{"id":334,"date":"2007-02-10T12:41:23","date_gmt":"2007-02-10T20:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?p=334"},"modified":"2016-10-12T10:12:14","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T17:12:14","slug":"create-a-literary-valentine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/create-a-literary-valentine","title":{"rendered":"Create a Literary Valentine"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Valentine\"<\/p>\n

Does your special someone love to read? This gift will put a little spark into your relationship on Valentine’s Day, and it’ll only cost you a little time and some printer paper: customized classic literature.<\/p>\n

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  1. Find a piece of romantic literature that’s in the public domain using Project Gutenberg<\/a>. Let’s use Pride and Prejudice<\/span><\/a> as our example.<\/li>\n
  2. Download the text to your computer and prepare it for eReading using these instructions<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  3. Now for the fun part: using the Find and Replace feature of your word processor, replace the names of the romantic leads with your name the name of your beloved. In Pride and Prejudice<\/span>, for instance, I would replace the name Elizabeth with the name Brenda (my wife), and replace the name Darcy with my last name.<\/li>\n
  4. Make sure you check for nicknames as well. Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice<\/span>, for example, also goes by Lizzy, so you would want to replace that name as well. Picking a familiar book will help with this.<\/li>\n
  5. Add page numbers, change fonts, do anything else you want to do to make it look fancy and\/or romantic, then print it out.<\/li>\n
  6. You can embellish it with pictures (clip-art or personal pictures from your digital collection), you can bind it in a decorative three-ring binder, or you can just staple the pages together and give it as-is.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Here are some other books that you might consider:<\/p>\n