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December 3, 2008

Delphi 2009 Handbook Stats

Someone asked in the CodeRage chat, so I dug out some status about the book.

Someone asked in the CodeRage chat, so I dug out some status about the book. According to Open Office (the word processor I used) document information the book has 400 pages; 112 images; 7,912 paragraphs; 90,900 words; 584,001 characters; 12,969 lines.

Also, documents stat says 894 hours editing time (which is about 110 days at 8 hours a day), but I don't know if this is accurate as I used multiple files. This also includes the time spend on the text by the editor, though. Still, it certainly was a large effort.

For all those upset about lulu shipping costs, I'm really evaluating an alternative print-on-demand service. Will let you know, but setting this up will take a couple of weeks at least. For now, I'm moving Essential Pascal to give it a try.




 

2 Comments

Delphi 2009 Handbook Stats 

 Would you consider making it an electronic download?
I'd like to buy it but the shipping and exchange rate
makes it fairly expensive.
Comment by David Ninnes on December 3, 03:40

Delphi 2009 Handbook Stats 

I wasn't happy with the Lulu shipping cost either but
the CodeRage discount helped.  And I would have bought
the book even if you didn't offer the discount. The
Delphi 2007 Handbook was full of useful tips so it was
a no brainer for me to buy the 2009 book.
Comment by Kirby Turner [http://www.whitepeaksoftware.com] on December 3, 03:51


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