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@clemsos you deleted all the images with dc74ac4 ... the chaper tocs had them, and the collective-memory free bassel chapter consisted of only an image. Was this intentional?

To get an EPUB accepted at most online retailers, it has to pass a validation step. You can test an EPUB locally using epubcheck.

Unfortunately gitbook does not always generate error-free EPUB files, mostly due to the markdown parser not writing valid XHTML in some edge cases (e.g., footnotes, heading id's).

Assuming you've installed gitbook-cli, and cloned this book in your home directory, and downloaded epubcheck:

cd costoffreedom-book
gitbook epub . ~/costoffreedom.epub

cd ~/epubcheck-4.0.1
java -jar epubcheck.jar -out ~/epubcheck.xml ~/costoffreedom.epub

Here's the output:

costoffreedom-epubcheck.xml.txt

https://github.com/costoffreedom/costoffreedom-book/blob/master/images/ml-free-bassel-900-1.jpg
We need hi-res image to print maybe. Do we have it ?

Maybe we could port the work Julien did on the first version of the book
: https://github.com/costoffreedom/oldies/tree/master/original-book

To release on Lulu, we have to fit some standard size (not the case now, based on the Booksprint released version) Which size ?

Those with the green star are eligible for retail disctribution : http://connect.lulu.com/t5/ISBN-Distribution/Which-Products-are-Eligible-for-Retail-Distribution/ta-p/33150

Do we need it to be eligible for retail distribution ? (see costoffredom/costoffredom.cc#48) http://www.lulu.com/sell ?

The rendered pdf https://www.gitbook.com/download/pdf/book/costoffreedom/costoffreedom-book has two behaviors I'd like to get rid of:

• In the table of contents, displays (filename.html) next to each entry. I guess this could be useful for debugging purposes but doesn't help readers.
• Chapter titles are shown twice, probably once as specified in chapter markdown title, once as specified in SUMMARY.md

Both of these behaviors are probably specified in pdf.css -- if I rename it, they both go away. But I can't figure out what in pdf.css specifies those behaviors. pdf.css seems to be very complicated, I suspect ought be blanked except for some minimum styles we explicitly want. @clemsos it looks like you created the pdf.css. I'm probably missing some obvious things. Thoughts?

looks like a requirement for Lulu and will officially make it a book :)

@christopheradams any idea of how to do it ?

Contributors are listed with bios

• bottom of each chapter
• at end in contributor list
• gratuitously again, one page for each contributor

At least the 3rd ought go.

I suggest the bio could appear just once, either in the first or second, probably second. Name(s) only for chapters.

Following #6 and the few options offered by gitbook regarding styling, it is way better to use Latex to generate a clean version for print.

This can be done already by using the make pdf command. It will first convert .md files to .tex following the order, then use the .cls Latex class and main file .tex in /tex folder to compile.

latexmk and pandoc are required

Report from a friend:

One operational note: there is something funky with Gitbook. Your rant loads just fine, but if I move the mouse around, all the text disappears. This is repeatable with latest Safari on the lasted Mac OS X.

improved red? or black with white painting or new cover al together? new one should stand out from the released version

Anything to add / modify on this cover ?
18767186_cover.pdf

Basically need to

• build pdf
• bump a version number
• upload to different locations

Currently the pdf is located in costoffreedom/costoffreedom.cc and costoffreedom/costoffreedom-book

https://www.gitbook.com/book/costoffreedom/costoffreedom-book/details (ToC) claims two, the first to a 404 link. Presumably one should be removed. I don't immediately see how to do it.

Should redirect to gibook.com/costoffreedom/costoffreedom-book