Has anyone had any luck finding the promised “Club” on Mary Bergin’s website? That is, the one for those of us who purchased her tutorial?
I’ve emailed the contact email address at the website but no reply so far (over a week).
Meanwhile, my progress on the tutorial has been put on hiatus while I get rid of a nasty sinus condition. Right now I don’t enough breath control to get through two measures of the simplest exercise.
The kindle’s typesetting engine is an utter desaster for anything beyond pure text, howeaver the kindle is not the only option. PDF on a computer/tablet is perfectly readable. I keep all my music in ABC or pdf format.
Interesting choice, preferring digital to hard copy. I have recently discarded a massive ABC collection, and moved all my collected tutorial material etc to DVD (for viewing on my television) or audio CD. The reason is simple: I find staring at a screen hard on my eyes, and too much computer use in general is starting to afflict me with repetitive strain injury and general bodily debility caused by sitting in one spot statically for long periods.
I have come to the (for me) inescapable conclusion that the computer is a handy tool for locating useful material - but NOT for actually using that material, and I am on an all-out campaign to restrict my computer use to the absolute minimum.
Screens being hard on the eyes is caused by the brightness of the screen being set substantially higher than the ambiant lighting. In effect you are thus stairing at a verry bright light bulb for hours on end. Just drop the brightness and the problem goes away (for me anyway).
A simple way of checking this is to take a picture of the screen with a camera, if it blows out (glares past it’s edge) or the background looks verry dark in comparison, it’s too bright.
For some reason all new screens are sold set to the max, which is almost always far too bright.
Anouther thing you can do is to change the background colous to something off-white. There is an option in adobe reader to do such on PDF files. Globaly chainging the background colour can only be done on linux with any consistency. Many windows apps set there own background colour and give no option of overriding it.