The "Reference Book" is actually for my daughter so the format is not that important initially, just that it produces a finished multiple page keyword searchable document. I want to be able to arrange it into topic sections, Vehicles, Dealing with Government, Home Repairs, Pure Bull**it, etc. etc.
Its kinda like emptying my brain of what I have learned through education and experience. Record it in one place (file/book) that she can access when she has a problem, and I'm gone.
An simple example would be having red liquid leaking from her car. Searching keywords car/leak/red, and finding an article I wrote on colors of fluids in cars and where they come from, with keywords, car, leak, fluid.
I tried to do the same thing with my father (a genius by the way) but the only technology we had back then was cassette audio recorder. I told him to talk into the recorder about anything and "empty his brain". He was doing it but unfortunately became sick and passed before I got too far.
As far as publishing it for the masses, I have been told that epub is the most common format for ebooks, I haven't researched that, but if true, that would be my first choice for ebook format.
