But there’s only so many lights you can turn off before it becomes hard to read.
This would dramatically increase the expense of the ritual books, and probably encourage scrolls over actual books, but glow in the dark ink is a thing you can buy. It would both solve this logistical problem (though creating another one or two) and add to the coolness factor.
I believe it’s permanent, but haven’t worked with it.
The problem with estimating the expense is that most of the ink you can buy isn’t suitable for inkjet printing, and so you would be looking at going to a print shop for a specialty run. You can buy glow in the dark paper for ~$4 a page, but then that requires printing everywhere but the text in black ink (front and back). It looks like it would be much cheaper to make using an empty cartridge and glow powder. (video)
You could just print black lettering on it and have the whole page glow. Also, you could use the glow-in-the-dark ink to hand-write the songs. No printer worries there.
That would work, but a glowing page would probably be a light source on the scale of candles. Handwriting the books is an option, but one that requires quite a bit of time: the extended ritual book is 80 pages; I estimate the original books were ~40, with text on only about half of those pages, but with just 25 participants you’re talking about a full ream of handwritten material.
This would dramatically increase the expense of the ritual books, and probably encourage scrolls over actual books, but glow in the dark ink is a thing you can buy. It would both solve this logistical problem (though creating another one or two) and add to the coolness factor.
How expensive is it, and is it permanent?
If it is permanent and I was able to settle on a couple songs that I knew I would sing for multiple years, it could be worth the expense.
I believe it’s permanent, but haven’t worked with it.
The problem with estimating the expense is that most of the ink you can buy isn’t suitable for inkjet printing, and so you would be looking at going to a print shop for a specialty run. You can buy glow in the dark paper for ~$4 a page, but then that requires printing everywhere but the text in black ink (front and back). It looks like it would be much cheaper to make using an empty cartridge and glow powder. (video)
You could just print black lettering on it and have the whole page glow. Also, you could use the glow-in-the-dark ink to hand-write the songs. No printer worries there.
That would work, but a glowing page would probably be a light source on the scale of candles. Handwriting the books is an option, but one that requires quite a bit of time: the extended ritual book is 80 pages; I estimate the original books were ~40, with text on only about half of those pages, but with just 25 participants you’re talking about a full ream of handwritten material.