Book Kit - Building better ebooks

alfatreze · 06-23-2015, 10:23 AM

Hi,

I'm starting a framework for building books based on a sass build system.

The project aims to help the development taking advantage of the most recent web technologies (css preprocessors, build tools, etc.) while applying effective and beautiful design principles for typography rythm and scale.
The general idea is to provide a framework akin to bootstrap or foundation with a very narrow focus on ebook creation.

Some of the work is inspired and based on:

Typeplate - “typographic starter kit”
A List Apart - More Meaningful Typography
Modularscale
Modularscale SASS - Github
Among others...

Once the framework achieves a beta milestone, I'd like to integrate it with the calibre editor, this would allow to build much more robust books as well as convert existing ones. Since sass is based on variables it would make changing and editing books, or applying formatting templates a lot simpler.

For now the project is merely in the early stages of building, testing and all-round scavenging for any piece of technology that furthers the goal along.

I welcome anyone that wants to embark on this journey. I would welcome help both on developing the html and sass, ideas and existing projects that further the project vision, epub standards, building and testing epubs or providing any welcome insights into the going project going.

Contribution
The project will be located on Github - Book Kit on Github - no files for now
You can contact me either here or by email at alfatreze@gmail

theducks · 06-23-2015, 10:27 AM

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Moving out of Calibre.Editor.

View Poll Results: How much would like to see this framework developed?
Awesome Idea - why hasn't anyone built one yet?	1	16.67%
Not really sure what it's about!	4	66.67%
Meh - got better things to build ebooks...	1	16.67%
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06-23-2015, 10:23 AM	#1
alfatreze Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2009 Device: PRS-505	Book Kit - Building better ebooks Hi, I'm starting a framework for building books based on a sass build system. The project aims to help the development taking advantage of the most recent web technologies (css preprocessors, build tools, etc.) while applying effective and beautiful design principles for typography rythm and scale. The general idea is to provide a framework akin to bootstrap or foundation with a very narrow focus on ebook creation. Some of the work is inspired and based on: Typeplate - “typographic starter kit” A List Apart - More Meaningful Typography Modularscale Modularscale SASS - Github Among others... Once the framework achieves a beta milestone, I'd like to integrate it with the calibre editor, this would allow to build much more robust books as well as convert existing ones. Since sass is based on variables it would make changing and editing books, or applying formatting templates a lot simpler. For now the project is merely in the early stages of building, testing and all-round scavenging for any piece of technology that furthers the goal along. I welcome anyone that wants to embark on this journey. I would welcome help both on developing the html and sass, ideas and existing projects that further the project vision, epub standards, building and testing epubs or providing any welcome insights into the going project going. Contribution The project will be located on Github - Book Kit on Github - no files for now You can contact me either here or by email at alfatreze@gmail

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06-23-2015, 10:27 AM	#2
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 31,037 Karma: 60358908 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	Moderator Notice Moving out of Calibre.Editor.

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