The Project Gutenberg tool to generate EPUBs and other ebook formats.
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# EbookMaker
EbookMaker is the tool used for format conversion at Project Gutenberg. It builds EPUB2 and Kindle files from HTML. Also it builds HTML4, EPUB2, Kindle, and PDF files from reST sources.
## Prerequisites
Python2 >= 2.7 or Python3 >= 3.3
HTMLTidy,
Kindlegen,
TexLive, and
groff.
Tested with Python 3.6
## Install
(dev branch, editable install) pipenv install ebookmaker
Use the ebookmaker.conf file to pass a path to your kindlegen, tex, and groff programs if they’re not in your PATH
## Sample invocation
ebookmaker -v -v –make=epub.images –output-dir=/Documents/pg /Documents/library/58669/58669-h/58669-h.htm
## Test
Use python setup.py test
Travis-CI will run tests on branches committed in the gutenbergtools org
## new to pipenv?
Install pipenv (might be pip install –user pipenv, depending on your default python)
$ pip3 install –user pipenv
Change directories to where you want to have your ebookmaker environment. Then, to initialize a python 3 virtual environment, do
$ pipenv –three
Whenever you want to enter this environment, move to this directory and do:
$ pipenv shell
Install the gutenberg modules:
$ pipenv install ebookmaker
Check your install:
$ ebookmaker –version EbookMaker 0.6.0
Since you’re in the shell, you can navigate to a book’s directory and convert it:
$ ebookmaker -v -v –make=epub.images –ebook 10001 –title “The Luck of the Kid” –author “Ridgwell Cullum” luck-kid.html
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