I will soon need a new phone. My previous one was released in 2015 and I’ve been using it for three years. That doesn’t sound like a long time, but in the current phone-per-year era of planned obsolence that’s an eternity. Because the phone is a Fairphone 2, I’ve upgraded the phone multiple times since getting it. It was running Android 5 when I got it, but now has Android 7. I’ve replaced the battery and the back cover. I’ve also upgraded the front and back cameras. ...
For the first six years the Yearbook of Finnish Game Studies was published as a PDF file, but few years ago I promised that we could publish it in three formats: as a webpage (HTML), as an electronic book (EPUB) and as a PDF. I’d read on how to create a workflow that makes all this possible, but I was more ambitious: I thought that I could more or less automate the creation of all three formats. We’re not quite there, but most of the conversion steps are automatic (see the postscript about PDF conversion for some of the problems). I figured all of this out by trial and error, and by following the excellent advice from the Institute of Network Cultures, especially their "From Print to Ebooks: a Hybrid Publishing Toolkit for the Arts". ...