[IIAB] [KIWIX][INTERNET-IN-A-BOX] Nice project!

[Braddock]

Emmanuel,

You mentioned monacle as a Javascript e-book reader.  I took a look at 
it, and it looked pretty good.  Have you used it?

One thing I couldn't figure out is if an epub format e-book (using the 
extension someone made) had to be loaded from the local filesystem.  I 
guess it might be a bit heavyweight to toss epub books around.

-braddock

On 03/28/2013 05:29 AM, Emmanuel Engelhart wrote:
> Hi Joel
>
> On 03/28/2013 10:48 AM, Joel Steres wrote:
>> Thanks for your interest in the project.
>
> It seems we have pretty similar goals with Kiwix, we also focus pretty 
> much energy to put Kiwix and contents on low-tech/end devices. I'm 
> really happy if we can mutualize some efforts!
>
>>> In any case (and sorry if I repeat myself), if you have a workable 
>>> set of
>>> HTML pages perfectly usable offline, then it won't be a problem to 
>>> create
>>> the corresponding ZIM file.
>>
>> As it stands now the Gutenberg portion is functional, though still
>> being refined, and can be served locally.   However, the webpages are
>> composed dynamically using templates with flask.  All of the metadata
>> about the books is stored in a sqlite database which flask uses to
>> populate the templates.  I'm not sure but it sounds like you are
>> looking for a collection of rendered HTML pages. That could be
>> obtained by crawling the site.  Before doing that we might want to
>> finalize the presentation.
>>
>> If there is something I can help with let me know.
>
> Although this is not exactly what I need to be able create the ZIM 
> file (pages are generated dynamically), this is a big step forward. 
> You already perfectly see what still need to be done :)
>
> I see two solutions:
> * straight forward using something like httrack
> * clean way with a flask script/plugin/module going through all pages.
>
> For a first version... httrack is certainly good enough IMO. One time 
> you have finished to beautifying the presentation pages, would that be 
> possible to let httrack crawling the site and create a TGZ I could 
> download?
>
> Kind regards
> Emmanuel