[FM Discuss] How to update EPUBs in Internet Archive?

[Adam Hyde]

The epub round trip *does* work, it just doesn't replace the old (bad) spun but adds a new item to archive.org. 

Okay. So, if you are into this then that is *very* cool. Lets continue this chat next week and get the ball rolling.  Adam 

"James Simmons" <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:

>I was under the impression that you had already given demos of Booki
>doing just this: downloading an EPUB from IA into Booki, correcting
>it, and replacing it.
>
>If there was a way to do this without the automation I'd be
>interested.  Booki creates a really nice EPUB from FLOSS Manuals and
>it would be a shame if all IA can give people is their own generated
>EPUB.
>
>If there is an opportunity for me to help make this happen I'll do it.
> I describe this process in my E-Book book as something that already
>works, so I guess I should change that.  Also, we have the issue that
>an imported EPUB from IA cannot be used to generate an EPUB from
>Booki, probably an issue with the import.
>
>James Simmons
>
>
>On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 5:20 AM, adam <adam at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> so. the thing is james you are talking about the future :)
>>
>> We have a bit of a problem here at the booki dev team. its a question
>of
>> capacity. the scenario you suggest is _exactly_ what the Internet
>> Archive wants to do with booki. We have discussed this with them at
>> length and they want to build booki into their system so that people
>can
>> correct epubs just as you have done.
>>
>> This is an enormous opportunity for booki but we have so far failed
>to
>> realise it because, simply, we dont have the people power. It is
>> _extremely_ frustrating.
>>
>> What we need to do is get a few heads together and solve this and
>solve
>> it fast. We have all the code in place what I think we need to do is
>> this:
>> * find a good server to host an archive instance of booki
>> * work out some basic code to automate the import
>> * install
>> * run test projects
>>
>> if you would like to be a part of this greater picture i would *love*
>to
>> work with someone to get this cracking...
>>
>> adam
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 14:51 -0600, James Simmons wrote:
>>> When I submitted "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" to the Internet
>>> Archive it created books in multiple forms, including an EPUB.
>>> However, the way it makes an EPUB is defective in this case.  It
>>> assumes that you will give it a PDF composed of page images, which
>it
>>> then does OCR on to create the EPUB.  Doing OCR on a file that
>already
>>> contains text is not going to give good results, and the resulting
>>> EPUB is useless.  However, Booki can create a really good EPUB.  I
>>> know I could donate that EPUB to the Internet Archive, but what I
>>> really want to do is REPLACE the lousy generated EPUB with my good
>>> one.  I know that Booki was created in part to do this very thing,
>but
>>> I can't figure out how to make it happen.  The Internet Archive page
>>> does not let you delete the existing EPUB, and when you upload a new
>>> one it does not seem to replace the existing one.
>>>
>>> I'll ask over at IA but I figured that whoever developed the
>function
>>> in Booki would know the answer.
>>>
>>> James Simmons
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