[FM Discuss] Subject: Re: more feedback please :)

[John Curwood]

Hey Adam,

As an editor, I have found Booki to be very good, it is flexible  
enough with plenty of tools for enhancing a books content, yet simple  
enough that the tools don't get in the way of generating then  
content.  When it comes to wish-lists, I think most of the things I  
would like are to do with managing the book, and I think most of them  
have been mentioned earlier.

- The ability to create a front/spine/back cover for a printed book  
inside Booki. - I think it is great to be able to have all the tools  
for publishing a book in one place, instead of requiring extra  
applications such as inkscape for creating covers. It doesn't mean  
that you can't use application of course, especially if you were to  
make a complex cover. My general experience is that the average  
(sorry couldn't think of a better word) person, likes to have all  
their tools etc in one place without the need to go backwards and  
forwards between different software.  To this end, I've seen people  
try to make spreadsheets behave like word processors and vice-versa,  
so that they wouldn't need to jump between the two applications.

- The ability to have books in multiple groups - there are a number  
of manuals that can easily sit in more than one group. While adding  
tags to a book may help with this, i don't think they are a  
replacement for groups as I think groups are were you build the  
communities that create the books, while tags would be used by the  
reader searching for specific content. So I think they both have a  
place.

- the ability for anyone to add a book to a group - the original  
creator of a book could lose interest or get pre-occupied with other  
things in life, while other people take over working on the book, if  
they cannot get in contact with the creator, they aren't able add the  
book to a group.

- with cloned/copied/forked manuals or chapters it would be good to  
have the option to merge changes from the clone back to the origin if  
the changes were applicable and visa-versa.

- for publishing for those who aren't tech savvy, have several css  
presets to choose from for publishing (with previews). And maybe if  
you have created a css that you think is pretty cool, then be easily  
able to add it to the library of css presets.

When I was spending more time writing, I had a whole bunch of ideas,  
these are the ones that have remained in brain so they must be the  
most important ones.

Cheers,

John