[FM Discuss] "An E-Book Revolution" should become "E-Book Enlightenment"

James Simmons nicestep at gmail.com
Mon Dec 20 14:54:21 PST 2010 

Adam,

The work I did will not be that hard to replace, fortunately.  I'm
going to wait until the other issues with the book seem to be taken
care of before I do the work again.

James Simmons


On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 3:34 PM, adam <adam at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> hey
>
> On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 12:39 -0600, James Simmons wrote:
>> Adam,
>>
>> The link works, I'm OK with the shorter title, but other stuff seems
>> messed up.  For instance, the "Attachments" tab shows NO attachments,
>> when it should show a lot.  Also, all the work I did on the book in
>> the last couple of days is gone.  I renamed the chapter titles to use
>> a mixture of upper and lower case and they're all back to ALL CAPS and
>> a whole new chapter I wrote on calibre is missing.
>>
>
> ah damn.i am very very sorry. that was my stupid mistake. an admin
> blunder on my part. i had to delete the old manual because something was
> not working. i had the idea you were not working on it but didnt check.
> I am _very_ sorry for this James. You can take some solace that this is
> the first time it has happened in fm it the entire time we have been
> going but a pity it was you who had to be the first...
>
>> The links to the images look OK, and in fact I remember correcting
>> each and every one of them by hand, so if they needed to be corrected
>> again it makes me wonder what other work I might have lost.  I'd feel
>> a hell of a lot better about the images if I could see a list of them
>> in the "Insert Images" dialog.  THAT'S totally empty too.
>>
>
> both are bugs, Aco is looking at them I believe...
>
>> People do rename their books and Booki needs to handle that a lot
>> better.  In TWiki the book was called ReadingandSugar internally but
>> you could give it any title you wanted and change it whenever.  That's
>> the way it should be for Booki.
>>
>
> yes. i agree. if you get time to file that in the issue tracker...again,
> sorry for the blunder
>
> adam
>
>> James Simmons
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 6:34 AM, adam <adam at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> > for the enlightenment book...
>> >
>> > the image links should be:
>> > "static/nameofimage.xxx" eg
>> >
>> > static/my_first_ebook.png
>> >
>> > thats actually the format for all books. so if anyone has an issue with
>> > images u just need to check that those references are correct.
>> >
>> > So, James - Aco is quite busy at the mo, I asked if he could wave his
>> > magic regex at it and fix the inks in the database for you...but if he
>> > doesnt get to it in time for you...then you can go through and manually
>> > edit the image links. I did the first chapter. happy to help out if it
>> > turns into too much of a grind for you
>> >
>> > adam
>> >
>> > On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 11:09 +0100, adam wrote:
>> >> ok,
>> >>
>> >> i think the link is fixed. please check.
>> >>
>> >> I called it:
>> >> E-Book Enlightenment
>> >>
>> >> not :
>> >>
>> >> E-Book Enlightenment: Reading And Leading With One Laptop Per Child
>> >>
>> >> since i think in the editing environment the short name is better to
>> >> use...
>> >>
>> >> there is still the image links to change...i'll have a coffee and look
>> >> at that :)
>> >>
>> >> adam
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Sun, 2010-12-19 at 10:13 -0600, James Simmons wrote:
>> >> > Adam,
>> >> >
>> >> > FYI it looks like more than the images are broken.  I'm getting:
>> >> >
>> >> > DoesNotExist at /ebookenlightenment/edit/
>> >> >
>> >> > Book matching query does not exist.
>> >> >
>> >> > Request Method:     GET
>> >> > Request URL:        http://booki.flossmanuals.net/ebookenlightenment/edit/
>> >> > Django Version:     1.2.3
>> >> > Exception Type:     DoesNotExist
>> >> > Exception Value:
>> >> >
>> >> > Book matching query does not exist.
>> >> >
>> >> > Exception Location:
>> >> >     /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Django-1.2.3-py2.5.egg/django/db/models/query.py
>> >> > in get, line 341
>> >> > Python Executable:  /usr/bin/python
>> >> > Python Version:     2.5.2
>> >> > Python Path:        ['/var/www/booki-www/lib/',
>> >> > '/var/www/booki-www/lib/django/',
>> >> > '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c12dev_r85381-py2.5.egg',
>> >> > '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/simplejson-2.1.2-py2.5.egg',
>> >> > '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Django-1.2.3-py2.5.egg',
>> >> > '/usr/lib/python2.5', '/usr/lib/python2.5/plat-linux2',
>> >> > '/usr/lib/python2.5/lib-tk', '/usr/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload',
>> >> > '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages',
>> >> > '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages',
>> >> > '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PIL',
>> >> > '/var/lib/python-support/python2.5']
>> >> > Server time:        Sun, 19 Dec 2010 09:40:41 +0100
>> >> >
>> >> > I appreciate your efforts on this.
>> >> >
>> >> > Thanks,
>> >> >
>> >> > James Simmons
>> >> >
>> >> > On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Adam Hyde <adam at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> >> > > Link is fixed. Images are broken, will fix tomorrow. Adam
>> >> > >
>> >> > > adam <adam at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> >> > >
>> >> > >>ok, i changed it but screwed it up somehow. I will fix it on Monday
>> >> > >>morning (xmas dinner tonight)
>> >> > >>
>> >> > >>apologies for the brief downtime on the /edit view for the book
>> >> > >>
>> >> > >>adam
>> >> > >>
>> >> > >>On Sat, 2010-12-18 at 19:12 -0600, James Simmons wrote:
>> >> > >>> My book on E-books has gone through several title changes.  The latest
>> >> > >>> title is this:
>> >> > >>>
>> >> > >>> E-Book Enlightenment: Reading And Leading With One Laptop Per Child
>> >> > >>>
>> >> > >>> Unfortunately, my import into Booki picked up an older title and I
>> >> > >>> can't change it myself.  The older title is:
>> >> > >>>
>> >> > >>> An E-Book Revolution
>> >> > >>>
>> >> > >>> I decided against using this title because a young artist created some
>> >> > >>> wonderful cover art for it that just didn't go with the title.  It was
>> >> > >>> easier to change the title than the art.  Now, unfortunately, I cannot
>> >> > >>> change the title myself.
>> >> > >>>
>> >> > >>> After the title change, please re-publish it.  I have made many
>> >> > >>> changes that need to be shared with the world.
>> >> > >>>
>> >> > >>> James Simmons
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