Digital Questbook - Traditionalists Look Away

[Ethica]

I got tired of taking ages to print off lovely questbooks only to realise I'd made spelling mistakes or wanted to revise them after they were played. Originally I was going to put them all onto an ipad but what I really wanted was something that could replace the questbooks and be stored exclusively with the HQ stuff.

So I'm putting the quests onto a digital photoframe. It has a touch screen so you can zoom in and quickly flip between quest, monster stats, rules and other notes. Dissapointingly the one I bought is a bit rubbish slow and flips wildly between pictures of it's own accord, but the idea is sound. Speaking of sound it also plays mp3s so I can put mood music on as I see fit.

I made a leather binding for it too. This took a few days of solid grafting. The leather stitching was so boring and took at least 6 hours in itself. I'm quite pleased with how it turned out though.

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[Sjeng]

that is simply amazing! awesome! great if you have too much cash lying around *sigh*

[Goblin-King]

This is so cool! That leather binder is incredible!

[torilen]

I've been thinking about doing this too - I have a whole mess of old D&D pdf's on my kindle fire.
(won it at a christmas party for work - not from "money laying around")
If I ever get into gaming again - if I have the time to - then I will definitely be using my kindle for that.

I too love the cover. Where did you get it - did you make it?

[Ethica]

that is simply amazing! awesome! great if you have too much cash lying around *sigh*

Thanks. I do have too much cash lying around these days. Total cost of project : £100.

[Ethica]

I've been thinking about doing this too - I have a whole mess of old D&D pdf's on my kindle fire.
(won it at a christmas party for work - not from "money laying around")
If I ever get into gaming again - if I have the time to - then I will definitely be using my kindle for that.

I too love the cover. Where did you get it - did you make it?

Does the kindle display PDFs? Yes made the cover. Leather work not that hard, this is my first endeavour. Just 3 bits of thick cardboard sandwiched between 2 a4 sized pieces of leather. Holes punched with a belt hole making tool and very long piece of leathervlace thread through. The photo frame Is attached with Velcro so I can remove it for recharging. The mentor m is cut out to show through to a third bit of leather underneath, this is also what makes the stitching in a groove. The clasp thing is held on with jeans rivets.

[torilen]

yes - the kindle will read pdf and text files. PDFs require the adobe app, I'm sure it is free
just like adobe reader. My kindle automatically came with this, if I remember correctly.
There is also an app you can use to read MS files - word, powerpoint, excel...this is what allows
me to read text files, if I remember right. You know...just normal text files, like one would get
from using notepad or something basic like that.

[cynthialee]

I have a Kindle Fire and would love to download HQ into it.

[el_flesh]

Thanx for another very clever idea! Having no Kindling, I have to stay out in the cold for the forseeable future.

[Big Bene]

Beautifully done!
I had ideas in the back of my head about making something like that for a fullsize laptop, but it's very low on my schedule.