on demand you dont need storage as all the book you print are already sold (you expedite them as soon as they are printed) also you dont need to invest personnal money as you get the money first and then you print. Whereas for bulk you invest to print and then get the money when someone buys a book from you inventory.

@trailblazingfive 3 года назад

Next episode boomer builds a Gutenberg's printing press in his shed...

@Eyetrauma 3 года назад

Situations like these are why I can never wrap my head around the concept of drop-shipping. I've seen so many companies be completely negligent in doing QC that I couldn't imagine staking my reputation on it.

@mateuspokemon01 3 года назад

Printing books is bloated. Just write them by hand

@miguelbustamante5271 3 года назад

cuneiform moment

@8w73 3 года назад

Just create your own books and don't write them, just say them out loud

@camaradamanuel5025 3 года назад

Paper is bloat and ink is gay. Use rocks and mud to write your books

@mateuspokemon01 3 года назад

@@8w73 Agree

@Assault_Butter_Knife 3 года назад

Printing books? That's doing the same thing as protestants did! Major cringe!

@TheOpaldes 3 года назад

Maybe get in touch with a local printing company and ask them how you could create a POD pipeline. Setup a shop and accumulate orders and send your orders every day per cron job to them at the morning. Maybe they can even handle the logistics?

@バカ-l9o 3 года назад

"Man pages aren't real because they are not printed in a book" - Unaboomer

@pedroprobst5230 3 года назад

One thing I miss about going to university pre-CUCK-19 was being able to print stuff very cheaply. I'm willing to buy a printer though, and if anyone here has a recommendation of a cheap and economical model I'd be thankful. My needs are at least ~20 pages/week. Can be an older model because I don't need soy tech.

@freesoftwareextremist8119 3 года назад

@@pedroprobst5230 Try to find a used laser printer somewhere. Most of them work fine with Linux, you don't even need any drivers, they just use PostScript. I've got a Lexmark for 50€ that works perfectly.

@pedroprobst5230 3 года назад

@@freesoftwareextremist8119 Thanks.

@s8wc3 3 года назад

@@pedroprobst5230 You can often get nice printers from businesses selling off their old equipment for almost nothing or free. I got a free Laserjet from a doctors office and the toner was still half full

@dasenase 3 года назад

@@pedroprobst5230 hp m402dne. Simple and fast

@altrogeruvah 3 года назад

Why am I invested on a rant whose subject I have 0 interest in? It's good, I'm learning things

@megaoyi1Wins 3 года назад

I'M SO HAPPY YOU HAVE RETURNED! I read your article on your website and I'm glad you have solved the problems. I find your perspective really interesting and many times your videos have inspired me to continue through though times, stop being lazy and start getting things done and caring about what really matters. Thank you!

@aayushnp5430 3 года назад

luke has finally channeled his inner tai lopez

@LukeSmithxyz 3 года назад

Weren't his bookshelves in his garage for some reason? lol Not good for durability.

@aayushnp5430 3 года назад

@@LukeSmithxyz Your cabin in the woods is close enough haha

@cardd1577 3 года назад

By next year Luke would have built an alternative to amazon that is based&redpill, totally radtrad and where you will be able to only buy books in Latin.

@faizanahmad5464 3 года назад

I'm a simple man, i see Marcus Aurelius' meditation, i click the video. Anyway lol, glad to know you're also into stoicism

@DavidJBurbridge 3 года назад

Who knows. Maybe starting your own printing business could be a good move in your life. The initial outlay would be high but you're well known enough now that you can be the go-to guy RU-vid for printing short runs or print on demand of specialist books.

@michaelcorsetti7313 3 года назад

Thank you for the book recommendation, just bought Hammer of the Patriot

@Ryan-rn3sq 3 года назад

I want to smell the insides of those books behind you so bad.

@seronymus 3 года назад

A whole library of Reimu armpits.

@Ryan-rn3sq 3 года назад

@@seronymus Imagine the smell.

@alephanull1953 3 года назад

Ahh, I see your a man of culture

@LloydLynx 3 года назад

See, he gets it.

@ryancompton3907 3 года назад

We’re on the verge of a new renaissance! Love the vids/work you do!

@eddiewramos 3 года назад

>he hasn't taken the clay tablet pill

@ChucksSEADnDEAD 3 года назад

Based and Ea-nasir-pilled.

@barneyjmusic Год назад

This is truly incredible! Unfortunately, it. hasn't left me any closer to finding a self-publishing source, but somehow I feel like I gained something greater.

@matj12 3 года назад

Write a system for automatic fulfilling of orders as a one-liner in bash. (Edit: not bash, POSIX-compliant shell)

@dmsalomon 3 года назад

I've ordered books using amazon pod before and it was super quick, and they came out nice. They might be evil, but they get the job done.

@christopherlewis1948 3 года назад

I spent over 20 years in the print industry. The PDF workflow has been a joke for as long as I can remember (what started out as a desire to standardize never properly materialized), and the entire move to the crap quality with online production/distribution may be cheap but is worthless for expectations beyond that same cheap crap.

@shamon351 3 года назад

I like the "modern french" book that seems so old ! ! ;)

@icuddledyourimouto768 3 года назад

Being a european Lulu-user (or how you could call it, Luser) I have had no problems and read that it is very location-dependant. All european things are printed in Poland, idk where in the US.

@seronymus 3 года назад

This was worth pulling the all-nighter. I didn't even know there was a video scheduled. I get rewarded with Boomer ranting about old books. I win.

@jorionedwards 3 года назад

Jokes on you. I say this a day ago on Peertube.

@seronymus 3 года назад

@@jorionedwards I'm not part of the Luke fan club yet... Inshallah I shall acquire the dakimakura.

@stumbling 3 года назад

You could probably autograph that _Meditations/Hammer of the Patriot_ and auction it off as a rare collectible.

@lilithlovelace1556 3 года назад

Using both PDFs/Ebooks and real books is the truly based solution.

@desktopmonologues 3 года назад

I've used Lulu at least since 2007, and I was always satisfied with the end products. I've created several books, and recently even a photo book, and it all looked fine. I understand your frustrations (especially with the empty pages), and I don't have the answer for that, but I personally never had a problem with them. In my opinion, they were always the best choice for me. Maybe that says a lot about POD market, I don't know.

@lauranicoleofficial_ Год назад

so why do they make you order an actual copy of your work...esp if its books...because that was not what i planned.......they seem sketchy and dont wanna help.....

@eddiejeffrys1985 8 месяцев назад

Yeah myself and the rpg community have printed thousands and I've only ever heard "because i didn't format it right" as the reason something was wrong.

@АртемБебик-щ4о 3 года назад

GNU/Linux user: Man, I don't believe in ebooks, I can't read from screen Reads thousands of lines of man pages.

@marciomaiajr 3 года назад

This is kinda "in the woods" rant video. But the trees look different.

@abba4468 3 года назад

Excelente ideal Luke. Es muy valioso lo que haces!

@hidde1626 3 года назад

Makes no sense. They should at least give you a refund.

@Gooberpatrol66 3 года назад

Put that cursed Marcus Aurelius misprint in a time capsule to confuse historians.

@HimerPr0 3 года назад

I would like to hear how Luke is schooled on about adobe reader.

@abcdef4328 3 года назад

BTW, Lulu's founder and CEO is Red Hat co-founder Bob Young.

@hmagellanlinux307 3 года назад

Where do you get your Latin sources for these books? I know that wikisource and Project Gutenberg have some Latin texts, but I've seen citations for some old works in some places (not this video) and then been unable to find digital copies of them. Also, would you consider printing any of the works of Emperor Julian? There are collected versions of those floating around in digital format.

@LukeSmithxyz 3 года назад

thelatinlibrary.com/ penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/home.html and others. There are some which I'm semi-manually transcribing from partially pdftotexted .pdfs.

@ΑρτεμισίαΠλοκαμίδου 3 года назад

I think you can also try the Library Genesis and archive.org as well.

@jessieheartart 2 года назад

i've heard a lot of lulu bad reviews and horror stories so i've stayed away. then i hear the shipping times are really way longer than would be desired for today. i wish i could find a company that did POD at great prices without all these issues. i'm still looking. vervante is one option but they're a little higher in price, i think they do a better job though. idk, i haven't tested yet but they're one i'm still considering

@robertross3795 3 года назад

Hey Luke, have you considered going to Antelope Hill? They're B&R

@allegoricalstatue 3 года назад

Besides all the issues, those books look quite lovely. I will definitely be purchasing _all_ of them, fyi. Hope you get the issues sorted out. Sounds pretty frustrating.

@djdjukic 3 года назад

Boomer slams eBooks, claims only paper books are real, then complains about how they didn't print his QR code for Bitcoin donations

@alicekohler9405 3 года назад

Based.printing

@mateuspokemon01 3 года назад

Don't be mad, Luke, they just wanted you to read a based and red pilled book! The Hammer of the Patriot!

@greenmug6436 3 года назад

I haven't read a physical book in a long time. ebooks are my life

@desktorp 3 года назад

RIP eyeballs

@ΑρτεμισίαΠλοκαμίδου 3 года назад

@@desktorp have you ever heard about the specialised e-reader devices?

@daa3417 3 года назад

@@ΑρτεμισίαΠλοκαμίδου Have you ever used a book for reference and put your fingers in other pages to quickly flip between them? Can’t do that with ebooks.

@greenmug6436 3 года назад

@@ΑρτεμισίαΠλοκαμίδου I read books on my smartphone

@greenmug6436 3 года назад

@@daa3417 flipping pages is definitely much faster with ebooks than books.

@BikZom 3 года назад

The problem you have is that you used big company that has automated workflow process which not always work if your files are not properly prepared for print. Contact your local print shop they will do it 100 times better.

@BikZom 3 года назад

btw small print shops are based and mostly run by the families where you're treated like an actual person.

@rayment2574 3 года назад

Luke what font and point size do you use for these books? You should make a typesetting video for LaTeX.

@HolyMarmot 3 года назад

I wish I could help you out. This is a great great project and I'm rooting for you to succeed in it.

@LordDevi 3 года назад

Man there are some amazing books on that shelf! A few I haven't heard of that look really interesting too.

@UCFc1XDsWoHaZmXom2KVxvuA 3 года назад

This is what happens if you use open source software, you should have used adobe reader

@lainarte 3 года назад

Porcodio

@cavejohnson6169 3 года назад

Seems like a conversion problem since the pdf needs to be adjusted before printing and pdf to docx messes with a lot of formatting. I've been doing this book printing for a while I edited the source pdf to standard A5 so every book I want to print is consistent and no further editing is required. No idea about the cover tho I just put title in blank white.

@n4p3r0 3 года назад

Yoo, the one and only Cave Johnson. Can you believe it?

@elliecreates9348 2 года назад

me realizing 6 minutes in that they have a lord of the rings book in the back round

@lphoogenboom 3 года назад

Luke will never date a Lulu again after this.

@edehe2370 3 года назад

I know Bronze Age mindset is hidden somewhere amongst the books behind.

@LukeSmithxyz 3 года назад

It actually isn't. I've never read that.

@penmonker12 3 года назад

@@LukeSmithxyz sad!

@asamanthinketh5944 3 года назад

Bronze Age is based God showed up in bronze Age

@elliott_hunter0510 Год назад

I just print out short stories from ppl on Wattpad or other short stories, and I use LULU so I can have a hard copy because I like reading from a book. I have only ordered 4 but they have been good. The only thing obviously is that if I don’t like the sizing of the words I have to go back in and make them smaller or bigger or if I notice typos I have to go and change them (I usually don’t, I just like having a hard copy, I’m not selling them lol) all in all I like them but I can totally see that if you publish your own books you want it to look good :)

@agamemnon8163 3 года назад

Smith, you should contact Christine Weston Chandler and ask her how to participate in her boycott of this company.

@crusaderACR 3 года назад

>her

@cagedblaze 3 года назад

Luke! Try Imperial Press and Antelope Hill, Yarvin recommends them both.

@Alekov_ 3 года назад

Awesome Luke you should start a reading community.

@mohamedsallam5154 3 года назад

Lulu's blank pages: Stop! Take some notes!

@amosnimos 2 года назад

Hey Luke I am just curious, do you play D&D (Dungeon & Dragon ttrpg) ?

@captainjack6010 3 года назад

Luke "Printer goes brrrr" Smith

@icuddledyourimouto768 3 года назад

oh and the best way is probably talking to local printshops and if they offer binding.

@salvatoreshiggerino6810 3 года назад

I've been wanting to buy Etymologiae since you first mentioned the project. I hope you find a decent printer.

@LearnEnglishWithJess Год назад

Oh wow. I'm looking into which company to print on demand with... I've been highly considering going with Lulu, but I'm not sure anymore...

@harrycox6303 3 года назад

Did you try writing your books using Adobe Acrobat though?

@savantshuia 2 года назад

Boomer loses his mind and over $150 dollars over printing shenanigans' and proceeds to complain in R E D A C T E D library

@romanista77 Год назад

Received a book with the wrong cover from Lulu. They never replied to me after a few tries at emailing them. It's a nice end product when it works though. I've ordered a lot from them in recent years. But, quality control and customers service isn't something they put much into...

@arkanfilms9988 Год назад

02:02 ''I'm not gonna use Amazon because they're evil'' thank you for saying that.

@Charsh392 3 года назад

Have you looked into things other than shopify? are there alternatives compatible with lulu? Im wondering if you get same issues doing manual versus shopify. Personally I dont know much about this just trying to give ideas. Wondering if theres some wonky stuff going on with formatting reformatting like with what you mentioned having to get isbn and do through shop yada yada

@badpotato 3 года назад

dude is so angry that he is smiling.. haha

@jmwart 2 года назад

I had printing problems with KDP but they have excellent customer service. I got two rounds of bad printing but an instant refund on both.

@porky1118 3 года назад

12:55 "It prints a square" Maybe it does not support your Linux newlines?

@desktorp 3 года назад

that's gnu+linux newlines

@dustyloops8355 3 года назад

gnulines

@pyzmark 3 года назад

On topic but a little off topic: what's the binding like? Is it nice case binding with individual quires (I think modern publishers use a different term) that have been stitched together? Or is it a hundred+ sheets that are glued together at the edge?

@jamesm5192 3 года назад

Boom: FOSS print-on-demand book startup! Each customer should be able to send back merch / books... Not even Printful and the like can do that.

@swims-in-money6672 3 года назад

It’s a whole plot. They’re trying to get you to install Adobe Reader and Windows 🤮

@remline 3 года назад

You might investigate the PDF/X format, which is designed for print publishing. Unfortunately, I cannot find any open source tools that write PDF/X. And it is unclear to me whether PDF/X is actually necessary, as long as fonts and images are properly embedded in a normal PDF.

@spewbert 3 года назад

I getted John Seymour's The Self Sufficient Life and How to Live it btw. Thank you for having a personnel library posted on your site. Nothing personell, kid.

@ivailopetrov2827 3 года назад

Hey Luke I saw Atlas Shrugged in the background, when is the video essay coming?

@kenkelvin4023 3 года назад

Imagine using a company that paid 40k$ for a stupid domain, and excepting their product to be good and decent

@Klayperson 3 года назад

Luke, for a couple hundred dollars worth of errors you can sue them in small claims court. They don't give a shit about your videos. Put them in front of a judge

@mrsansiverius2083 3 года назад

Old man yells at printer

@simozonelayer 3 года назад

I've made photo-books with them and every now and then there's a messy print or the colours are messed up or they change the paper weight. They are quite inconsistent and like you said, very little quality control.

@Hvandersleyen 3 года назад

HE IS BACK!

@theplasticdeer2612 3 года назад

Thank you

@dontpokethebear3893 3 года назад

E-readers don’t have screens. Not in any sense that matters. It’s more like an etch-a-sketch. You can even turn off any front light on the device and read in natural light like a real book. Plus they’re about 1/4 the weight of a book, can be any size that’s comfortable for you, and are way more portable and safer to keep in a bag.

@desktorp 3 года назад

you can kill a man with a fat book though can you kill a man with an e-reader?

@mikaelladecheva4454 Год назад

Hi, I wonder if this got fixed? Are you still printing with Lulu?

@existextinct 3 года назад

Is it possible to view and order a list of the books you've ordered from them? Do they retain and sell copies of other people's requests?

@lphoogenboom 3 года назад

I see you have atlas shrugged. I'm very curious what you think about it, or Ayn Rand in general. Perhaps something for a video?

@helpme2999 3 года назад

send him an email

@JcadeH1 3 года назад

Cool video but you head is in the way of that sweet book collection

@bbseal6174 3 года назад

Luke, have you heard of tumblar house ? Charles Coulombe publishes through them I believe. They may be willing to publish some of your stuff, especially the Catholic stuff.

@LearnEnglishWithJess Год назад

May I ask what is wrong with Amazon?

@ronalddonaghe3674 2 года назад

I suspect on the blank pages that you typeset your book with Adobe In Design...It's a hokey program.

@user-ez9is7lb9p 3 года назад

Those books do look gorgeous though

@user-ro1cc8tz6d 3 года назад

fresh book smell be like 😤🤌 📕

@desktorp 3 года назад

too bad Lulu can't bind books that last.. in a couple of years, any book you get from them will be falling apart, unless you never open it.

@HeyBuddays 3 года назад

Get a Likebook P10 for $340 from AliExpress. Break the DRM on library books. Never pay for a paper book again. (Also never connect your ereader to the internet because it's chinese malware lmao)

@jmwart 2 года назад

Customer service is a big deal. Lulu uses a web of printers so quality control is varied per printer. Some printers know what they're doing, but unfortunately, some do not. But customer service by Lulu is the biggest problem.