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Sorry to deprive you of the challenge Greg, but I've made epub versions (automatically) of issues 1 through 12. Right after epub was first mentioned, I starting considering how I'd go about converting the site to an epub package. Of course the holidays intervened, but given it's Jan 2, I put some spare time towards it et voila! Download a first draft of the journal in epub here: https://github.com/LouisStAmour/journal2epub/downloads Site maintainers may be interested in the error logs. Look for lines saying "referenced resource missing in package". Sometimes it's my fault (e.g. an absolute image reference I missed in 3.epub) and sometimes it's a typo (e.g. a link to drupal.org that actually points to <a href= in an issue 12 reference). Before posting these epub files live on the site, we should run through the logs to fix things, perhaps hand-tweak and recompile the HTML as epub, make sure images are sized correctly on non-iBooks readers (e.g. my Sony Reader), perhaps add cover art, copyright & table of contents with abstracts. Source code is mostly one file (it hasn't been refactored), under MIT license (from Expat): https://github.com/LouisStAmour/journal2epub/blob/master/journal2epub.rb Louis St-Amour York University Digital Media BA student & Osgoode Hall Law School student webmonkey http://www.lsta.me/ or on Twitter, @4Lou On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 12:42 AM, Greg Williams < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > Karen's right, EPUB content is basically XHTML/CSS/graphics, so converting > from web->EPUB shouldn't be that difficult. > > The hardest part would be properly constructing the required > manifest/metadata XML files. After you do all that, creating an EPUB > archive > is basically a matter of packaging all the files into a ZIP archive and > changing > the file extension. > > If you already have the HTML/CSS/images, a tool like Calibre ( > http://calibre- > ebook.com/) should do a basic conversion. If you wanted to do a bit more > customization, something like Sigil (http://code.google.com/p/sigil/) > could > also help simplify the task of gathering/organizing content, automatically > creating required metadata/manifests, etc... I'm sure there are many other > tools out there, those are just the two I've been playing with recently > while > preparing for an upcoming presentation on EPUB. > > I, for one, would welcome an EPUB version of the Code4Lib journal; I read > Pragmatic Bookshelf (http://www.pragprog.com/magazines) and Hacker > Monthly (http://hackermonthly.com/) every month in EPUB format (on an > iPad), and really find the experience much more enjoyable/engaging than > reading the same content in a browser on my desktop/laptop. > > Time permitting, I might be persuaded to put together a sample EPUB issue > of > the journal, if there was any interest... > > -Greg Williams > West Linn Public Library > [log in to unmask] > > > > On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 07:41:34 -0800, Karen Coyle <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > >Epub is essentially HTML at its root, which should make this easier. I > >think that the Internet Archive may have done this -- they are > >exporting books in ePub format. I'll forward this question to some > >folks there (rather than putting their emails in a public list). > > > >kc >