rebookmaker 0.8.3

EPUB generator

Info:

This is the README file for rebookmaker.

Author:

Shlomi Fish <[e-mail]>

Copyright:

© 2020, Shlomi Fish.

Date:

2021-03-20

Version:

0.8.3

PURPOSE

rebookmaker - an open source (MIT-licensed) re-implementation of Marcelo Lira’s ( @setanta ) ebookmaker.

EPUB is a popular and open file format standard for electronic books (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB for more information about it). What rebookmaker (= “re-ebook-maker”) does is compile a definition of the book inside a JSON file along with some input HTML and image files into an .epub.

See:

• https://github.com/setanta/ebookmaker/ - does not have an explicit licence, which prompted this re-implementation.

• https://pypi.org/project/ebookmaker/ - GPLv3 by Project Gutenberg and incompatible with @setanta ‘s .

INSTALLATION

pip3 install rebookmaker

NOTES

Since the name “ebookmaker” was taken on pypi and it is common courtesy to change the name, I picked “rebookmaker” since it was available on pypi and as a pun on reboots in fiction because it was a rewrite.

The issue where I requested an explicit licensing of the original project is here: https://github.com/setanta/ebookmaker/issues/8 but I have yet to receive a reply.

You can find some examples for valid input by perusing the code in https://github.com/shlomif/screenplays-common and https://github.com/shlomif/shlomi-fish-homepage . Preparing some less generic examples is on my TODO list.

This project aims for compatibility with setanta’s project, but some functionality may be still missing and I also added some new one.

Samples:

• https://github.com/shlomif/english-humanity-the-movie-rebookmaker-example - under CC-BY-SA.

Similar Projects:

• http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/epub/README - DocBook 5 can be converted to EPUB.

• https://github.com/shlomif/cookiecutter–shlomif-latemp-sites - contains some custom XSLT stylesheets for reproducible builds and other features.

• https://pypi.org/project/ebookmaker/ - by Project Gutenberg: accepts a different input.

• https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/strip-nondeterminism - allow for reproducible builds EPUBs.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2020, Shlomi Fish. All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions, and the following disclaimer.

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3. Neither the name of the author of this software nor the names of contributors to this software may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written consent.

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