Cost of Freedom
The Cost of Freedom is a book that started with a book sprint in Pourrières, France from November 2nd to 6th, 2015, and contributions from around the world. The book is one of many projects inspired by and demanding freedom for Bassel Khartabil, loved and celebrated Internet volunteer detained in Syria since 15 March 2012. #FREEBASSEL!
The was published at the end of the book sprint, but the topic remains vital and mission unfulfilled. To facilitate further edits and enhancements, the book sources have been migrated to GitHub and published with GitBook. Feel free and encouraged to open issues, propose edits (or even entirely new chapters), make translations, fork, copy, excerpt, share, promote, and otherwise make your own.
Technical details
Source and issues are available at GitHub.
Current build is available on gitbook.com with the HTML version published to book.costoffreedom.cc.
Build manually
Follow instructions at Gitbook:
npm -g install gitbook
gitbook serve
gitbook build
To build PDF and Epub locally, you need ebook-convert (packaged in Calibre):
gitbook pdf . ./costoffreedom.pdf
As of writing there are bugs in the gitbook toolchain that prevent it from generating EPUB files that will pass all validation checks. In order to overcome these problems, you can use a forked version of gitbook.
Clone the forked version:
git clone -b custom git@github.com:christopheradams/gitbook.git ~/gitbook-custom
cd ~/gitbook-custom
npm install
Link the gitbook command to the custom version:
gitbook versions:link ~/gitbook-custom
Now every time you run the gitbook command, it will use the custom version.
gitbook epub . ./costoffreedom.epub
You can see what version you are using with the command:
gitbook versions
To stop using the custom version:
gitbook versions:uninstall latest
To upload on Lulu, you need to add proper metadata. Use the folowing script
sh bin/create_ebook.sh
Build clean PDF with Latex
latexmk and pandoc are required.
make pdf
you will need xelatex and Scherazade font for Arabic language
sudo apt-get install texlive-xetex fonts-sil-scheherazade