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Stephen Cavers did something similar with Cafe Press, though he had to roll his own PDF.

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I've seen a couple of these books come through Lulu.com and they looked surprisingly good (for books that were 'automatically' generated).

David wondered WHY it seemed nice to have his blog in a book-format... as to the question of why, I'd propose that having a paperback version of all your blog writings might serve the same role that saving all your journals from high school serves--as reminder, as caution, as (for better or worse) a record of what you were thinking at the time. You can save the writing digitally, of course, but what about your grandkids perusing your bookshelves a couple of decades down the line? A book is something they could stumble on that might still have a little magic. To stumble on something on your harddrive, they'd need a password...

This is terrific. Thanks for hooking me up with it, David.

Yeah I did the same thing via Cafepress and indeed rolled my own PDF to publish the first year of Portland Communique in two volumes. Of course, it also involved a lot of reformatting by hand because I needed to make sure page breaks were present at the end of each month's worth of posts, etc. It was a royal pain. Going to need to find a better way for when I do up Year Two, Volume One at the end of June.

The shock ending on this bizzare twisted episode of "The Sopranos" is probably the biggest hit of this show since this season started. The sudden stop at the end of the episode left me alon with millions of others haging on the edge of our seat. The song "Don't Stop Believin" is the perfect ending for this season. At first i thought that my cable had gone out or something. But when the credits started rolling I was like "What the hell, was that really the end of it all." If you pay closeattention to the ending there are many clues to prove that Tony Soprano got whacked. his family maybe to, but you never know. Personally I think that the diner was supposed to be heaven. But there are some throw offs. Who the hell would take four or five times to parallel their car in "HEAVEN", but who knows could be. If you listen closely, every time T. looks up the bell rings at the diner. When his daughter Meadow walks in, there is no bell. the bell that you hear is actually in the song by Journey. Also, when he first gets to the restraunt, he is wearing a brown shirt, and then when he was sitting down his shirt was black, white, and gray. The guy sitting at the bar is Phil Leotardo's nephew. It is pretty obvious that Tony Soprano, and maybe his family got whacked.