Collection Mode

Here I am posting some organizing thoughts and information for how I should like to implement what I am currently calling "Bundle Mode."

Imagine the following situation. A teacher wishes to assign a reading list to eir students, comprised of a number of articles of various types (research articles, reviews, and essays for instance). Rather than require eir students to download and organize a collection of papers, ey would like to package them all together in the order in which they should be read. "Bundle Mode" should provide just that, a series of papers all bundled into the same ePub file. Or perhaps we would like to publish a PLoS Issue as a single file (with a collective Table of Contents like you can find here).

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In order to do this: we must have a way of concatenating our Table of Contents in toc.ncx; we must have a way of organizing the metadata, manifest, spine (and guide) within the content.opf file; and we must iteratively process the data for each article into unique xml files.