I'm working on a tool to let sfotware developers write well-formatted ebooks and printed novels: https://frequal.com/epublish/

Example book here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GYCZJVGX

I couldn't open the chapter, but in case anyone else is trying to make a nicely formatted ebook, take a look at EPublish: https://frequal.com/epublish/

It's a software-engineer-friendly tool for converting HTML to EPUB. It handles all the annoying little details. Binaries coming later today.

A book created with EPublish: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GYCZJVGX

This bothered me so much that in my tool for HTML-native authors, EPublish ( https://frequal.com/epublish/ ), I automatically insert a no-AI-training clause on the copyright page. Not that it will stop the kind of executives who will authorize mass unauthorized downloading of books to train their LLMs, but we have to at least take a stand.

Thanks! It's available for Kindle Unlimited so if you subscribe to that, you can start reading right away, no checkout or payment required.

You're the second person to recommend Obsidian to me in a week, I'll take a look. For long-form writing, I'm very comfortable with my setup from article (html-helper-mode especially), but for notes I'll look at Obsidian.

Not open source yet, but I posted more information here: https://frequal.com/epublish/

Thanks for sharing more information.

I made a new post about EPublish itself here: https://frequal.com/epublish/

Nice post! Short and simple to read. Is epublish on GitHub or somewhere? It looks simpler than previous approaches I've seen.

I had the chance to help a bit with one of the AOSA books. It was a very powerful pipeline, but also quite complex to manage. IIRC it used pandoc (and a lot other tools).

So having a simpler alternative like epublish would be interesting if I have to work on another book in the future.

EDIT: sorry, just went to the main thread, and saw there you replied to another user it's not open source "yet" (hooray)

I did the same and switched to Ethical Ads (no cookies, tracking etc.) on https://frequal.com

Ethical Ads: https://www.ethicalads.io/

For the Java ecosystem, H2 fills this gap nicely, easily handling both in- memory and remote JDBC access:

https://frequal.com/java/TheBestDatabase.html

Sir Berners-Lee tells the story himself in this great memoir: https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/tim-berners-lee/this-is...

Lots of detail and inside stories about the work it took to keep the web open and free.

The title of the book reminds me of the end of "Roadside Picnic" by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky...

Can also recommend Weaving the Web by TBL.