[FM Discuss] Future of Booki

[John Curwood]

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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