https://github.com/ikrukov/epub

Free books in epub format
https://github.com/ikrukov/epub

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Free books in epub format

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/ikrukov/epub
• Owner: ikrukov
• Created: 2012-10-28T16:44:00.000Z (about 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2017-04-29T14:29:13.000Z (over 7 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-02T05:13:15.971Z (3 months ago)
• Language: Shell
• Size: 7.03 MB
• Stars: 70
• Watchers: 14
• Forks: 9
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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What is this?

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This is collection of free books in epub format, which I wanted

to have on my reader, but can't find in appropriate format.

Most of them converted from GNU texinfo.

How to convert book from texinfo to epub?

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There is a good paper on epub and epub creation process [here:] (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/tutorials/x-epubtut/)

In short, to convert texinfo to epub you shold do the following:

* Convert texi file to docbook format, using makeinfo:

	makeinfo --docbook /path/to/your/file.texi -o file.docbook

* using any XSLT-processor and docbook.xsl for epub convert docbook

to unpacked epub

 	xsltproc /path/to/your/docbook-xsl/epub/docbook.xsl file.docbook

	or 

	xsltproc http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/epub/docbook.xsl file.docbook

* create mimetype file

 	echo "application/epub+zip" > mimetype

* pack mimefile to epub (mimetype *MUST* be first file in archive and it *MUST NOT* be compressed!):

 	zip -0Xq  my-book.epub mimetype

* pack the rest of content to the same file:

 	zip -Xr9D my-book.epub META-INF OEBPS

If you are lucky my-book.epub will be valid epub file.