Consider distributing other format books among the mdbook format books
glyn opened this issue · 6 comments
Rather than putting them out of order in their own chapter, perhaps we should use some other way of indicating non-mdbook books which could then be listed in the appropriate chapters.
@kw-fn WDYT?
I hadn't looked that closely to notice whether indexing the different formats makes a difference in information retrieval. I think that several shorter lists are better than long lists though that might also contribute to information hiding.
Sure. My concern was that having a separate chapter for "other format" books means that these books are not organised in topics. I kept the other format books separate to manage a potential influx of non-mdbook format books, but that influx now seems unlikely.
Personally I prefer topic-level organization over format-level.
Ok, we are agreed.
While we are re-organising the book, I wonder if it would be worth mixing the official books in among the rest, again organising by topics?
I would like to find some way of indicating which books are official and which are "other format" because I don't want the book to descend into a list of any old Rust websites as that wouldn't really be in the spirit of a "book of books". My main purpose in creating the book was to collect together all the (nice) books which I kept bumping into randomly.
That's an interesting question. I think I like the format where the books about Rust lang are kept separate from the applications as the two highest-level categories.
Actually, I might even consider finessing the distinction between mdbook format and other (similar) formats as that is really a detail from the readers' perspective. We just need to avoid including print books and completely non-book formats, I think.