[FM Discuss] Future of Booki

[adam]

On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 11:10 -0500, James Simmons wrote:
> 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?
> 

they need booki publisher...the rebuild of fm we have been making. its
also free software and will be available shortly...i am working on the
localisation stuff

adam
 


> James Simmons
> 
> 
> > Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 07:20:13 +1200
> > From: John Curwood <marketing at lovinglearning.co.nz>
> > To: discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net
> > Subject: Re: [FM Discuss] Future of Booki
> > Message-ID: <1277320813.1852.22.camel at curwood-laptop>
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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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