Musie,
Drop what you’re doing. Retail Alert! Retail Alert! There are rolls of paper on Amazon for six or seven bucks and up. I got a 60-yard roll, 18” wide, for $7.98!
It’s a little too wide but I’m cutting three or so inches off the width and feeding it into the Selectric. Then I don’t have to keep stopping to load another page into the beast when we’re at full chat and layin’ down ink. It got to be such busy work feeding sheets of paper into it, like juggling small clips into a hungry machine gun. The 11”x17” pages helped maintain the flow for a while but this thing should be belt-fed to reach its true potential. I’m placing a couple rolls on my wish list— hint hint, nudge nudge. I’m afraid to look at the art supplies on yours, you’ve some spendy taste in ink and paint, Girl!
So if anyone asks— and don’t worry no one ever does— how long is that book you’re working on?, I can confidently say that it will be no longer than 60 yards, and it’s not really a book. It could be easier to read in bed than a book. And you could cover yourself with it if your bedmate has all the covers. Just think of the market for head-board mounted scroll-holders. For those longer, weightier scrolls they’d probably require bearings. Wait, do they measure scrolls metricly now? Meters, whatever, we can do the conversion if need be. We’ll give it a good editing and another go at a final draft on the other side. Then I should be able to get however many copies we want made at Sir Speedy. Technically it’s a single page.
Anyhow, we could be selling scrolls on Amazon by the end of next year, or the year after, depending on what sort of state scroll technology is currently in.
Oh, and I don’t know about Ava yet. I was thinking Ava, short for Avocado. Or should it be Avo? Avo798. That has a ring to it. I was previously thinking Galinda. But Galinda’s not quite right. I don’t know yet, it’ll tell me when it’s ready.
Okay, that’s all for now.
Back to your regularly scheduled programming.
Here’s to page-turners and bearing-burners,
I’m heading back to the speed trials soon!
With a hacksaw.
Zoom,
-P
P.S.- Wait ’til you see what we’re doing with the other three and a half inches. Or nine cm, whatever.