[FM Discuss] feedback on the fm (booki) workflow

[James Simmons]

Adam,

I have been using my own Booki for a few months now.  I've been
writing a book with it, and I also documented what I had to go through
to get it set up in my FLOSS Manual "E-Book Enlightenment".

A few months ago on the Booki Blog there was a post suggesting that
Booki was going to be much easier to install.  I haven't heard
anything about that since, and I'm definitely interested.

You already know about my suggestions on making Kindle-Store ready
MOBI files by making improvements to the EPUBs that are currently
generated.  While we're at it you could find out the requirements for
EPUBs on the Nook.  I would assume that like the Kindle they would
want a cover image and a linked TOC.

I've been using Sigil to prepare a public domain book for the Kindle
Store.  One thing that Sigil does really nicely is make it easy to
split content into chapters.  That would be a good feature for Booki
to have, especially if you're correcting EPUBs automatically generated
by the Internet Archive.

On my local Booki I've had intermittent problems where you try and
edit a page and the edit buffer comes up empty.  You can resolve this
by clicking on the Cancel button, refreshing the contents page, and
selecting the chapter again.  The problem is that there is no
indication that you should do this.  The software should show a
message box when there is a problem connecting to the database, rather
than just failing silently as it does now.

James Simmons


On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 5:30 AM, adam <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
> hi,
>
> So. Aspiration are doing a review in the Booki workflow. One of the main
> implementations for booki is http://booki.flossmanuals.net. But it is also
> used for the Fi FLOSS Manuals and the http://translate-new.flossmanuals.net
> (new beta translation zone).
>
> As part of this we need feedback from the 'power users'. That is *you*. The
> FM community is the most experienced Booki group in the world!
>
> So, can we have a discussion about what you think is and isnt good about the
> current Booki as you experience it on booki.flossmanuals.net
>
> I am *particularly* keen to hear from those that have set up their own Booki
> - Ed and James but I think there are also others. However *all* feedback is
> useful. The feedback could be in the form of 'i dont understand how to...'
> or 'the edit interface is good because...' or more comprehensive
> interpretations of the software.
>
> Any and all feedback and discussion points are very welcome...
>
> anyone want to kick in with some starters?
>
> adam
>
>
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