u/BrekLasnar

So I can't attach an image to let you people know exactly what I'm referring to. Basically, I've been doing this for a long time and it always went well, so I never really questioned it. But I just realized something and now I'm genuinely confused.

So there's the spine, the spine margin, the spine safe area, and then the hinge area on both sides of the spine.

What I've always done is extend the background or the extra part of the front cover and back cover into their respective hinge areas. So the hinge next to the front cover would be filled with the front cover's background, and the hinge next to the back cover would be filled with the back cover's background. I always thought that was how it was supposed to be.

But then I looked more closely at the KDP cover dimensions calculator, and for the first time I really noticed how the hinge is marked separately from the spine.

Now I'm genuinely lost as to what is actually supposed to fill that hinge area.

Am I supposed to extend the spine background across the entire hinge area on both sides, so the spine background includes the spine itself plus both hinges?

Or am I supposed to keep doing what I've always done, where the front cover background fills the hinge on the front cover side, and the back cover background fills the hinge on the back cover side, while the spine background only stays within the actual spine area?

That's the specific part I'm trying to understand.

So I love making OCs and variations of them. Different eras, race and outfits. Now I love what I've seen so far from Midjourney, people make so many amazing things. What I don't know if Midjourney suffers from false positives. As in if I make something sensualized and such, not nudity, just sensualized outfits and poses, would it get flagged a lot? I put my money in chatgpt and yeah, bad hindsight. So I want to know how it's in Midjourney. I need to know this before I put any money or is it strictly super safe place.

So I sadly cannot name the genre nor like the theme. All I know best is that I heard it like 2023 something. It's like one of those songs by lesser artists that got hit. I believe it was famous on tiktok. I like have this memory of the song Like I know it exists but I really don't remember the rhymes, not the hums or like lyrics.

What I know is that there's a point in the song where the speaker/singer is admitting to I guess infidelity. Where like I guess it's like a dreamy sequence (it's not a video, just going based on what I remember of a certain verse, like the vibe of it) a dreamy sequence, the character opens the door and she finds the speaker/singer sleeping with someone else. Singer saying something like "someone else besides me"

God I really hate how I can not even remember a single thing besides that, like it's like waiting for me to hear just a single line and my memory would unlock but I just can't remember it at all.

It's like I guess a sad song, like not hella depressed but like sad song with like an electronic tune maybe? This is all I remember, would really really appreciate if anyone can find it 😭

So I got a book, already published through AmazonKDP. The ISBNs are my own.

Now, I want to publish it throughout other places through IngramSpark.

But I'm coming across a problem. Since the book is already published on AmazonKDP, if I were to publish on IngramSpark, will it make duplicates on Amazon or will it just see that the book is already there and won't make duplicates since ISBN are the same.

I really got interested in AllTomorrows through summaries and those 3d videos of some of the creatures and I really want to purchase the book but the deal is, the cover is really not something I can leave around. The book cover has well, even if animalistic people, can still see the ding-a-ling and I live in a family space so I can't just leave it for anyone to see.

So is there a way I can get the book with some alternative cover or ebook is the only option? I would prefer a book though 😭

Ok so I'm not that deep into tech, I've mostly just been paying attention because of the whole AI boom, but I stumbled onto something about ASML and it kind of broke my brain a little.

So apparently this one company makes the machines that basically every advanced chip in the world gets made with. Not the chips themselves, just to be clear, but the actual machine (EUV lithography, if that's the term) that companies like TSMC and Samsung need to print the tiny circuits. And nobody else on earth can build a machine like it.

That's insane to me? Like we're this deep into "everything runs on chips" as a society and there's a single point of failure that quiet basically nobody talks about outside tech circles.

What I don't get is why nobody's caught up yet. I know China's been trying, and the US has thrown money at domestic chip stuff with the CHIPS Act, but from what I can tell nobody's even close. Is it just patents and IP lockup, or is this actually one of those problems where you can't just throw money at it and expect results? Also heard Canon is trying some totally different approach (nanoimprint?) instead of copying EUV, curious if that has legs.

Not trying to fearmonger, genuinely just want to understand why this hasn't been solved yet given how much is riding on it. Genuinely, it just sounds so scary to me because we literally survive on the tech.

I publish through IngramSpark and overall it works well for me, but I ran into an issue and wanted to ask if it could have been handled differently. I looked around for an answer and keep getting the same response, which is no.

I had a book already published, but the trim size needed to change because the original size was not right.

I was wondering if I could simply update the trim size in the metadata under IngramSpark title data and then revise the files. I kept hearing that this was the wrong approach, and that the ISBN is already tied to a specific trim size. But I got my ISBNs through Bowker, and there is no section during registration where I have to assign a trim size to an ISBN. This has left me pretty confused, and I am not sure what I should have done instead because I ended up making whole new titles, ISBNs and published it again.

Basically, I want to know if changing the trim size metadata and revising the files would have actually worked, since that is what I assumed it would do. Or is that not correct? I am also wondering what I should do if something like this comes up again in the future.

So I put a book on ingramspark purely for just printing. Now after it got approved and all, I ended making 3 orders for its hardcover copies on 29 June. It is July 15 and the order status is still on printing. I have contacted support numerous times and I gotten no response. I call their support number, it's just an automated message. I am completely exhausted right now and have no idea what to do. I don't know if the printing location got a flood or God knows what but there has been literally no update whatsoever.

What can I do or can someone tell me the most likely reason just to be assured? I literally paid for this, their support is so horrible for a company this big.

So I have never published audiobook before, I've done print and ebook a lot but never an audiobook, nor do I know the correct platform for it, I've heard ACX but still just getting into it. What I need to know is how do I determine if my audiobook files, let's say my mp3 files are publish ready that it won't encounter problems in publishing. How will I know there's no problem? What is the streamline process of it all. Would appreciate this.

So I have never published audiobook before, I've done print and ebook a lot but never an audiobook, nor do I know the correct platform for it, I've heard ACX but still just getting into it. What I need to know is how do I determine if my audiobook files, let's say my mp3 files are publish ready that it won't encounter problems in publishing. How will I know there's no problem? What is the streamline process of it all. Would appreciate this.

I do not have clear details on this, It's been a while. So let's say I buy from Steam both Bannerlord and the DLC expansion War Sails.

Now, modders are god-given heroes to any gaming community but they're people and working for free most of the time and they cannot keep up with updates for every new patch.

Is it possible to downgrade my patch? Like let's say I only play a certain patch of which I can buy multiple coexisting compatible mods? Is that possible?

I've played bannerlord and I am more than satisfied with how battles are, though I love improvement mods on battle but what I really need once and for all is the improvement and fleshing out RPG aspects, like diplomacy, politics and criminal enterprises, like if you are too good of a player that conquered kingdoms, the AI recognize it, realistic behavior, actual grudges, options to do more than just execute a prisoner, revolts like all of that.

But obviously there are mods but not compatible mods, so does anyone know a list of these mods that work together without conflict and overhauls your gameplay experience?

Now I have recently been having problems with Ebook regarding IngramSpark. I don't know if the system is glitching or what but this definitely has something to do with the system or something.

Like right when I reach the Confirmation Stage, I get this error which I cannot make a whiff of sense of. I have no idea what it means, it gives me this:

Please note the following:

• An error occurred pricing your order.

And I have no idea what it even means by that. I have ensured pricing is correct, I have ensured the metadata is correct. I have seen everything and it's all good. Worst part is, I was able to publish the paperback and hardcover of the book without a problem but on ebook, I am getting errors. Currently is this error but then the error changes when I redo after save and exit. Can anyone help or should I just go and ask ingram itself?

So my titles are available when I open my ingram account but I see they are not visible when I look for them online, so I saw it wasn't enabled for distribution and the reason it gave was "Title is not permitted for Distribution.

Now I want to know what is the reason for this? It doesn't gives me a clear reason. Can it be possibly because my book contains explict crude photos? Nudity, pictures of genitalia and other nsfw images? Like not straight on pornography. I am really am stumped right now and would appreciate any help.

I tend to go on subreddits and somehow end up in the comments arguing about ai. And it's always ends with "I'm not reading all that"

Like they come with dumb arguments, wrong information, and idiotic reasoning. I go all my way to disprove every single thing and I'm met not with refutation with cited information or anything slightly intellectual. It's just "won't read all that" or "won't be reading that novel" anything more than 3 sentences is a novel to them.

Like, what do they expect for me to just disprove everything in one sentence? These guys are not real, I repeat, they're NPCs running on fearmongering sentences. They judge by the vibe, they haven't read a single argument.

You will never win with people who are acting blind when met with information. Antis have 0 basis and they're so far in the sunk cost fallacy that they rather avoid to answer than admit they're wrong.

Anti ai people are bunch of ignorant NPCs waiting for the next tweet by the person who writes their opinions so they can say what the people they like say. They find independent thinking heresy.

I mean besides local people I know, I wanna know if there's like a more reputable place that offers custom built PCs on installment. I find myself paying installments lot easier than saving. Does anyone know where I can actually get that? Strictly not second hand.