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Script to generate PDF and EPUB for "The Ickabog" by J.K Rowling
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- Auto generation of chapters, no manual updates
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- Generatd cover.pdf, and switched to qpdf from pdftk
  I like pdftk, but the installation is stupidly hard these days
  and qpdf seems to be much more lightweight.
  The disadvantage is losing the bookmarks in the PDF

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README.md

ickabog-ebook

Generates ebooks for The Ickabog by J.K Rowling. Original text from https://www.theickabog.com/. Since the book is still being published, please consider this "in-progress".

Dependencies:

  • wget
  • pup
  • pandoc to generate EPUB and PDF files
  • qpdf to add cover to PDF files. (optional)
  • kindlegen or calibre installed to generate MOBI files. (optional)

How to run

./generate.sh

You should have ickabog.epub, and ickabog.pdf in your directory after the script finishes. If you have ConTeXt installed, you will also get a ickabog-large.pdf file with large fonts to be kid-friendly.

Known Issues

The PDF is optimized for few pages of printing, so has a small font size by default. If you'd like a kid-friendly version, install context to get ickabog-large.pdf file.

Extra

A list of my other EBook generation projects: https://captnemo.in/ebooks/, includes a link to other related projects as well.

Credits

The cover art is Avanyu by Julian Martinez. Used under Creative Commons license.

Julian Martinez, Avanyu, ca. 1923, watercolor, ink, and pencil on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Corbin-Henderson Collection, gift of Alice H. Rossin, 1979.144.85

Code for internationalization and automatic chapter updates via @lesensei's fork.

License

The little code in this repository is licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE file for details.