[FM Discuss] Future of Booki

[James Simmons]

John,

I tried out Booki by importing a book from the Internet Archive which
I donated myself, "The Big Aviation Book For Boys".  I'm incredibly
impressed.

I understand that people can install Booki on their own, and that
option will most definitely have a place in my book.  What I'm curious
about is whether a site like FLOSS Manuals but for books of all kinds
is in the works.  If some teachers wanted to collaborate on an Algebra
textbook would they need to set up their own site?

James Simmons


> Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 07:20:13 +1200
> From: John Curwood <marketing at lovinglearning.co.nz>
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> Hi James,
>
> There is an installation of Booki, that is up and running at the moment:
> http://www.booki.cc/.  Feel free to browse around create an account and
> have a play. There is also a user guide currently in development which
> can be found at http://www.booki.cc/booki-user-guide/ the introduction
> section has an outline of a number of different use cases, the importing
> chapter covers importing books from various sources such as archive.org
> and the publishing chapter briefly goes over the options for sending a
> copy of your work back to archive.org.
>
> I hope you enjoy, booki has a really nice and easy user interface.
>
> cheers,
>
> John
>
> On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 14:12 -0500, James Simmons wrote:
>> As you know, I am writing a FLOSS Manual on e-books: finding them,
>> reading them, creating them, and publishing them, where publishing
>> includes options like Project Gutenberg, the Internet Archive, and
>> hosting the files yourself, possibly with a Book Server-like setup.
>> (Some people in Sugar Labs are working on that).
>>
>> It seems to me that Booki fits in there somewhere.  I have seen a
>> couple of things that make me think so:
>>
>> 1).  I read on the Internet Archive website that there was a
>> demonstration of Booki where someone downloaded an EPUB from the
>> archive, made corrections to it, and then uploaded it back to the
>> archive.
>>
>> 2).  I read on this very list that there would someday be a general
>> Booki site where people could sign up and create any kind of book they
>> wanted to, not just manuals for free software.
>>
>> As a result of this, I'm thinking that there needs to be a chapter on
>> Booki in my manual.  It would not be how to use Booki, but more what
>> it can be used for.
>>
>> It looks like we're all going to be learning more about Booki very
>> soon, and I hope that among the things we learn will be some
>> indication of where the project is going and roughly when.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> James Simmons
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