Viliam_Bur comments on How To Actually Change Your Mind eBook (In Order) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Viliam_Bur 07 September 2012 09:30:23AM *  0 points [-]

What is your favorite way of making eBooks in different formats? I can imagine two solutions:

a) Make the eBook in one format, and then use some applications to automatically convert it to the remaining formats. Possible disadvantage: if the latter formats allow some features that the original format does not support, the converted versions will not use them.

b) Write the eBook in some format-independent language, such as TeX or DocBook, and then compile it to all formats.

I don't have much experience with eBooks, so I don't know what kinds of formats are there, what are their features, and what convertors/compilers exist.

Comment author: Elec0 09 September 2012 04:27:45AM 1 point [-]

I made it in a program called eCub, which compiles .html files to a .epub file, which I then converted to other formats in Calibre.