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[ebook] all about ebook #ebook, #epub, #mobi, #md

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eBook

is a writing format, not a publishing format.

there are two main formats for ebook:

mobi format is famous because of Amazon Kindle Personally I prefer creating the MOBI myself so I can be 100% sure that the formatting is what I want.

use pandoc to create the epub and mobi file. To install pandoc CLI http://pandoc.org/installing.html

To add pandoc metadata to md file

% title
% author(s) (separated by semicolons)
% date

To convert md to epub

pandoc -o 04_testing.epub 04_testing.md

To customize the font size of code block in pandoc

pip install pandoc-latex-fontsize

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