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A collection of awesome books (handwritten guides, auto-build almanacs w/ open data, etc.) in wikitext
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A collection of awesome books (handwritten guides, auto-build almanacs w/ open data, etc.) in wikitext
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/mundimark/awesome-books
- Owner: mundimark
- Created: 2015-05-05T08:54:22.000Z (over 9 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2015-07-19T16:04:22.000Z (over 9 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-05-23T02:04:04.353Z (5 months ago)
- Size: 199 KB
- Stars: 59
- Watchers: 7
- Forks: 5
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
# Awesome Books
A collection of awesome books (handwritten guides, auto-build almanacs w/ open data, etc.) in wikitext
Note: :book: stands for the online book page and :octocat: stands for the GitHub page.
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[ANNOUNCEMENT] Looking for awesome markdown goodies (e.g. libraries, services, editors, tools, etc.)? See the [Awesome Markdown List](https://github.com/writekit/awesome-markdown).
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#### _Contributions welcome. Anything missing? Send in a pull request. Thanks._
## Book Examples
### "Hand-Written" Book Examples
- **PHP: The Right Way** ([:book: phptherightway.com](http://www.phptherightway.com), github: [codeguy/php-the-right-way](https://github.com/codeguy/php-the-right-way)) by Josh Lockhart, Phil Sturgeon
- **The Front-End Tooling Book** ([:book:](http://tooling.github.io/book-of-modern-frontend-tooling), github: [tooling/book-of-modern-frontend-tooling](https://github.com/tooling/book-of-modern-frontend-tooling)) by Addy Osmani et al
- **Go Bootcamp** ([:book: golangbootcamp.com/book](http://www.golangbootcamp.com/book), github: [github.com/GoBootcamp/book](https://github.com/GoBootcamp/book)) by Matt Aimonetti
- [Learn you an Agda (and Achieve Enlightenment) :book:](http://learnyouanagda.liamoc.net) - [:octocat:](https://github.com/liamoc/learn-you-an-agda) by Liam O'Connor
- [You Don't Know JS (Book Series) :octocat:](https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS) by Kyle Simpson
- [Up & Going :book:](https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS/blob/master/up%20&%20going/README.md)
- [Scope & Closures :book:](https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS/blob/master/scope%20&%20closures/README.md)
- [this & Object Prototypes :book:](https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS/blob/master/this%20&%20object%20prototypes/README.md)
- [Types & Grammar :book:](https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS/blob/master/types%20&%20grammar/README.md)
- [Async & Performance :book:](https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS/blob/master/async%20&%20performance/README.md)
- [ES6 & Beyond :book:](https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS/blob/master/es6%20&%20beyond/README.md)
**Open Data Handbook**
- [Open Data Handbook, 1st Edition :book:](http://opendatahandbook.org) - [:octocat:](https://github.com/okfn/opendatahandbook) by Rufus Pollock et al (Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN))
- [Open Data Handbook, 2nd Edition :book:](http://new.opendatahandbook.org) - [:octocat:](https://github.com/okfn/opendatahandbook-v2) by Rufus Pollock et al (Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN)) - note: 1st edition in reStructedText, 2nd edtion in markdown
**Pro Git**
- [Pro Git, 1st Edition :book:](http://git-scm.com/book/en/v1) - [:octocat:](https://github.com/progit/progit/tree/master/en) by Scott Chacon; 2009
- [Pro Git, 1st Edition (GitBook Version) :book:](http://gitbookio.gitbooks.io/progit/content/en/) - [:octocat:](https://github.com/GitbookIO/git/tree/master/en) - note: automatically generated by progit-to-gitbook script [:octocat:](https://github.com/AaronO/progit-to-gitbook); uses hashes for folder names
- [Pro Git, 2nd Edition :book:](http://git-scm.com/book/en/v2) - [:octocat:](https://github.com/progit/progit2) by Scott Chacon, Ben Straub; 2014; note: 1st edition in markdown, 2nd edition in asciidoc
### Open Data "Auto-Build" Book Examples
- [The Free World Beer Book :book:](http://openbeer.github.io/book) - [:octocat:](https://github.com/openbeer/book), [Templates :octocat:](https://github.com/book-templates/beer) - work-in-progress; auto-build using the beer.db and markdown templates w/ a static site generator
- [The Free World Football Almanac :book:](http://openfootball.github.io/book) - [:octocat:](https://github.com/openfootball/book), [Templates :octocat:](https://github.com/book-templates/football) - work-in-progress; auto-build using the football.db and markdown templates w/ a static site generator
### (World Literature) Classics
- **The Trial** (github: [worldclassics/the-trial](https://github.com/worldclassics/the-trial)) by Franz Kafka
- **Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde** ([:book:](http://drjekyllthemes.github.io/jekyll-book-theme/), github: [worldclassics/dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde](https://github.com/worldclassics/dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde)) by Robert Louis Stevenson
## Book Projects
### Project Gutenberg (PG)
- [gutenberg.org](http://www.gutenberg.org) - 40 000+ books in plain text (classics incl. William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Franz Kafka, and many more)
- [Article: Project Gutenberg @ Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Gutenberg)
More
- [Project GITenberg :octocat:](https://github.com/GITenberg)
### Wikpedia Book Projects
Wikisource
- [wikisource.org](http://www.wikisource.org) - the free library that anyone can improve; 300 000+ texts in English
- [Article: Wikisource @ Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikisource)
Wikibooks
- [wikibooks.org](http://www.wikibooks.org) - open textbooks (50 000+ pages in english) in wiki markup
- [Article: Wikibooks @ Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikibooks)
Wikipedia
- [Wikipedia Help: Books](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Books) - turn wikipedia pages into books; help for creating books
- [Wikipedia Help: Books/FAQ](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Books/FAQ) - frequently asked questions (and answers)
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