Bowerbird, I was not an expert on making e-books when I wrote this. I learned as I went. So things like NOT rewrapping paragraphs and removing hyphens during the proofing process, while they seem obvious to me now, were not when I wrote the book. Actually, prior to the books I did using archive.org's OCR I did not re-wrap text during the page-at-a-time proofing, but I did remove hyphens. I think DP wants you to do it that way. When I started using OCR from archive.org I started formatting as I went, or even as the first step in the process. I probably wasted time doing that but the two books I did that way were much shorter. The book was intended as a manual for One Laptop Per Child, but it does not have quite the following that my other OLPC book has. My co-authors were from the Rural Design Collective, which does an internship program in web design for promising students. One of these students did the original art in the book. Very little writing was done by them. Booki is software created by the FLOSS Manuals project. I really say all I have to say about it in the book. The idea is to create printed manuals from Lulu.com, but it also makes EPUBs (which I need to modify in Sigil to get them up to Kindle standards: adding TOC, cover image, etc.) My target audience was deployments who wanted to use XO laptops for reading and didn't know where to begin or what was possible, I learned a lot writing the book but I don't pass myself off as an expert. James Simmons On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 12:22 PM, <Bowerbird@aol.com> wrote:
ok, finally!
after way too many hours of work, james, your text is now back with its original pagebreaks and linebreaks, but retaining the edits that you had made to it. whew. all that, just to undo what never should've happened...
i learned a lot of little things along the way, so i don't regret having made the decision to go down that path.
but the biggest lesson i learned is that it's just one big waste of time and energy to have to undo such a thing -- which is a lesson i had supposedly learned before -- so we can be sure i've gone down that path the last time.
anyway, james... i'll turn the text back to you very soon.
but this morning, i wanted to give myself a little reward, after all of that hard work, so i took a look at your book.
wow... that is quite a book you wrote there, james, 247 pages, chock full of graphics, on the topic of...
...making e-books!
and... as far as i can tell, you covered the subject well, based on the quick cursory look i gave it this morning.
so now i'm puzzled.
if you're "the person who wrote the book on the topic", then what am i doing, explaining to you how to do it?
can you "enlighten" me, james? (bet you got that a lot.)
and what can you tell me about your co-authors?
and the booki system which you used?
clear me up, james. i don't like being puzzled...
-bowerbird
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