A busy day. I thought it would be a good idea to create some lyrics books, pdf files in a print-friendly format which is as well presented as a 'B-format' book, with simple artwork and layout, something like my game manuals. I'm not sure if these will ever be popular, but they do look nice, and the workload to create them relatively small.
So I've spent today putting those together for all of my albums which have words, which number 16. They all look rather pretty:
No worse, for example, than the lovely Kate Bush book, How To Be Invisible. This has taken most of the day. I'll make the files a free download somewhere, and certainly include them in the download purchases of the albums on Bandcamp. I've also listed Once Upon A Time on Bandcamp, the last album for that platform, so all 32 of my currently 'live' albums have been released there now. The others are generally older works which have been superseded; the only exception is The Incredible Journey, which has never been released digitally, but many of its tracks have been anyway, and it's an ancient album from the NoiseStation 1 days, so the sound quality isn't good enough. If I were to do anything with it, I'd re-record it.
I've also added the Amiga source code to my games to itch. The code is of little use to me. I can't compile it and have forgotten just about everything about how to code on Amiga or in assembler. I've no plans to update any game, and if I did, it would be easier for me to make a game from scratch than use the old code - though in theory the level designs might be useful to rip. Anyway, someone might find the code useful, and sharing it may keep the games alive.
I'll proof the booklets tomorrow, then add them to various places. I've not created booklets for the Fall in Green albums, this is a bit more complicated as most of the words are Deborah's, and there is already a book called Testing the Delicates, the original poetry book upon which our début album was based. The only booklet that includes words that aren't mine is The Anatomy of Emotions. It's an unusual case, as the album is listed under my name (which made sense from a music publishing standpoint; the alternative would have been to create a 'band' name... which seemed overly complex), but the lyric booklet is credited to Tim Watson, as all of the words are his - it would be silly to credit that to me.
I also intend to make an audio-CD archive of all of my albums in a spindle. At the moment I tend to burn one copy, or retain a first copy of a replicated or printed series, but over the years, some have been kept, and other not, and all here and there and in different cases. One solid archive is more secure. It may also be a good idea to make several archives... perhaps sell my current 32-disc back catalogue as one 'box set' on a spindle (which is called a 'cake box', for some weird reason).
