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FFE Reprints

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Are they ever going to reprint the Adventure and Double Adventure books in Dead Tree format? It seems the only way you can get them is on disk now. I prefer things to be bound so I can take them to games or store them.

EDIT: How many Far Traveller* journals were there? I have the first 2 but have no idea how many were printed.

*FASA 1982
 
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robject said:
I suppose there could be a sort of print-on-demand service?
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Marc could, if he felt like doing so, connect all the PDF's through Lulu or another PoD service, and get it all back into print-available.
 
Andrew Boulton said:
I think many are non-standard sizes.
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5.5x8.5 is a standard size... it's also half a letter-sized sheet.

The in-box 8.25x10.75 print nicely to 8.5x11

The only issue, really, is that the PDF's often have 2-page layouts presented as a single logical page.
 
I was fortunate in managing to get a copy of Classic Short Adventures from a shop that still had a copy for Christmas. Already had the Adventures 1-13 book thankfully.

Incidentally, there's a discrepancy in the hardcopy contents list here- http://www.farfuture.net/Contents Hardcopy Classic Traveller Reprints.pdf and what's actually in the books, at least in my copies. The Classic Books 0-8 I've got does NOT have Understanding Traveller, The Traveller Book, The Traveller Adventure and Starter Traveller material in it as the list makes out. Also SS1-3 and A00 were in my Classic Short Adventures book, not the Supplements and Adventures book as shown here. Are the books listed on the site later editions or something?

Annoyingly the third volume of the JTAS reprints I also got for Christmas had a printing error, it repeated several pages from the end of issue 29 to about page 15 of issue 30. If they'd been additional I'd not have worried but they actually replaced pages that should have been there. The other copy in the shop (Orc's Nest, London) had the same error. They let me exchange it for the second volume (which I hadn't got) though and will be restocking in a month or so, so I'll pick it up then.

I imagine there were too many complications in producing a Classic Modules collection in hardcopy, sheer size for one, it would have been massive.
 
aramis said:
5.5x8.5 is a standard size... it's also half a letter-sized sheet.

The in-box 8.25x10.75 print nicely to 8.5x11

The only issue, really, is that the PDF's often have 2-page layouts presented as a single logical page.
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Isn't this how the LBB reprints are/were anyway? They're certainly not in the LBB format, I thought they were in 11.5 x 8.5 format, 2 pages per page.

I haven't seen the PDFs, but if they're 5.5 x 8.5, most modern PDF viewers/computers will let you print them side by side. And it's also straight forward to "print odd", flip it over and "print even" to get double sided. Finally, you can scoot on down to Kinkos or some other quick print place and get them bound for a buck or two.
 
Both are well worth it. They have entire worlds in Reavers Deep with subsector maps for that world. They also have deep background and a few adventures.
 
whartung said:
Isn't this how the LBB reprints are/were anyway? They're certainly not in the LBB format, I thought they were in 11.5 x 8.5 format, 2 pages per page.

I haven't seen the PDFs, but if they're 5.5 x 8.5, most modern PDF viewers/computers will let you print them side by side. And it's also straight forward to "print odd", flip it over and "print even" to get double sided. Finally, you can scoot on down to Kinkos or some other quick print place and get them bound for a buck or two.
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The PDF's are a mix of 5.5x8.5 and 11x8.5, so you can't just use booklet printing... unless you hack to unlock and have acrobat (or an equivalent program) to duplicate thd double-sized page, and then crop to the two half-pages. It also bites BIG time for use on e-readers.
 
BlackBat242 said:
I can't really remember... its been 3-4 years.

Too much for me, anyway.

I'm still looking for an affordable copy of High Passage #1... the one I bid on back then went for well over $20.
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Last time I saw a copy of High Passage #1 on ebay it went for $170, you should have bid for the $20 one!

Regards,

Ewan
 
E.D.Quibell said:
Last time I saw a copy of High Passage #1 on ebay it went for $170, you should have bid for the $20 one!

Regards,

Ewan
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When I got my copy of High Passage 1 off E-bay, I was saying "I can't believe that I got this for only 50 bucks." And I am almost certain that the person that sold it to me was saying to themselves "I can't believe that someone would really pay me 50 bucks for this!"

(It was obvious that the seller wasn't a role-player, sorta like the person that threw in a copy of 101 robots as an "added bonus" according to the note they sent.)
 
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I was E-bay tonight and grabbed a Far Traveller #2 for $6 with free shipping. I saw some #1 for $20. I also grabbed 2 High Passages for under $40 with shipping. They are out there if you look.
 
I too like the hard copies for use. I like the price of the CD/DVD versions so I just print off the pages I need and use a notebook and sheet protectors. A side benefit to being a school janitor is I get to "recycle" usable notebooks from the trash. I have about 40 waiting to be put to use. Drives my wife crazy wondering why I have so many just taking up space - until she need some for her sewing/ knitting patterns.
 
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