[FM Discuss] viva la booki revolution

[Tomi Toivio]

We have been running a very old version of Booki on fi.flossmanuals.net for
approximately a year now and my experience is that the book editing system
has worked fine even with an obsolete version of the system. And this is
the most important thing.

The problem was that it is such an old version that it doesn't have the
microblogging messaging system yet, which means it has been a very unsocial
platform for collaborative book editing... :)


2012/2/14 James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com>

> Adam,
>
> Best wishes for Booktype.  We sure need something like that--something
> we can use to make e-books and print-on-demand books with
> collaboration.  My current Booki install is good up to a point, and I
> did use it for an e-book and a CreateSpace book.  The problem was that
> Booki's epub lacked a table of contents page, so I had to use Sigil
> and the Seamonkey web page editor plus a Zip utility to fix that.  My
> Create Space PDF needed to have photographs 300 DPI or better, so I
> ended up copying and pasting my chapters into the 6x9" template Create
> Space provides for Word.  I used Open Office instead, and the result
> was that I lost all my italics and bolds on paste.  (I did a Paste
> Special using the HTML option which *should* have preserved them but
> didn't).  So I had to fix this by hand and I know I missed a lot.
> Then I ran spell check in Open Office and found a LOT of dumb errors
> that many, many readings had missed.  So I had to fix my e-book in
> Sigil by hand and re-upload that.
>
> I'm getting a second proof copy from CreateSpace on Thursday and
> already I know I need to fix a bunch more italics and bolds I missed
> the first time.  That's an Open Office bug, not a Booki bug (MS Word
> does the paste correctly) but if Booki had been a little better I
> would not have had to deal with OO.
>
> On top of that Booki was pretty difficult to install.  Plus way too
> frequently you get an empty editing window when you go to edit a
> chapter, not just in Firefox but in Chrome too, although not as often.
>
> I still believe in the potential of this software though.  One day it
> will do everything a book publishing system needs to do, and it will
> Just Work.
>
> James Simmons
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 8:10 AM, adam <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > as you know FM has been involved in building a Open Source collaborative
> > book production platform for the last 2 years. We recently formed an
> > alliance with Sourcefabric (Berlin based Open Source company) to develop
> it
> > further.
> >
> > So today is the day Booki has been renamed and had a lot of work on it.
> Its
> > now called Booktype and the demo is now here:
> > http://booktype-demo.sourcefabric.org/
> >
> > The site is here:
> > http://www.booktype.org
> >
> > Its pretty much the same thing but stronger, faster, better, more
> >
> > We will upgrade fm and booki.cc with the new sources soon. In the
> meantime
> > there is a new manual on FM for Booktype although it needs some love. if
> > anyone would like to jump in please do! The manual needs to be improved a
> > lot and all help welcome
> >
> > http://booki.flossmanuals.net/booktype/_edit/
> >
> >
> >
> > adam
> > --
> >
> > --
> > Adam Hyde
> > Founder, FLOSS Manuals
> > Project Manager, Booki
> > Book Sprint Facilitator
> > mobile :+ 49 177 4935122
> > identi.ca : @eset
> > booki.flossmanuals.net : @adam
> >
> > http://www.flossmanuals.net
> > http://www.booki.cc
> > http://www.booksprints.net
> >
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Best Regards
Tomi Toivio
Open Source Coordinator
http://fi.flossmanuals.net/
tomi at flossmanuals.net
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