Translation - publishing

After a real printed book (in Japanese) of mine was published in February (2013) I am not about to publish my third ebook. The first was my autobiography, also written FIRST in Japanese, which I later rewrote, not translated, in German.
Now I am about to publish my third ebook, this one in English, listing a few personal views about why I think the Japanese acupuncture is better suited for the world population than the Chinese "authentic" style. Hopefully, it will go online in about 2 weeks.
It will surely make me a lot of enemies. If I should disappear suddenly in the middle of the night ... try asking the NSA and their hit squads, the newly formed Japanese copy of that wonderful agency, the Japanese NSC, or maybe the Chinese mafia, scared to death of people expressing opinions not meeting the standardized party line ...

After writing these four books, I definitely feel, that formulating one's own ideas is more interesting than converting somebody elses ideas into another language.

Although none of my books has really sold, the ebooks do not sell at all, I am planning to work on three more. My next target is the translation of a book by a Zen priest who I met shortly after my arrival in Japan. An encounter that changed my life.

翻訳 - 出版

今年の２月に出版されたちゃんと印刷された本以外に今三冊の電子書籍 (Amazon, Kindle 版）を出版した（三冊目は多分来週辺り出来ある）。全部でこの一年で４冊、３ヶ国語（日本語、ドイツ語、英語）で。
頭の悪い肉体労働者としてちょっぴり自慢出来るのかもしれない。無論＝残念ながら、印刷物は僅かで、電子書籍が全く売れない。電子書籍で全世界を相手にしているのに少々がっかりしました。やり方が悪いだろう・・・
電子書籍のカバーを一列に：

だが、翻訳するより著作のほうが面白い。他人のアイデアを他の言語に変換させるのも悪くは無いが、自分の考えを少しずつ形作りは満足度が違う。

これから取り合えず一冊の本の翻訳に入り、その後自伝を英語に直して、そしてもう１０年以上前から書きたかったもう一冊を挑戦しよう。売れなくても。

"Automagical"

"is there any way of producing an automagical date in a XXX document?"

Wow. "Automagical" – you don't have to do anything, the date (a girl?) will work magic all by its own.
I also would love to have an automagical calendar.
No telling, what that thing might be able to do ...