I need a few of his books in English and don't care for reading at length on the puter.What is the best non-scam option for custom printing a pdf file into a paperback that isn't going to cost lots of money or require me to buy a printer?
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>>24849838Six fat books sat in a virtual book case on Orphu. As the lens zoomed in and focused on the text of volume 3 In Search of lost Time, it hit Mahmout— Orphu was optically blind. That meant he had to memorize all six of those weighty tomes. Mahmout began to howl.
>>24849838You can use something like lulu.com or any other print on demand service that lets you order personal copies, just be sure they're out of copyright. I think I saw that they had a rule change restricting the printing of books in the public domain, but I think that was for people trying to sell books using their platform rather than people using it for private printing purposes.Also, if you're working from scans, do what you can to clean up the images. It costs way more to print colour, and converting to black and white should also help readability. You can export a PDF to images (https://tools.pdf24.org/en/pdf-to-images), pass them through a filter in Imagemagick (https://imagemagick.org/script/color-thresholding.php), then put them back together as a PDF (https://tools.pdf24.org/en/images-to-pdf).As alternative to printing, if you have PDFs in black and white, you can also read them on an e-reader. How readable it is depends on how big the book originally was, but doing things like cropping the margins can help a lot. I've done this before to read something of novel size on a standard-sized Kobo. A true black-and-white conversion also reduces filesize, which helps a lot since e-readers are generally pretty weak.
