Expectations from a Guidebook

[Raggydoll]

I thoroughly enjoyed Baba studios guidebook for the Alice tarot. It was perfect in all regards! Sometimes I will just read the book and don't take out the cards 😆

[Raggydoll]

1 hour ago, gregory said:

 

A recent acquisition has the Waite-Smith deck art done by Patricia Smith.... I haven't been able to face the rest of the book.

Ryder Waite - and its sister, the Raider Waite - show up far too often on forums - including here. I never QUITE like to correct....

 

I do actually like ALL Barbara Moore's guidebooks. I will never understand why some idiot (LLewellyn, let's be honest) packed Ellershaw's book in with the Gilded as the "Easy Tarot" kit, instead of Barbara's, which is so on point that I thought Ciro had written it...

I think its different when someone doesn't get the spelling right on forums. Sometimes we're in a rush and other times its the auto correct function that plays tricks on us. Or perhaps the person is dyslexic. (Or, like me, has English as their second language). But when you're writing a book you need to double check these things (or have someone that checks it for you). 

 

Patricia Smith and Ryder Wait. They do make a good couple. 

 

[katrinka]

Ahem.

THIS is Patricia Smith. 

 

[katrinka]

43 minutes ago, Raggydoll said:

I think its different when someone doesn't get the spelling right on forums. Sometimes we're in a rush and other times its the auto correct function that plays tricks on us. Or perhaps the person is dyslexic. (Or, like me, has English as their second language). But when you're writing a book you need to double check these things (or have someone that checks it for you). 

 

All of that, plus typos, speech-to-text, and probably a gazillion other things. 

 

But a book IS different. People should have proofreaders for that. 

[Pierre]

On 11/18/2020 at 2:18 PM, vulprix said:

Idk if anyone has said this yet but I found this hilarious 😄 Full agreement!

"Wrappeth in silk" - hilarious - absolutely!

 

But just my $0.02 CDN here, I do like a book that speaks to the deck. No history, no thought process, and not 100 pages or anything. I'm thinking the really clever books like the one in the Santa Muerte deck that uses language that fits the imagery. Vinitski does a great job with the Venetian Tarot telling a different story, but still using the same card meanings pretty much. As a writer, I think this is what needs to be there. The deck should read like any other deck for any tarot reader, but the flourishes and descriptions, especially for cards that stray a bit from the predictable, are always nice, especially if well thought-out and bringing something different to the table. Then maybe people WILL read your LWB.

 

But don't get all metaphysical and new-agey, no one needs that and it does not add to the deck - ANY deck. Just the facts ma'am.