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    <description>The latest articles on DEV Community by Christian Cassarly (@jesusnewapp).</description>
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      <title>Shipping a free book with clickable PDF chapters and valid EPUB navigation</title>
      <dc:creator>Christian Cassarly</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 17:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://dev.to/jesusnewapp/shipping-a-free-book-with-clickable-pdf-chapters-and-valid-epub-navigation-1an</link>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;OS architect Christian Cassarly takes you on a self-development journey through the language of an operating system. First, set up your mental OS with Christ at its center. Then put it through a practice run: recognize spiritual “viruses” and “malware,” test your defenses, and build a firewall for your thought life. Finally, upgrade into your new version—carrying renewed faith, purpose, and leadership into daily life. Released alongside Cassarly’s JESUS DASH operating-system project, Jesus New OS: Christ Mind OS connects that inner journey with the software he architected. Explore the actual operating-system project at JesusDash.com and JesusNew.com. Read the complete book free, with clickable PDF chapters and an EPUB edition. For developers working on readers, archives, or document delivery, this release also offered a practical navigation problem: a complete file needs to work as a usable reading experience.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  Two formats, two navigation checks
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The PDF has &lt;strong&gt;206 pages, 57 internal contents links, and 78 bookmarks&lt;/strong&gt;. Readers can jump from the contents to a chapter instead of scrolling through the whole file.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The EPUB needed a separate repair. Its original navigation included incomplete nested lists and conflicting NCX play-order values. The repaired package has 68 contents entries and an embedded cover; EPUBCheck 5.4 finished with zero errors and zero warnings. A valid EPUB does not automatically prove good reading behavior, so reader checks matter too.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  What the release checks covered
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Keep the original Word, PDF, and EPUB files intact.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Validate the repaired EPUB package and its contents structure.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Check PDF chapter destinations and bookmarks against the actual pages.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Open public readers and test chapter jumps.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Where a host recompresses the PDF, compare extracted text and retained navigation instead of expecting identical bytes.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;For example, the Linkjar download retained all 206 pages, 78 bookmarks, and 66 annotations. Whitespace-normalized text matched on every page even though the host changed the file bytes. That is a different check from verifying an untouched download by its hash.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  Read or inspect the edition
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/jesusnewapp/jesus-new-os-book" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;Free PDF and EPUB on GitHub&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=gygQEgAAQBAJ" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;Free Google Play Books edition&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://archive.org/details/jesus-new-os-christ-mind-os-polished-2026" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;Internet Archive reader and downloads&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;The book is Christian nonfiction. Explore the operating-system project at &lt;a href="https://jesusdash.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;JesusDash.com&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://jesusnew.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;JesusNew.com&lt;/a&gt;. The book files remain copyright Christian Cassarly, all rights reserved; free reading does not grant an open-source license.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This post was prepared by an AI assistant using the author’s instructions and recorded checks on the published reader files.&lt;/p&gt;

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      <category>a11y</category>
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      <title>Web Sweeper: Building Provenance-Protected Libraries for Future AI Training</title>
      <dc:creator>Christian Cassarly</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 22:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://dev.to/jesusnewapp/web-sweeper-building-provenance-protected-libraries-for-future-ai-training-4nka</link>
      <guid>https://dev.to/jesusnewapp/web-sweeper-building-provenance-protected-libraries-for-future-ai-training-4nka</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Web Sweeper is an open-source library builder created by Christian Cassarly through Jesus New OS for future AI training models and research.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;It is designed to move complete, policy-approved works through a protected pipeline:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Source discovery&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Policy screening&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Acquisition&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Protected staging&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Publication&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Live verification&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The system preserves provenance, resumability, exact duplicate protection, serialized production writes, and permanent verification receipts. Its goal is not simply to download files. Its goal is to build trustworthy, auditable digital libraries that future AI systems and researchers can use responsibly.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  Why it matters
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Future AI training requires more than volume. It requires clear sources, reliable processing, recoverable work, and evidence showing exactly what became part of a library. Web Sweeper brings those safeguards into one repeatable workflow.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  Open-source project
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Explore the source code and current documentation on GitHub:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/jesusnewapp/web-sweeper" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;github.com/jesusnewapp/web-sweeper&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Web Sweeper is under active development. Capabilities and library totals should be evaluated from the latest public documentation and authoritative verification receipts.&lt;/p&gt;

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      <category>ai</category>
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