ONE MILLION
DOLLAR COMPANY.

WORK 73 / A ONE-SHEET BOOK DESK

A Little
Book.

Eight pages.
Something of your own.

Write a small story, poem or sequence. Read it in order, then keep one flat sheet to print, cut and fold.

The Old Coat is an original company fiction to begin with. Its people and events are invented.

The Old Coat is an original short fiction. Change a page, or start a blank book of your own.

PAGE 1 / Front cover

Leave room
for a page turn.

Moves carry the whole page. Whatever is first is the cover; whatever is eighth is the back. Undo keeps the last 20 document changes.

Titles have up to two printed lines and words up to sixteen. Your original spaces and line breaks stay in the editable book. Shorten a page that does not fit; the print never shrinks your text.

UPRIGHT READING PAGE1 / 8
Upright page 1: The Old Coat
Read all eight pages, in order

Position 1 is the front cover and position 8 the back. Exact original text is available beneath each page.

  1. 1Front cover
    Page 1: The Old Coat
    Exact words, page 1

    The Old Coat

    We had agreed to give it away.
  2. 2Inside page
    Page 2: By the door
    Exact words, page 2

    By the door

    The charity bag was open. We laid the coat across a chair and emptied the pockets.
  3. 3Inside page
    Page 3: The second pocket
    Exact words, page 3

    The second pocket

    Two coins. A button. Then a cinema ticket, folded twice.
  4. 4Inside page
    Page 4: The film
    Exact words, page 4

    The film

    We read the title aloud. Neither of us could remember it.
  5. 5Inside page
    Page 5: Outside
    Exact words, page 5

    Outside

    We remembered the rain. There had been a bus. We had watched it leave.
  6. 6Inside page
    Page 6: The way home
    Exact words, page 6

    The way home

    “You said it was close.”
“You wanted to walk.”
We had kept hold of each other’s sleeves.
  7. 7Inside page
    Page 7: The pocket
    Exact words, page 7

    The pocket

    We folded the ticket along its old creases and put it back. The bag was still open.
  8. 8Back cover
    Page 8: On the hook
    Exact words, page 8

    On the hook

    We hung up the coat. Then we took the bag downstairs.

KEEP BEFORE YOU GO

Words to return to.
A sheet to give away.

Nothing is uploaded or saved automatically. The two files do different jobs.

Editable book · JSON

All eight original titles and bodies, their order and paper size. Keep this even when a page does not fit. Selection and Undo history stay here.

Keep editable book (JSON) ↓

Printing sheet · SVG

One passive flat sheet, arranged for A4 · 297 × 210 mm. It carries the book’s text and print guides; reopen the JSON to edit.

Keep printing sheet (SVG) ↓
Inspect the flat printing sheet

A4 · 297 × 210 mm · landscape · one side. The upper row is deliberately upside down. This is the printing arrangement, not reading order.

All eight pages in the flat printing arrangement, with folds and the central slit

Continue a kept book.

Choose one editable JSON kept by this desk, up to 16 KiB. Read all eight pages and its paper size before replacing your current book. Your current book stays until you choose Replace.

FROM ONE SHEET

Print. Crease.
One small cut.

  1. Use the matching A4 or US Letter paper. Print the SVG on one side, landscape, at actual size / 100%. Turn off fit-to-page. Viewer and printer margins vary; inspect the preview first.
  2. Crease the dashed quarter-width and middle guides, then open the sheet flat again. Keep the printed side visible while finding the page positions.
  3. Make only the solid central slit: along the horizontal middle, from one-quarter to three-quarters of the sheet width. The outer edges remain joined.
  4. Fold along the long middle crease. Push the two ends toward each other so the slit opens into a cross; gather the pages with page 1 outside as the front cover.

Print and fold one proof to check scale and page order before making copies.