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| author | Nick White <git@njw.me.uk> | 2013-01-22 08:32:25 +0000 |
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| committer | Nick White <git@njw.me.uk> | 2013-01-22 08:32:25 +0000 |
| commit | 9d0c8397b7ddd9087828c830cdb3a08ca792c770 (patch) | |
| tree | 7da8e309024fc854355d29a293fcc67d29c5102c | |
| parent | 508b7b1123ea479caed7af68ffd9f90ffcc37281 (diff) | |
Rewrite readme a bit and change web location to /getxbook
| -rw-r--r-- | Makefile | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 24 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | TODO | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doap.ttl | 28 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | websummary.sh | 2 |
5 files changed, 29 insertions, 30 deletions
@@ -107,7 +107,8 @@ dist-win: $(BIN) $(GUI:.tcl=.exe) index.html: doap.ttl README echo making webpage - echo "<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title>$(NAME)</title>" > $@ + echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>' > $@ + echo "<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title>$(NAME)</title>" >> $@ echo '<link rel="alternate" type="text/turtle" title="rdf" href="doap.ttl" />' >> $@ echo '<style type="text/css">' >> $@ echo "body {font-family:sans-serif; width:38em; margin:auto; max-width:94%;}" >> $@ @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ # getxbook getxbook is a collection of tools to download books from Google -Books' "Book Preview," Amazon's "Look Inside the Book" and Barnes -& Noble's "Book Viewer." +Books' "Book Preview" (getgbook), Amazon's "Look Inside the +Book" (getabook) and Barnes & Noble's "Book Viewer" (getbnbook). ## why @@ -33,18 +33,6 @@ You can easily use OCR software to get text versions of downloaded books, making them accessible to people who can't easily read from the page scans. -"I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every -form of tyranny over the mind of man." - - *Thomas Jefferson* - -### further reading - -* Cohn, C & Hashimoto, K [The Case for Book Privacy Parity: Google Books and the Shift from Offline to Online Reading](http://hlpronline.com/2010/05/the-case-for-book-privacy-parity-google-books-and-the-shift-from-offline-to-online-reading/) Harvard Law & Policy Review (2010) -* Richards, N M [The Perils of Social Reading](http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2031307) Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 101, No. 3 (2013) -* Fuchs, C [A Contribution to the Critique of the Political Economy of Google](http://www.uta.edu/huma/agger/fastcapitalism/8_1/fuchs8_1.html) Fast Capitalism 8.1 (2011) -* Jeanneney, J [Google and the Myth of Universal Knowledge](http://yanko.lib.ru/books/internet/google_and_the_myth_of_universal_knowledge-en-l.pdf) University of Chicago Press (2007) -* Schneier, B [The Eternal Value of Privacy](http://www.schneier.com/essay-114.html) Wired News (2006) - ## technical Each tool is written in around 200 lines of portable C code, with no @@ -53,3 +41,11 @@ Linux, BSDs, OSX and Windows. There is an optional graphical interface, built with Tcl/Tk. There are some simple scripts to create searchable PDF, DjVu, or plain text files from the downloaded pages, which use tesseract OCR software. + +## further reading + +* [The Case for Book Privacy Parity: Google Books and the Shift from Offline to Online Reading](http://hlpronline.com/2010/05/the-case-for-book-privacy-parity-google-books-and-the-shift-from-offline-to-online-reading/) by Cindy Cohn & Kathryn Hashimoto +* [The Perils of Social Reading](http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2031307) by Neil M. Richards +* [A Contribution to the Critique of the Political Economy of Google](http://www.uta.edu/huma/agger/fastcapitalism/8_1/fuchs8_1.html) by Christian Fuchs +* [Google and the Myth of Universal Knowledge](http://yanko.lib.ru/books/internet/google_and_the_myth_of_universal_knowledge-en-l.pdf) by Jean-Noël Jeanneney +* [The Eternal Value of Privacy](http://www.schneier.com/essay-114.html) by Bruce Schneier @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ +looks like b&n changed their reader again. http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-overlord-rising-ew-scott/1108151174?ean=9781612960791&itm=1& - doesn't work in chromium or surf (or thinks it won't) - firefox should work. branded 'nook for web' +writeup; also about safety release 1.1 create debian package & post to mentors list check whether windows build will still run the tools successfully if run from a shortcut elsewhere @@ -1,13 +1,13 @@ @prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#>. @prefix doap: <http://usefulinc.com/ns/doap#>. @prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/>. -@prefix : <http://njw.me.uk/software/getxbook/#>. +@prefix : <http://njw.me.uk/getxbook/#>. :p a doap:Project; doap:name "getxbook"; doap:shortdesc "A collection of tools to download books from websites"; doap:description "getxbook is a collection of tools to download books from Websites. There are tools to download from Google Books' book preview, Amazon's look inside the book, and Barnes and Noble's book viewer. There is an optional GUI written in Tcl/Tk, and some shell scripts using OCR to create plain text or searchable PDFs and DjVus from the downloaded books."; - doap:homepage <http://njw.me.uk/software/getxbook/>; + doap:homepage <http://njw.me.uk/getxbook>; doap:repository :repo; doap:programming-language "C"; doap:license <http://www.isc.org/software/license>; @@ -24,55 +24,55 @@ :v01 a doap:Version; doap:revision "0.1"; doap:created "2011-03-27"; - doap:file-release <http://njw.me.uk/software/getgbook/getgbook-0.1.tar.bz2>. + doap:file-release <http://njw.me.uk/getgbook/getgbook-0.1.tar.bz2>. :v02 a doap:Version; doap:revision "0.2"; doap:created "2011-04-11"; - doap:file-release <http://njw.me.uk/software/getgbook/getgbook-0.2.tar.bz2>. + doap:file-release <http://njw.me.uk/getgbook/getgbook-0.2.tar.bz2>. :v03 a doap:Version; doap:revision "0.3"; doap:created "2011-08-07"; - doap:file-release <http://njw.me.uk/software/getxbook/getxbook-0.3.tar.bz2>. + doap:file-release <http://njw.me.uk/getxbook/getxbook-0.3.tar.bz2>. :v04 a doap:Version; doap:revision "0.4"; doap:created "2011-09-08"; - doap:file-release <http://njw.me.uk/software/getxbook/getxbook-0.4.tar.bz2>. + doap:file-release <http://njw.me.uk/getxbook/getxbook-0.4.tar.bz2>. :v05 a doap:Version; doap:revision "0.5"; doap:created "2011-09-29"; - doap:file-release <http://njw.me.uk/software/getxbook/getxbook-0.5.tar.bz2>. + doap:file-release <http://njw.me.uk/getxbook/getxbook-0.5.tar.bz2>. :v06 a doap:Version; doap:revision "0.6"; doap:created "2011-11-19"; - doap:file-release <http://njw.me.uk/software/getxbook/getxbook-0.6.tar.bz2>. + doap:file-release <http://njw.me.uk/getxbook/getxbook-0.6.tar.bz2>. :v061 a doap:Version; doap:revision "0.6.1"; doap:created "2011-11-22"; - doap:file-release <http://njw.me.uk/software/getxbook/getxbook-0.6.1.tar.bz2>, - <http://njw.me.uk/software/getxbook/getxbook-0.6.1-win.zip>. + doap:file-release <http://njw.me.uk/getxbook/getxbook-0.6.1.tar.bz2>, + <http://njw.me.uk/getxbook/getxbook-0.6.1-win.zip>. :v07 a doap:Version; doap:revision "0.7"; doap:created "2012-02-12"; - doap:file-release <http://njw.me.uk/software/getxbook/getxbook-0.7.tar.bz2>. + doap:file-release <http://njw.me.uk/getxbook/getxbook-0.7.tar.bz2>. :v08 a doap:Version; doap:revision "0.8"; doap:created "2012-02-14"; - doap:file-release <http://njw.me.uk/software/getxbook/getxbook-0.8.tar.bz2>. + doap:file-release <http://njw.me.uk/getxbook/getxbook-0.8.tar.bz2>. :v09 a doap:Version; doap:revision "0.9"; doap:created "2012-04-27"; - doap:file-release <http://njw.me.uk/software/getxbook/getxbook-0.9.tar.bz2>. + doap:file-release <http://njw.me.uk/getxbook/getxbook-0.9.tar.bz2>. :v10 a doap:Version; doap:revision "1.0"; doap:created "2012-18-19"; - doap:file-release <http://njw.me.uk/software/getxbook/getxbook-1.0.tar.bz2>. + doap:file-release <http://njw.me.uk/getxbook/getxbook-1.0.tar.bz2>. diff --git a/websummary.sh b/websummary.sh index 1b9e22f..0db3177 100644 --- a/websummary.sh +++ b/websummary.sh @@ -44,6 +44,6 @@ roqet -q -r csv -e "$q" -D /dev/stdin < $rdf | sed '1d' \ - Maintainer: [$maint]($mainthome) - Language: $lang - License: [$license]($licenseuri) -- DOAP: [${home}doap.ttl](${home}doap.ttl) +- DOAP RDF: [${home}/doap.ttl](${home}/doap.ttl) _EOF_ done |