E-book
September 27th 2009 07:06
When I managed OC Books, the Christian bookshop, there were several occasions when I had reason to investigate e-books, either because people asked about how to get them, or because I was interested in the possibility of the shop doing something in the e-book line.
More recently I've been doing some further research on the topic, because my boss is interested in the possibility of publishing an e-book, and even more, because I'm
considering doing the same thing myself. (Whether the boss publishes his as a pure e-book, or as an online publication in real book format, we've yet to decide.)
I've spent the last week, on and off, collating the various blog posts from this blog that relate to my prostate problems, the subsequent operation, and the aftermath. (Aftermath might be a little strong; after-life might be better!)
I'd thought about doing this a while ago, because I believed there was material there that could be helpful to other guys going through similar situations, but was given an added incentive when someone actually wrote to me and said that the posts had helped him deal with his own prostate problems: "Reading your postings on bladder retention with interest - I am just starting the same journey & I am a lot better informed regarding the problem than I would have been had I not found your blog by accident. Time will tell how I go... Thanks again ... "
As well as the blog posts from the period in question, I've got journal notes that I wrote, and which didn't appear online. For years I've been keeping what you might call a 'God Journal.' It's usually just an exercise book in which I make notes about such things as how I'm going in relation to my Christian life, 'conversations' with God (and some of his 'responses!'), notes on what I've been reading in the Bible and so on.
During the prostate problem time I wrote quite a bit about how I was feeling - often this doesn't come across in the blog posts, which would mostly get written in the evenings; the God stuff gets written in the morning, which is a different part of the day, emotionally, for me.
I'm still thinking about whether to include a sample of these notes with the blog posts. They give an added dimension to the saga, particularly in terms of how I felt. The blog posts tend to skim over the surface of how I felt because usually by the time I wrote them I was already emotionally in a different place.
The photo above (by the Doctr) is staged, but not the look on the guy's face. It's pretty much what the average guy looks like when he's having a digital examination.
More recently I've been doing some further research on the topic, because my boss is interested in the possibility of publishing an e-book, and even more, because I'm
I've spent the last week, on and off, collating the various blog posts from this blog that relate to my prostate problems, the subsequent operation, and the aftermath. (Aftermath might be a little strong; after-life might be better!)
I'd thought about doing this a while ago, because I believed there was material there that could be helpful to other guys going through similar situations, but was given an added incentive when someone actually wrote to me and said that the posts had helped him deal with his own prostate problems: "Reading your postings on bladder retention with interest - I am just starting the same journey & I am a lot better informed regarding the problem than I would have been had I not found your blog by accident. Time will tell how I go... Thanks again ... "
As well as the blog posts from the period in question, I've got journal notes that I wrote, and which didn't appear online. For years I've been keeping what you might call a 'God Journal.' It's usually just an exercise book in which I make notes about such things as how I'm going in relation to my Christian life, 'conversations' with God (and some of his 'responses!'), notes on what I've been reading in the Bible and so on.
During the prostate problem time I wrote quite a bit about how I was feeling - often this doesn't come across in the blog posts, which would mostly get written in the evenings; the God stuff gets written in the morning, which is a different part of the day, emotionally, for me.
I'm still thinking about whether to include a sample of these notes with the blog posts. They give an added dimension to the saga, particularly in terms of how I felt. The blog posts tend to skim over the surface of how I felt because usually by the time I wrote them I was already emotionally in a different place.
The photo above (by the Doctr) is staged, but not the look on the guy's face. It's pretty much what the average guy looks like when he's having a digital examination.
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