I was waffling between desert and coastline, and decided to go with the desert, since that’s basically where I am IRL as well. I post a lot of pics of wildlife around me, so I think it fits!
I chose Island! Because I thought of my website as a short but unique experience, perfect for a day trip!
i’m still stuck on what to pick :|
I NEED them to just let me buy a digital copy. I’m on my hands and knees, please.
Yeah, you’d think it would be easy for them to sell PDFs for $5; they probably had to generate a PDF for the printer.
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It’s so easy to smack a PDF on a site like Itch.io, set up the account for payments, and then sell them. It’s straight up free money. I don’t know why they won’t do something like that.
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I wasn’t planning on submitting, but when I saw the options in the landscapes thing I knew had to: My site is a fjord.
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So easy. My website is a cave. Thanks for sharing this.
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I’m sure they could provide a PDF, but I’m also sure they have their artistic reasons for not doing so.
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I asked them about that too (spesifically about a “self-printable version”) and their reason for not having one was that it “wasn’t as nice”. I’m not sure what this means exactly, beyond the books unfortunantly being harder to get :,)
Balancing something as art and as being accessible (in this case, people simply being able to get it at all despite the high demand and quick sell outs) is always a touchy subject, I find. Hard to find a good answer.
That being said, the fact that this is a reference as well as art means that I think accessibility probably should be focused on a bit more. A digital PDF or self-printed copy may not be the prettiest or intended way to get that information… but it’s information. And what’s important is that people now have it.
But I mostly agree with others in finding it more confusing than anything else that this isn’t an option. This is just my explanation for why that reasoning doesn’t move me much.
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Site’s not primed enough to consider submitting, but I would go with farm considering how I tend to plant parts of me in it and build up on that.
Yeah, I can’t personally wrap my head around choosing “niceness” over accessibility when it comes to art and information.
The data preservation part of me is also not a huge fan of it. Like can’t even slap a PDF version on archive.org and call it a day? Not a lot of people have the means or the thought to scan their hard to get books either, so it’s kinda just lost to the ether, which is sad. It’s already so easy to lose smaller websites.
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there are so many design (both interior and web design) books and magazines (which i often use to find sites that once were) that are not preserved digitally and are either so expensive to buy or straight up impossible to buy. somewhere they sit, unscanned and forgotten. it makes me sad everyday…
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Some of you may be too young to remember but the original phone books that this project was based off were only ever available physically, were delivered to your door annually and never had digital or PDF copies.
That said. I would love a digital version that I could use within ChatGPT for easy access. 
I’ve gone with island, finally. fLaMEd fury is self-contained, but also connected, like a series of islands are, but though hyperlinks.
I know I’m one of the youngsters here, but I do know about normal phone books. We used to get them every year. With those you had the physical book with your physical phone. For this, the phone is on their website: Dial-a-site - Internet Phone Book
It’s a digital phone with no digital phone book.
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I don’t think it was viable for them to send out physical phone diallers to load websites on ;)
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Blue pages, yellow pages, or white pages.
I only ever looked at the yellow pages.
Oh trust me, I know what a phone book is. Other family members had them for a time.
And I would prefer to get a physical copy if I can! I just want to be able to get a copy at all if it sells out within hours again, before I even have a chance to try and order :,) that’s my real issue: once it’s gone it’s gone and if you were in class or otherwise taking care of life stuff when sales went live like I was then too bad! You don’t get a copy, and may never get one.
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I’m not sure if they mentioned this anywhere, or if it’s just something I got based off of vibes, but I always figured the reason for no digital version is that it’s more on the side of “art project” than “digital archiving.” The people involved are based in the art community and it seems they approach their projects from that standpoint rather than the preservation perspective we tend to have.
That said, I agree with the reasons for why you all want a digital version, as well 
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