Get hooked on gematria. Throw out critical thinking and embrace confirmation bias.
Step #2
Wait for professionally manufractured (not a typo) book from noted expert in field to become available.
Step #3
Wait.
Step #4
Wait some more.
Step #5
Prod author of book for actual book.
Step #6
Wait a bit more.
Step #7
Buy unedited pdf version of that book.
Step #8
Wait more
Step #9
More waiting
Step #10
After author basically does this,🖕🏻, make your own book.
Or at least the Cliff Notes super abbreviated gematria guide.
In this post, Magnifying glass included?, Amanda’s book making skills are displayed. Guess she got tired of waiting, made her own book and shared the image which Hubbard proudly displays. Now this presents some questions. Is the print really, really, really, really tiny? Is the book really just an EXTREMELY abbreviated reference guide? Or can Amanda, like other gematria mooks seem capable of, allowed to bend the laws of physics? The math doesn’t work. Common sense doesn’t work. For those that don’t want to blemish their computer accessing the FTFM blog, here’s the image. Ask yourself, does this really look like a 773 page book??
When you show a book off you can make things more obvious than laying (lying?) it flat on a blanket or whatever the background is here. You can stand it up, prop something behind it so it doesn’t topple over, put it on a shelf, take more than one picture (how about one with some actual printed pages displayed??). Although, I expect all that’s too much to expect if there’s no hardcover spine to support a book like here: http://cleardisplays.com/book-display/ Pick your own display site, you have lots of time while waiting for the edited, bound, promised book.
The scale is hard to figure if you focus on trying to guess the thickness based on depth from the background. The damning part is the SPIRAL COIL, combined with the announcement of how many pages the book has ballooned into. So I got to do me some maths.
A ream of paper is 500 sheets. Approximately 52 millimeters. The largest commercially available spiral coil I found was listed at 60 millimeters. Here’s a chart showing offerings ending at 50 mm. https://spiralbinding.com/p/101412/Plastic-Coil/4-1-Pitch-Plastic-Coil-12-Length. Now if you’re getting ahead of me this technically works. Converting to inches, 52 millimeters is about 2 inches. 387 leafs or sheets, half the size of the book 773 pages is about 3/4ths the thickness of a ream of paper. We’re at 1.5 inches. That’s about 1/2 the length of a credit card or any wallet sized card. Here’s a nice photo of a comparison of some unnamed size spiral coil vs. a full ream.
Do you see where we are headed here?
A 60 mm spiral coil, which would be huge compared to what you are used to seeing, can hold a 1.5 inch book, but there’s not a lot of room to spare. Common retail notebooks are hardly ever, if ever at all, bigger than 200 pages. These are bound by machines. If you get too much book to free space ratio it gets too hard to turn the pages. This is mostly friction, which is useful for sexual enjoyment (or so I’ve been told) so we’re not going to outlaw friction anytime soon.
But the real questions, and these can be asked based on the original photo, how did you just happen to have some super gimongous spiral coil available and exactly how did you twirl it into place through nearly four hundred leafs of paper?? A spiral coil is a terrible idea for a large book. You can’t add pages one at a time, you have to feed the coil through the entire pack of paper. Offices, like the one I worked at, use a machine to prop the binding open so you can feed in a page at a time. Those coils don’t look like the one in this picture. If I had to guess including taking a shot at depth from book cover to blanket combined with estimate of practicality and people’s tolerance to put up with an unpleasant task- a couple dozen pages, maybe??
Of course, if I’m wrong about some of my assumptions and calcs,, well it doesn’t explain why Amanda’s super binding skills haven’t been utilized to avoid using a real publisher. Buy a lot of gimongous coil, teams of 4:1 pitch prepunched copy paper, find an all night copy shop and hire some part time help for Amanda to train on her super coiling secrets. Then the book could actually be sold to people that aren’t already into gematria, which I thought was kind of the point. Good luck not bending the coils stuffing it through the holes.
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