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All of the sections of the College Physics Openstax textbook
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Open philschatz opened 7 years ago

philschatz commented 7 years ago

Hello, I am a developer out at http://github.com/openstax and I noticed your project because of https://github.com/UMassP131/physics-book

I am always curious about how people use our books and was wondering how you used them, and what we could do to make it easier.

Just thought I would reach out 😄

Toggerson commented 7 years ago

Hello,

Thanks for reaching out. I am including a student on this conversation who has been doing most of the legwork on this project. We are now in the latter stages of putting a book together. We are trying to make a custom edition of the book by combining OpenStax with other CC resources. You can see a current-ish draft at https://cnx.org/contents/LAFHOi7u@27.1:F2xgRfpD@1/Kinetic-Energy-of-an-Object.

We currently have most all of our materials generated. We have been building the book using the CNX website which is painfully antiquated. A big problem is the time needed to publish the book to pdf. We need pdf as we are using a reading software tool, Perusall, which requires a pdf or epub. We see that openstax theoretically allows publishing to epub, but we have not been able to figure out how to do it.

We would really like a well supported OpenStax presence on GitHub. We saw a project led by yourself, but it seemed that the project was abandoned.

Thanks again for reaching out.

-Brokk Toggerson

On 8/24/2017 16:03, Philip Schatz wrote:

Hello, I am a developer out at http://github.com/openstax https://github.com/openstax and I noticed your project because of https://github.com/UMassP131/physics-book

I am always curious about how people use our books and was wondering how you used them, and what we could do to make it easier.

Just thought I would reach out 😄

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