I’ve prepared a free e-book on Buenos Aires pulled from the archives of my blog. The e-book is 57 pages. There is still a lot more content in the archives that did not make it to the e-book. I have at least 150 more pages of content that easily could be converted to book form. If there’s enough interest, then I might do that.
The e-book is not just a reformat of the archives. The material has been edited and arranged in a different order than the archives. Many of the posts reflect a specific part of my time in Buenos Aires and I tried to retain that perspective in the e-book for those sections. In many ways, think of the e-book as the first few chapters of a much longer work. The rest is in the archives and might someday come to book form. Plus, I still have a lot more to write about Buenos Aires.
December 6th, 2007 at 5:37 pm
All that for free? Thanks for putting this together… I look forward to reading it!
December 6th, 2007 at 5:58 pm
Thanks, Jeff! Guau!
BTW, I love the roofline logo, great!
December 6th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
Robert - Yep, all for free. I was thinking this format would be easier for some to go back and read parts of the archives they might have missed before.
Cherie - The roofline logo, layout, and graphics were all done by Ceci. I’m certainly no designer.
December 7th, 2007 at 4:26 am
Thanks Jeff for the e-book. I do like your writing style and tone - there is this understated Zen like calmness to it.
December 7th, 2007 at 4:40 am
MH - No one has ever described my writing quite like that. Thanks for the very nice compliment.
December 7th, 2007 at 1:08 pm
very cool. going to download and read.
best
December 7th, 2007 at 4:45 pm
Good idea! Congratulations!
December 8th, 2007 at 11:18 am
Great! COngratulations, Jeff!
December 9th, 2007 at 11:16 am
well done! nice fonts. nice liberal use of ‘ground’ [vis' 'figure']…thanks.
December 9th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
Thanks Jeff. Now that I have time off I hope to read it. :)
December 10th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
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December 13th, 2007 at 8:00 am
Very cool initiative. Thanks much for this, the ebook is absolutely great.
December 13th, 2007 at 12:07 pm
Thanks everybody for the great comments!
March 5th, 2008 at 8:44 am
Found all your info really useful. One thing,hope you don’t mind - we are hoping to visit BA in September this year and would like to find a old style hotel - equivalent of 4 star but not a holiday inn type. Can you recommend any - we want to walk everywhere possible so would need to be fairly central. We’re in 60 age group. Would really appreciate your reply. Many thanks
Carol
March 5th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
Hi Carol,
Thanks for your comment. Let me put on my “thinking cap” about a possible hotel and I’ll get back to you.
March 24th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
wow. incredible stumble of mine to find your blog and the ebook. i’m in awe. with stacks of student work to grade, i have instead made a hot mug of mate cocido and settled down to read every post you have written. much better way to spend a monday night! only 4 months to go until i can return to bs as…
keep up the great blog. te felecito, yet at the same time, curse you as i wonder if i will ever do any work again at night?
paz.
emily
March 24th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
Hi Emily, Thanks for your comment. Have fun reading!
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