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FYI: I've put together a free book format called Manuscripts. See http://manuscripts.github.io http://manuscripts.github.io and find an example bookshelf @ http

FYI: I've put together a free book format called Manuscripts. See http://manuscripts.github.io http://manuscripts.github.io and find an example bookshelf @ http://yukimotopress.github.io http://yukimotopress.github.io Happy book writing. Happy book reading.

japanoise 7y ago
This looks rather like an ebook written with pandoc[1]; if you don't mind, what prompted you to write your own rather than using an existing format? [1]: https://pandoc.org/epub.html https://pandoc.org/epub.html
- geraldbauer 7y ago
  The new format is (way) easier / simpler and yes, you can use pandoc for markdown processing. If you create an online book than you can just use HTML & CSS e.g. a "standard" website or a webpage is a book. You should ask why the book industry created a new format, that is, EPUB :-). PS: That's also the direction the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) tries to go (but failed). See the upcoming https://www.w3.org/TR/wpub/ https://www.w3.org/TR/wpub/ recommendation / standard / spec trying to replace EPUB. Compare the book manifest of manuscripts with the book manifest of wpub to see what format keeps it simple. PPS: And to keep apple and oranges apart - FYI: pandoc is NOT a book format (it's a text processor), thus, you should compare Manuscripts to EPUB or the new WPUB.
Shorel 7y ago
It is a nice format. But until my Kindles and Kobos can read it, I would never use it to consume content.
- geraldbauer 7y ago
  In theory (and practice) you can also (easily) create "classic" epubs or mobis from the Manuscript book source (it's just a meta datafile and structured text). One dream would be to have all Gutenberg books in Manuscripts - it's only a small step from "plain" text to structured text. I'd say way easier than to convert everything to HTML source as Standard Ebooks project is doing - https://standardebooks.org https://standardebooks.org - for example. Anyways, books in (structured) text (formats) will outlive all formats and will still work even without special ebook readers. It's a format like the alphabet (that is, it's forever). If you read it on paper or on a screen or as a codex (paged) or as scroll - it's all possible by design. Anyways, thanks for your kind words.
malodyets 7y ago
No main TOC nav?

japanoise 7y ago

This looks rather like an ebook written with pandoc[1]; if you don't mind, what prompted you to write your own rather than using an existing format? [1]: https://pandoc.org/epub.html https://pandoc.org/epub.html

geraldbauer 7y ago
The new format is (way) easier / simpler and yes, you can use pandoc for markdown processing. If you create an online book than you can just use HTML & CSS e.g. a "standard" website or a webpage is a book. You should ask why the book industry created a new format, that is, EPUB :-). PS: That's also the direction the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) tries to go (but failed). See the upcoming https://www.w3.org/TR/wpub/ https://www.w3.org/TR/wpub/ recommendation / standard / spec trying to replace EPUB. Compare the book manifest of manuscripts with the book manifest of wpub to see what format keeps it simple. PPS: And to keep apple and oranges apart - FYI: pandoc is NOT a book format (it's a text processor), thus, you should compare Manuscripts to EPUB or the new WPUB.

Shorel 7y ago

It is a nice format. But until my Kindles and Kobos can read it, I would never use it to consume content.

geraldbauer 7y ago
In theory (and practice) you can also (easily) create "classic" epubs or mobis from the Manuscript book source (it's just a meta datafile and structured text). One dream would be to have all Gutenberg books in Manuscripts - it's only a small step from "plain" text to structured text. I'd say way easier than to convert everything to HTML source as Standard Ebooks project is doing - https://standardebooks.org https://standardebooks.org - for example. Anyways, books in (structured) text (formats) will outlive all formats and will still work even without special ebook readers. It's a format like the alphabet (that is, it's forever). If you read it on paper or on a screen or as a codex (paged) or as scroll - it's all possible by design. Anyways, thanks for your kind words.

malodyets 7y ago

No main TOC nav?