You do not write a single word. Your family just talks, and we handle the writing, the design, the printing and the voice.
You review the full proof page by page. Nothing prints until you approve it. To handle a real book, come to the Tsim Sha Tsui studio, Monday to Friday, 1pm to 6pm.
呢本書唔係整畀你。
This book isn't for you.
你係幫你個孫,錄低一個佢永遠見唔到嘅人。You are recording, for a grandchild, a person they will never meet.
無酸紙、穿線釘裝、顏料墨。呢三個決定,淨係喺「讀者仲未出世」嘅前提下先有意思。一本得你自己睇嘅書,根本唔使用呢啲。Acid-free paper, sewn binding, pigment ink. Those three decisions only make sense if the reader has not been born yet. A book you are the only reader of needs none of them.
留埋幾位長輩?一齊做,慳返啲,仲有配套布面盒。
Capturing more than one elder? Bundle them and save, with a matching slipcase.
家族套裝(3位長輩,3本唔同嘅傳家版):HK$5,400,包1個配套布面盒Family Series (three elders, three different Heirloom books): HK$5,400, with a matching cloth slipcase
加印一本(同一本書,兄弟姊妹人手一本):原書一半價錢,心意版 HK$440,傳家版 HK$990An extra copy of the same book, one for each sibling: half the price of the book it copies, HK$440 for a Keepsake and HK$990 for an Heirloom
家族套裝 · HK$5,400Family Series · HK$5,400
加印心意版 · HK$440Extra Keepsake · HK$440
加印傳家版 · HK$990Extra Heirloom · HK$990
加印,係加印你嗰本A reprint is a reprint of your book
加印一本,同原本嗰本一模一樣:心意版加印心意版,傳家版加印傳家版,同樣嘅紙、同樣嘅釘裝、同樣嘅QR。我哋唔會喺加印嗰陣幫你升級做另一本書。An extra copy is the same book again: a Keepsake reprints as a Keepsake, an Heirloom as an Heirloom, same paper, same binding, same voice QRs. We do not turn a reprint into an upgrade.
咁樣係公道啲。你第一本入面,好大部分係聽錄音、揀金句、寫成中英對照嘅章節、對返每一個QR,呢啲工夫做一次就做完。加印冇咗嗰份工夫,剩返實體成本,所以就係一半價錢。同原本一齊落單最抵,因為一次過印。This is simply the honest version. Most of your first book pays for listening to the recordings, choosing the quotes, writing the bilingual chapters and matching every QR to the right line, and that work happens once. A reprint skips all of it and leaves only the physical cost, which is why it is half the price. Cheapest when ordered together with the original, since both print in one run.