Missed the Shift Happens crowdfunding campaign? We’re now on BackerKit with a pre-order store: same price as the final Kickstarter price for the time being! shifthappens.backerkit.com/hos Quantities are limited as we move towards printing the book. For more details about Shift Happens, a three-volume 1,376-page set of books about the history of keyboards, see shifthappens.site

@glennf does the original kickstarter pledge include the 3rd volume? I feel like it was added as a stretch goal, but going through BackerKit my pledge level still says “two volumes in slipcase”. Has that pledge text not been updated (or can it even be updated!)?

@mo All Kickstarter backers and all BackerKit pre-orders are for what we’re calling the “Kickstarter edition”: the two initially committed volumes and the bonus third volume! We couldn't change the KS text after launch—hadn't thought how that would look when you hit the BackerKit site and it *repeats* that. Looking into it! cc @mwichary

@mo @mwichary Thanks for letting us know—I went through and it turns out to be trivial to update the text in BackerKit. If you go back to your BackerKit account, you'll see the update mentions the third volume!

@glennf @mwichary looking at my summary I still don’t see the 3rd volume, but I’m at the theatre right now and I can’t do anything more than a quick check on my phone. I do believe you though!

@mo @mwichary Oh, gosh, that's yet ANOTHER place. BackerKit is pretty good, but you have to go to about 12 different places, not all of them linked, to manage all the text. We can probably write a 10,000-word document about what we want them to change when we're done, even though the system is generally pretty good.

@glennf @mwichary thank you both for making the updates. Maybe I’m the only person silly enough to wonder about it, but I appreciate you taking the time. Congrats on the project; I’m very excited for it.

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