If I Could Mail You A Book : Translation Completed!

[hazevi]

Hey all!

 

As of yesterday, all 70 chapters of If I Could Mail You A Book (67 + 3 extras) have been uploaded, and it is now a complete translation! 

 

It needs a thorough beating in terms of revisions, and I need to fix the formatting for some of the earlier chapters because I only settled on consistent formatting about a quarter of the way through. The revision should take till about the end of the year. 

 

A very big thanks to everyone who supported it while it was updating, and welcome to everyone who wanted to wait for it to be completed to read it!

 

A special shoutout to auspice (@/riverofspring) for keeping me sane throughout, and thank you to @/douqi for consistently signal boosting it on twitter!

 

 

Once again, here are the important links:

carrd

Translation page

chapter 1

Okay, now for a bunch of reflections and ramblings:
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( Some personal thoughts on the book: )

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 ( The future of If I Could Mail You A Book: )

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( Some personal ramblings on the entire translation process: )

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( Some personal thoughts on baihe (modern baihe) )

 

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Personal future plans:

I have definitively settled on another project and am currently chipping away at it. I won't give too much of it away right now because I want to make sure that I'm not affected by anything, but the keywords are historical, enemies-to-lovers, and tension. For those who want a preview, this is the singular tweet that I've made about it. As per my habits that I've developed with If I Could Mail You A Book, I will at least stockpile 1/5 of the chapter count so that I can feel comfortable keeping a somewhat consistent update schedule. I think it can be expected at the start of next year, but just in case things go horribly wrong with my life I'll put the tentative start date around spring 2025. This is just so that I have the motivation of a soft deadline and am also not killing myself with a hobby. 

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One last note from me: For those wondering about an epub version, the truth is I'm not sure yet. Firstly, I personally have no experience in dealing with them/how to make one. Another thing about it is actually the fact that it implies that it'd have to be pretty 'official' and 'cleaned up', but I actually have a lot of personal notes on each chapter of the translation I have on my website. Out of a bit of selfishness I personally wish that people could acknowledge that and interact with me on my website instead, so currently I'm not sure about it at all and don't plan to make one immediately. I guess I could sway one way or another in the future. Thank you all for understanding.