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On 1/31/2024 12:35 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote:
The others can probably be read with Calibre, possibly more.
I'd guess that htmlz can be read directly by some web browser. Google
doesn't confirm, but instead confirms that Calibre opens them.
In that case, I would think that the book.docx is the original, and the others were conversions by Calibre to read the book on several epub readers.
Apologies for the lack of detail forcing people to guess. Here's detail.
I spoke with the kid who is a teenager of his young grade school sister who
is in the YMCA Adventure Guides. The book is not intended to be printed.
We are fathers trying to empower girls to think for themselves and not to
take the opinion from others as gospel, so we give all of them the same
book and we give them only fifteen minutes to figure what the message is.
They spend more than an hour in a circle discussing the book, where it's
almost like one of those "telephone" games we played when we were kids.
It's never going to be printed. It's a one-time event. Each month we have
to have a "craft" which teaches the kids something. The craft is designed
by the father (women aren't allowed in the process) to be "educational".
The teenager explained to me he used Calibre and that he downloaded the
book off the Internet in the mobi format. He converted it to the other
formats (there are something like two dozen possible output formats).
The problem with mobi is we can't expect the kids to read a mobi on their
own phones, iPads, tablets & laptops that they will bring to the meeting.
The file will be hosted at 192.168.1.x on the local home's LAN. We meet
once a month with the hundreds of girls in the YMCA Adventure Guides (moms
are NEVER allowed!), for example, for a weekend camping event or a Saturday canoeing event or a Sunday sleepover in the local amusement park, or
whatever.
https://ymcamontgomery.org/camp/programs/father-child-weekend/
Then once a month we meet with just a dozen fathers and their kids (the
women and brothers are told to stay out of mind, out of sight) for a cozier tribal get together (we used to be called "YMCA Indian Princesses" but (for some reason, we're told never to speak about Native Americans at the
events). We even had to change our chant because it was an Indian
expression (we were told) so we reversed the letters - as a nod to the
concept of following the rules in our own way.
http://ytribes.com/ https://ymcaoc.org/adventure-guides-history/
Bear in mind the Adventure Guides is about as unlike the Girl Scouts and
Boy Scouts as Hitler Youth are from the Gospel Choir - so it's not about following rules but about breaking the rules - it's not about earning
badges but about having fun with the fathers (women aren't allowed within a hundred feet of any of the YMCA Adventure Guide events - unless they're
wearing a bathing suit - we've made that exception due to one new member
whose wife is more stunning than ours is so that's a running joke).
It's not about saluting but all about empowering girls and boys to have fun their friends and with like minded fathers with school-age small kids.
In the beginning of the year the dozen fathers get together to plan the rotating home hosting schedule and what the topic of each meeting can be.
Home hosts shoo the ladies away and set up a group meeting with fathers and girls (or boys for the boys Adventure Guides) that has a learning "craft".
This "craft" is for the host father to choose a book from this list.
https://happyhooligans.ca/best-chapter-books-for-girls/
Then to obtain that book and put it on his local network for the kids to
access locally. The kids will bring their own personal devices to read it.
The HTML seemed most appropriate for that, which is why the HTMLZ showed up
as the teen who did all the work seems to have known what he was doing.
I noted in a different thread that TXT is another output format, but it
loses the images (and their context) that HTMLZ preserves.
What I didn't know at the start was that it doesn't seem like ANYTHING
reads the HTMLZ output. Not even Calibre. The HTMLZ is just a zip output.
So it was wrong of me to assume Firefox would read the HTMLZ file.
What Firefox reads is the index.html file (and associated images).
I'm not sure how much other stuff is needed but this is in the folder.
./images/
./cover.jpg
./index.html
./metadata.opf
./style.css
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