15 · A book for print

Published entries become a volume: a title page, a table of contents, running heads, bookmarks, codes leading from paper back to the site. A5 format, with variants prepared for particular printers, because each counts its margins its own way.

Typesetting does not happen on the fly at the press of a button. Setting a hundred-page volume with photographs is a task of a dozen-odd seconds and more memory than a single request has at its disposal. The file is therefore made in advance, sits in storage beside the site, and the button merely serves it.

The button appears once a series has gathered a set number of entries, and it may be left off entirely. This is a feature for series that have grown into a paper form, not a default element of every site.