RSB Format

[This specification is subject to change]

The RSB File Format - RaggieSoft Book - is a very simple INI like file structure that expects only a few entries.

[Book Data]
Book Name=Rachel's Story 1
Description=This is the story about Rachel and her family growing up.
File Name=rachel1\default.htm
Web=http://books.raggiesoft.com/rachel1

The above is from Rachel's Story, Book 1 and should be simple, but if not:

Book Name: the name of the book. Currently not used; I might put it to some use later
Description: a very short description of the book. This WILL change to be a path to a plain text file in future builds (I will update this page when I have that ready)
File Name: relative path to book structure. Book Reader Platform expects all books in the Books\BookShortName folder
Web: if the File Name can't be found, or the end-user wants to read without downloading your whole book, this is where the book can also be found
The filename for your RSB file should be something descriptive as that's what will show up in the Book Reader welcome screen (for example, Rachel's Story 1.rsb)
To create the actual book, any HTML tool can be used since the Book Reader is nothing more than an embedded browser
Please, feel free to study an existing install as much as you need to o you can get the feel for the Platform
To add a RSB file to the Platform, simply drop it in where the others are. It will show up next time the Platform is launched
Should the user decide to uninstall the Platform, the following is done:
- After the known books are removed, the uninstaller will do a "forced-purge" of the Books\*.* (and all subfolders)
- A forced-purge of *.RSB is done from the main folder
- This ensures that nothing is left on the user's system, even if my uninstaller "doesn't know" about your book

Things I'm looking into

Creating a Drop-Down menu on the Donate button: this would allow the end-user to donate to either my Reader Platform project or to your book by adding a donate URL to the RSB file. Personally, I use PayPal