Cees de GrootFeb 17

Well, today is the day. I'm finally "sorta happy enough to pull the trigger" on publishing the book I've been working on for a very long time. It's a technical history book: by a techie, for techies (although I think that between all the code samples, there is plenty of meat for "tech-adjacent" and "tech-interested" people). It tells the story of the Lisp programming language, invented by a genius called John McCarthy in 1958 and today still going strong (to the extent that many people see it as the most powerful programming language in existence).

And this is a time for shameless self promotion, even if you don't plan on buying the book, please repost :-). Self-publishing is self-marketing, so there we go.

If you do buy and read it, please let me know how you liked it!

The book landing page, https://berksoft.ca/gol, has links to all outlets where you can buy the book,

Show threadNortherly GooseFeb 19
@cdegroot The Kobo EPUB version makes it very difficult to see the formulas in the first few chapter. It's very blurry. The following images is a X2 magnification.
Show threadCees de GrootFeb 19
@NortherlyGoose strange. What version are you using? I've tested on my laptop and on my Libra and things looked fine there.
Show threadNortherly GooseFeb 19

@cdegroot I purchased it directly from KOBO and this is on the KOBO Libra 2. Publisher date is 2/1/26. Kobo software version 4.44.23552 (11/13/25).

Can you try downloading from KOBO to check?

Thank you!

Show threadCees de GrootFeb 21
@NortherlyGoose Yes, I'll do that tomorrow (planning to push out an update to the epubs anyway).
Show threadNortherly GooseFeb 21

@cdegroot Thank you for looking into this. Also, why is Chapter 1 before Part 1? I normally see Parts then Chapters within Parts.

Thank you for writing this book.

Show threadCees de Groot
@NortherlyGoose I felt it was an introductory chapter, so kept it before Part I where it really didn't fit.
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