Features / Project Management. Make Your Own E-Books with Pandoc. As devices for reading e-books proliferate, it increasingly makes sense to make publications available in an e-book. There are a number of cases in which you might do this: If you have a blog and want to make the best posts into an e-book. For example, sociologist Kieran Healy created an e-book of posts from his blog.If you have content in one format that you want to read as an e-book instead. For example, our own Mark Sample took the open-access book Hacking the Academy and turned it into several versions of an e-book for Nooks, iPads, and Kindles.If you want to give your readers the option to read your content as an e-book. Making an e-book can be easy—almost trivially easy—using Pandoc, a tool I’ve written about earlier on ProfHacker. Since a good way to learn is by doing, let’s create an e-book of My Favorite ProfHacker Posts.
Here’s how to make an e-book with a few commands. 1. You’ll need a clean, plain-text copy of each of the documents that will go into your e-book. 2. 3. Pandoc - About pandoc. Pandoc Converts All Your (Text) Documents. For the past few months we ProfHackers have been running an occasional series about using the command line.
I got us started with a couple posts explaining why you might want to use the command line and how to get started using it. Konrad followed with a posts about the uniq command and the sort command for working with text and data files. Amy added a post about how the command line let her hack the NOOK Color, and I wrote about using pdftk to manipulate PDFs. Taking up the command line is easier if you have a specific problem you’re trying to solve. For me, the problem was that I wanted to do all of my writing in a plain text format, like Markdown or LaTeX. The best way I’ve found to move between these formats is Pandoc. Here’s an example of how this works. Markdown to HTML (HTML output on GitHub): pandoc pandoc-example.markdown -o pandoc-example.html Markdown to LaTeX (LaTeX output on GitHub): pandoc pandoc-example.markdown -o pandoc-example.tex Markdown to DOCX: Have you tried Pandoc?
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