epub version (How To)

[bashfulrobot]

I am not sure of the best way to approach this (to officially support on your end or not), but I generated an epub for the book using https://github.com/Michael-F-Bryan/mdbook-epub.

Steps

• Since I am on Ubuntu, I had to update the createBookFromReadme.sh to use the csplit command (search and replace).
• On Ubuntu I had to search and replace mdBook with mdbook in the script as well.
• Installed mdbook with cargo install mdbook --version 0.3.7 (the epub requires an older version)
• installed mdbook-epub with cargo install mdbook-epub
• Removed the data before "## Introduction" in the README.md due to a missing SVG file.
• added [output.epub] to the bottom of book.toml
• ran createBookFromReadme.sh - this results in the web preview having a 404, can ignore, and just ctrl-c to kill the script.
• The epub should be in the book directory

I just wanted to share the process in case any others wanted to add the book to a reader, etc.

[bashfulrobot]

PS, it's not perfect, could use some formatting cleanup, etc, but it is close enough for me (for now).

[vitali2y]

How about to generate epub, fb2 (or bunch of another formats) just in next 3 simple steps?

1. Open README.md in VSCode / VSCodium (with preliminary installed vscode-markdown-pdf extension),
2. Right click, then Markdown PDF: Export (html),
3. F="README" && pandoc $F.html --to=epub --output=$F.epub && ls -l $F.epub from CLI.

[dieterplex]

If you want to using newer mdbook or mdbook-epub,

replace commands

3. Installed mdbook with cargo install mdbook --version 0.3.7 (the epub requires an older version)
4. installed mdbook-epub with cargo install mdbook-epub

with
3. cargo install mdbook
4. cargo install --version 0.4.15-beta mdbook-epub

6. added [output.epub] to the bottom of book.toml

With mdbook-epub standalone mode,
step 6 is not needed but generate epub after step 7 (run createBookFromReadme.sh) with command

mdbook-epub -s .   # "." indicate the path where `book.toml` located

[azzamsa]

Anyone successfully produced the epub version. Would you like to share the output here?

[azzamsa]

I’ve always loved Easy Rust for its beginner-friendly explanations. The web version lacked highlights and comments, so I made EPUB editions. Easier to read, annotate, and carry on an e-reader.

https://github.com/azzamsa/easy_rust_ebook