One Developer's Quest to Republish a 1953 Cult Classic
Picolibrary: A Small Press
A developer recounts the journey of republishing Professor Mmaa's Lecture, a 1953 novel about termites, after acquiring the rights. The process involved using Claude to draft a contract, OCR and clean up scans, and tackle formatting challenges like poetry line-wraps and custom glyphs. The result is a new small press, Picolibrary, and the book is now available online.
I’ve been telling everyone that I bought my first book ever, just to confuse people.