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Ask HN: Best tools for writing ebooks in 2020?

• scottporad 6y ago
  Looking forward to the answer to this question!
• alexmingoia 6y ago
  I wrote mine (https://gumroad.com/l/dDXav https://gumroad.com/l/dDXav) using markdown. I used pandoc to create the epub from markdown, a free online converter to convert epub to pdf, and kindlegen to convert epub to mobi. It was really easy. I didn’t pay anything to make the book. There are a number of Pandoc ePub templates floating around GitHub.
  • asicsp 6y ago
    I use pandoc too, for both epub and pdf. I wrote a tutorial for customizing pandoc for pdf generation [0] (though I need to update it with newer things I've tried) [0] https://learnbyexample.github.io/tutorial/ebook-generation/customizing-pandoc/ https://learnbyexample.github.io/tutorial/ebook-generation/c...
• yesenadam 6y ago
  I've been having a ball the last few years writing all kinds of ebooks with LaTeX - mathematics, programming, documentation, literary, illustrated notebook, diary etc. In my case, TeXShop from the standard Mac TeX distribution. It took a few months to become familiar with the language and the common packages, now it's all easy. The TeX Stack Exchange is awesome.