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I’m not too concerned with the redistribution issue at the moment, I think i’ll be able to handle it if there are any problems, the books should only be free for distribution. I will probably have an admin group who will have permissions to add ‘official’ files to the site, but people with a login account can add ‘work in progress files’ to a forum or some other db.
At this stage it is still only an idea and second or third project in line so I’m just planning.
Actually one of the main reasons I want to set up the site is because of the category issue.
What I want to do is somehow use the metadata to for the categories. I want to have the books with complete metadata (The epub3 spec seems to be trying to address most of the deficiencies in the metadata) and make a browsable and searchable library based on this.
I need to figure out a way to extract the metadata from the epub file and put it into a sql db and then make a nice way to display it. (Now that I write it down it seems to be a bit of a calibre reinvention.)
I’m thinking that it will probably be easiest to work with epub version and then create other formats from these. Epub is now fairly easy to edit for most people.
Are the results of epubcheck trustworthy? From reading other threads I get the impression that it seems to be not so reliable, or have they done something to improve it?
@jbcohen thank you for spending the time to write that. I hadn’t thought about the mirror sites at all. Perhaps later if you don’t mind I might ask you for some more specific advice.
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