Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

Hi :)
Errr, just my own personal opinion of course and on "a bad hair day"

Try watching "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", particularly the scene with the peasants working in 
the field and claiming to be "an autonomous collective" and then admitting their lord was out to 
lunch.  
Regards from 
Tom :)  





> ________________________________
> From: Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk>
> To: Kracked_P_P---webmaster <webmaster@krackedpress.com>; "users@global.libreoffice.org" 
> <users@global.libreoffice.org> 
> Sent: Thursday, 11 July 2013, 13:40
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer
>
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>
> Hi :)
> I think that "Private Window" is based on a "standards" agreement that went through the US Senate 
> and was heavily lobbied against by hefty US companies that were grumbling that they needed to 
> invade everyone's privacy in order to be able to sell their products and make America great (they 
> meant the US, but obviously they ignore the southern half of the continent and the 50% of the 
> remaining land mass that is Canada).  
>
> The result is that websites are sent an extra bit of information about you and that bit is your 
> intention to be anonymous and that information, along with all the rest, can be logged by 
> whichever site you visit.  Some governments (ie not just in the US) agencies see the desire to be  
> anonymous (ie a "loner") as suspicious so once they have figured out how to do it then they might 
> put you higher up
 any lists they might keep (if they can handle the volume of data) and, of course, companies can 
just ignore the request for privacy or even see it as a challenge.  
> Individuals 'rights' versus corporate profits.  Which tends to win these days?  
>
> Outside of the USA such things are normal and common-place and have been going on for centuries.  
> Occasionally one country or other produces a piece of paper that claims individuals have rights 
> but those usually turn out to be "business as usual" fairly quickly or even plummet into an even 
> worse situation for some time.  
> Regards from  
> Tom :)  
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > ________________________________
> > From: Kracked_P_P---webmaster <webmaster@krackedpress.com>
> > To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> > Sent: Thursday, 11 July 2013, 12:58
> > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer
> >
> >
> >
> > hipiers.com does not send out spam emails, or it should not since the 
> > owner of the domain is against spam as much as we are.
> >
> > I do not know anything about Scrivener or its web site.
> >
> > Did you do a Google or Amazon search for "writer info", a book search,  
> > or some other one that might make you think you are a writer of some 
> > type of book or manual?  If you did, you may have triggered a 
> > advertisement from
 Amazon.
> > When I look at my weather site, it displays advertisement based on my 
> > searches on Amazon, Google, and even Tigerdirect.com [computer and 
> > electronics web store].
> >
> > Of course, you could always use the "Private Window" option in Mozilla 
> > Firefox to reduce your web footprint and not give, the web sites you 
> > visit, your info that is stored in your bowser, such as email address 
> > and other things you do not want given out.  Every browser I know of has 
> > personal information stored in it.  The trick is to make your browser 
> > not have this info available to the sites you visit.  Firefox has the 
> > "private window" option. [File > New Private Window].
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 07/11/2013 06:56 AM, Virgil Arrington wrote:
> > > Okay, this is really spooky, or I'm just growing paranoid.
> > >
> > > Two days ago, I downloaded Scrivener. Yesterday, I clicked on the 
> > > "hipiers" link suggested
 below.
> > > Today, I receive an email from Amazon suggesting I buy the book, 
> > > "Writers Tune-up Manual."
> > >
> > > Virgil
> > >
> > > -----Original Message----- From: Kracked_P_P---webmaster
> > > Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 9:08 AM
> > > To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> > > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer
> > >
> > > On 07/10/2013 08:37 AM, Virgil Arrington wrote:
> > > > Urmas wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > The tool that you use does not matter. Everything thay you write 
> > > > > will be decomposed and virtually remade in the DTP program, most 
> > > > > likely InDesign.
> > > >
> > > > You may be right if the project goes to a professional publisher for 
> > > > final output. But, Pablo's original question stated he would be 
> > > > creating a "self
 published, free ebook." Pablo is apparently looking 
> > > > for a solution that *avoids* the need to present his book to a 
> > > > professional publisher.
> > > >
> > > > Virgil
> > >
> > > The poster might want to look at this page.
> > >
> > > http://www.hipiers.com/publishing.html
> > >
> > > In the list, there is information about some publishers and services,
> > > with some references to e-book self publishing.  IT might be worth a 
> > > look.
> > >
> > > If the poster wants to make money on a self-published e-book, then there
> > > may be some good information there to guide through the process.
> >
> >
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