Today I received from the printhouse a printout of our book on numerical methods ("Numerical Methods in Practice", written in Finnish). The pile of paper was heftier than I expected, at 415 pages. Everything seemed to be ok: no problems with gray-scale tones, or thin lines in figures. All pages were aligned correctly on the paper. So, now we just have to wait a week or so for the book appear in book form. For me the physical book, journal, or a magazine is still the real measure of having published.