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THE MANUAL

Printed: 22.09.19
Dimensions: 140x190mm
Cover stock: Rainbow (yellow) 120gsm
Text stock: Rainbow (yellow) 120gsm
Binding: Perfect bound (hot glue)
Pages: 104pp

THE MANUAL (How To Have A Number One The Easy Way) is a rather tongue-in-cheek guide to how to write a hit pop song, made by members of the KLF (Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty), who had a hit song in 1988 with Doctorin' the Tardis. This is a printed book made from a .txt file, found online, and still bearing the file path from the directory it came from as well as date and time of creation. I retained these details for this printed book (only substituting actual numbers for page number and page count) in reference to the provenance of the file, and to be clear about the raw nature of its origin. As a .txt, it doesn't contain any styling or italics and I wanted to retain this crudeness in the design.

There's also an audio description of the book, which might be interesting to convert via speech-to-text at some point: https://audioboom.com/posts/1730244-the-manual-on-how-to-get-a-numbet-one-hit-the-easy-way

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  Front cover

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  File path of the txt displayed as a running header

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  Bootleg acknowledgement