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-rw-r--r--Makefile3
-rw-r--r--README24
-rw-r--r--TODO2
-rw-r--r--doap.ttl28
-rw-r--r--websummary.sh2
5 files changed, 29 insertions, 30 deletions
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index b123b11..9af30aa 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -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%;}" >> $@
diff --git a/README b/README
index 9acd811..54d48ca 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -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
diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 2eb2e66..03a9a5f 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -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
diff --git a/doap.ttl b/doap.ttl
index f1a825b..e8f7379 100644
--- a/doap.ttl
+++ b/doap.ttl
@@ -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