Dear Friends. . .

This book is a tool that will be used to make another book.

For now, this book-tool is conceptually a series of folders bound together.

It has a front and back, it forms a sequence.

What goes in each folder?

Interviews

Artifacts

Projects

Essays

Visual essays

Technical documentation (contract documents, shop drawings)

Collections of similar things

What is in between the folders?

What organizes a manual or guide?

One instance:

Take it out of the box

Get it hooked up

Install the software

Basic use

Advanced use

Maintenance

Solving problems

Where to get help

Specifications

Index (!)

Glossary (unified, or each section has its own?)

Each section opens with a mini contents page

FORMS, FOLD, SIZES

“THE WORLD IS REAL”