The content of Post #1 now seems relatively stable and problem-free, though it will still need revisions for changes in calibre or in my workflow. Please let me know if you find any problems I missed, so I can fix them. Meanwhile I've been thinking about the future direction of this project.
1. Searching the forums works best for small posts, when each post is limited to one specific topic. This large document has lots of topics, so it pops up often when using forum-search for keywords, which may annoy people searching for solutions to specific problems. That brings up the post but doesn't show where keywords are in the document unless the spoilers are expanded to allow looking for the highlighted keywords. Alternatively, if all spoilers are expanded first, a browser search of the document for keywords works well. Without expanding spoilers first, a browser search for keywords when viewing the page source also works but shows any keyword hits from HTML tags. All the search methods are awkward for one reason or another.
2. If I transform this project into a website:
- + People could link to it from a post or sticky here, avoiding the search problem here.
- + Site would have internal search feature.
- + HTML and CSS would be more flexible than BBcode for formatting.
- + After each revision of content, it could be transformed into an ebook with significantly less work than from the BBcode-formatted document here.
- - Implementation would require learning more HTML and CSS along with the initial work of setting up the site. Good for me in the long run for eventual use with ebooks, but still time-consuming.
3. I'm not sure how useful this project is to other people. The content is different from and broader than the usual calibre forum content of "how do I do this new-feature-to-me?" or "how do I solve this small specific problem?" Last year, as a new user I looked for content like this, overall maps of how other people used calibre, including strategy and workflow along with examples. Couldn't find anything as broad as I wanted, just disorganized bits and pieces throughout these forums. So started the KISS thread, and that eventually grew into this document. I still wonder if others find it useful, if there's a common need for this kind of content.
What do you think? Feedback will help me decide what to do. Please comment, either by private message or in this thread.