epub / ebook

[Dru Lavigne]

On Sun, 2/8/15, Cody Chamberlain <cody.chamberlain at me.com> wrote:
 
> i was just searching around seeing if
> there was a version of the freebsd handbook available as an
> e-book. i see amazon has an option from the FreeBSD
> Documentation Foundation.. is that actively maintained? is
> there an ePub / kindlegen version already crreated that just
> needs to be maintained?
>
> i was going to take the handbook page and start getting an
> ePub created but didn’t want to reinvent the wheel if its
> already spinning. 

Hello Cody,

Sorry for the late reply.

It looks like someone uploaded an older version of the Handbook to Amazon. That version has since been removed and we have asked the uploader to improve the quality of the Kindle version and use their own name, rather than the FreeBSD Documentation Project, if they upload it again so as not to confuse readers.

Currently, we're not generating an epub or a Kindle version of the Handbook. We spent a lot of time last year getting the Handbook up-to-date and have a bit more work to do on that front. The plan in doing so is to have a modernized, dead tree edition available through the FreeBSD Mall, as the last published version was over 10 years ago, as well as an epub version available for sale where the proceeds go directly to the FreeBSD Foundation. 

At one point there was a mechanism to automatically generate the Handbook in various formats, but it's my understanding that we are only doing HTML at this time. This is something we'll be discussing at the doc working group and sprints during BSDCan in June. If you happen to be attending that conference, feel free to join the doc sprints each evening :-)

Cheers,

Dru