[Booki-dev] epub <-> booki-zip round trip

[rkumar]

Very nice, Douglas!

I round-tripped illinoiswayofbea00mill through the system, and it worked
great!

-raj


On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 09:52 +1300, Douglas Bagnall wrote:
> There's bugs, but it generally works.
> 
> You make the booki-zip from here:
> 
> http://objavi.halo.gen.nz/espri.cgi
> 
> Where the thing you put in is the internet archive ID.  For example:
> 
> http://objavi.halo.gen.nz/espri.cgi?book=oldfrenchfairyta00sgrich
> 
> The http library doesn't like the redirects on some of the books, in
> which case you'll see a 500 error.  I don't know exactly what the issue
> is, but it seems fixable.
> 
> Then you go here:
> 
> http://objavi.halo.gen.nz/epubjavi.cgi
> 
> The archive ones are at the bottom of the drop-down as it sorts upper
> case first.
> 
> There is some problem with the ncx file, so the table of contents
> doesn't work.  The file looks right to me, just not to fbreader, so I
> don't know what is wrong but I expect it is fixable.
> 
> Some of the metadata is a bit messed up (e.g. it sticks in a FLOSS
> Manuals authorship claim), but most of it seems intact.
> 
> With fbreader the books look visually the same after the cycle, but I
> don't think fbreader uses the stylesheets so there might be issues there.
> 
> I'll be writing some tests today to ensure that the journey is in fact
> round.
> 
> 
> 
> Douglas
> 
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