Creating ebooks

For me, creating ebooks has been all about knowledge consolidation and to be able to help others without my active time investment.

An offer you cant refuse: use your time to gain curated knowledge.

I was tinkering with ebooks creation here and with a website to show them here.

It was all about to extract knowledge from Kinddle clippings and I ended up creating some instead.

ebooks 101

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I ended up giving free consolidated branded value via web/ebooks

PDFs

PDFs are strange files, actually.

As long as you are confortable with pandoc, you just need a .md to create a pdf.

What for? For example, to create a quick hand over document:

#git clone https://github.com/JAlcocerT/ourika
pandoc hand-over.md -o hand-over.pdf
#cd /home/jalcocert/Desktop && zip -r ourika.zip ourika -x "ourika/node_modules/*" -x "ourika/.git/*"

Thanks to R Language + Rmd + Latex, creating cool PDFs is very simple.

See the source code of the open ebooks Ive created for the docs here

#git clone https://github.com/JAlcocerT/JAlcocerT.git
#cd JAlcocerT/

# From the repo root 
Rscript Z_ebooks/render.R \
  --input Z_ebooks/dna-ebook.md \
  --output Z_ebooks/dna-ebook.pdf \
  --cover Z_ebooks/sample-cover.png