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-# Creating an Ebook With Markdown
-
-> Mon 30th March 2020 By David T. Sadler.
-
-Pandoc is a great tool for converting a file in one markup format into another. This means we can use it to convert a file written in Markdown into an EPUB file that is supported by many e-readers.
-
-Lets start by writting a very simple markdown file called example_ebook.md.
-
-```markdown
----
-title:
-- type: main
- text: Example Ebook
-- type: subtitle
- text: An Ebook created from a Markdown file
-creator:
-- role: author
- text: David Sadler
-publisher: Published by myself
----
-
-This is an introduction.
-
-# Chapter 1
-
-This is the first paragraph of chapter 1.
-
-This is the second paragraph of chapter 1.
-
-Below is a list.
-
-- Item One
-- Item Two
-- Item Three
-
-# Chapter 2
-
-This is the first paragraph of chapter 2.
-
-This is the second paragraph of chapter 2.
-
-# Chapter 3
-
-This is the first paragraph of chapter 3.
-
-This is the second paragraph of chapter 3.
-```
-
-Note that the file begins with a YAML metadata block that starts and ends with three hyphens (---). This allows you to specify EPUB metadata such as the title and author.
-
-Converting this to EPUB is done by running pandoc.
-
-```shell
-$ pandoc example_ebook.md -t epub3 --toc -o example_ebook.epub
-```
-
-There are several options that need to be passed to pandoc.
-
-* example_ebook.md - This argument is the file that you are converting.
-* -t epub3 - Set the output format to be EPUB v3 book.
-* --toc - Include a table of contents in the output document. This will be derived from the H1 headers in the markdown.
-* -o example_ebook.epub - Tell pandoc to output the conversion to the named file instead of stdout.
-
-You can now copy the file example_ebook.epub to any device that supports the format or use one of the many software readers such as Calibre. However, if you wish to read this on a Kindle device you will need to convert it to the Mobi format.
-
-Amazon provides a command line tool called KindleGen that can convert our EPUB file into the Mobi format. After downloading the tool just run it as shown below.
-
-```shell
-$ kindlegen example_ebook.epub
-```
-
-This will create a file called example_ebook.mobi that you can copy to your Kindle to read.
-
-### Links
-
-=> https://pandoc.org/ Pandoc.
-=> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown/ Markdown.
-=> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB/ EPUB.
-=> https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#extension-yaml_metadata_block YAML metadata block.
-=> https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#epub-metadata EPUB metadata.
-=> https://www.w3.org/community/epub3/ EPUB v3 book.
-=> https://calibre-ebook.com/ Calibre Application.
-=> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-book_formats#Mobipocket Mobi Format.
-=> https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000765211 KindleGen Application.
-
-=> /posts/markdown/ Markdown - Read More Posts.
-
-I don't have comments as I don't want to manage them. You can however contact me at the below address if you want to.
-
-=> mailto:david@davidtsadler.com Email david@davidtsadler.com
-
-=> https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ The contents of this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
-
-Copyright © 2021 David T. Sadler.
-
-=> / Return to Homepage.