[NTLUG:Discuss] good "book" format for html?

[Kevin Brannen]

Steve Baker wrote:

> Kevin Brannen wrote:
>
>> I'm looking for a good format to hold books that are in HTML, 
>> something that can hold the HTML, including any graphics (or other 
>> files) that support it.  If I were in the MS world, the CHM format 
>> would probably be what I wanted.  But, I want to use this in Linux, 
>> so an "open standard" is really what I'm searching for.
>
>
> Well, if you want to be able to read them - then what's wrong with 
> dumping each one
> into a separate directory - call it "index.html" and you're done??


Cause it's sooooo nice to be able to say this *1* file is the book (or 
article or whatever).  No other muss or fuss. :-)

> If you don't want to be able to read them at a moment's notice then 
> dump each
> book into a gzipped tarball.


I have considered writing a program that knew how take a tarball, expand 
it into a temp place (ramdisk, /tmp/$$, mmap, ?), then pop up a browser 
for that as a poor man's alternative.  In the perfect world, it'd be 
simpler than that.

Kevin