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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.

---
+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.

$ pandoc example_ebook.md -t epub3 --toc -o example_ebook.epub

There are several options that need to be passed to pandoc.

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.

$ kindlegen example_ebook.epub

This will create a file called example_ebook.mobi that you can copy to your Kindle to read.

Links

Pandoc.Markdown.EPUB.YAML metadata block.EPUB metadata.EPUB v3 book.Calibre Application.Mobi Format.KindleGen Application.Markdown - Read More Posts.

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