cosmere-books/README.md

cosmere-books

Scripts to generate books from the Cosmere using various public sources. Currently supports the following books:

1. Oathbringer (Serialized till Chapter 32)
2. Way of Kings Reread

For obvious reasons, the converted ebooks are not part of this repo. You must download and run the script on your own machine to generate the copies.

The code for this is mostly adapted from hoshruba.

You can download sample files (Lorem Ipsum) from http://ge.tt/8R61oXm2 to see a sample of how the generated files look.

Oathbringer

Tor.com is publishing Oathbringer in serialized form till Chapter 32. This script downloads all of these posts and converts them into a publishable format, including epub, mobi, pdf and html. You can find the tor.com announcement at https://www.tor.com/2017/08/15/brandon-sanderson-oathbringer-serialization-announcement/

Way of Kings Reread

Join Michael Pye (aka The Mad Hatter) and Carl Engle-Laird as they dive into the details of Sanderson’s complex new world of Roshar. Find out more at https://www.tor.com/features/series/the-way-of-kings-reread-on-torcom/

Words of Radiance Reread

Welcome to the reread of Brandon Sanderson’s second Stormlight Archive series book Words of Radiance! This reread will be a collaborative effort between Tor.com’s own editorial assistant Carl Engle-Laird and long-time Tor.com commenter and Sanderson beta-reader Alice Arneson. This new partnership promises to be as potent as that between spren and Radiant. Join them in the Storm Cellar as they evaluate, discuss, question, and generally kibitz their way through the Words of Radiance.

More details at https://www.tor.com/series/words-of-radiance-reread-on-torcom/

Requirements

• Ruby

• Nokogiri gem installed (gem install nokogiri)

• Unix system with wget installed

• pandoc installed and available (for all 3 formats)

• (mobi only): ebook-convert (from calibre) available to generate the mobi file

• (pdf) wkhtmltopdf for converting html to pdf

• (pdf) pdftk to stitch the final PDF file

• The final 2 tools can be skipped if you don't care about the PDF generation.

• You can also skip calibre if you only want the EPUB file.

• Edit the last line in *.rb to :epub / :mobi, :pdf to only trigger the specific builds

Generation

Oathbringer

After downloading the repo and installing the requirements, just run

ruby oathbringer.rb

All the generated files will be saved with the filename Oathbringer.{epub|pdf|mobi|html}

Way of Kings Reread

To generate the book:

ruby wok-reread.rb

All the generated files will be saved with the filename wok-reread.{epub|pdf|mobi|html}

Words of Radiance Reread

To generate the book:

ruby wor-reread.rb

All the generated files will be saved with the filename books/wok-reread.{epub|pdf|mobi|html}. This generation might take a while because it contains a lot of images. It doesn't have the best possible index either, but is still pretty readable.

LICENSE

This is licensed under WTFPL. See COPYING file for the full text.