EBooks

A fun side-project that I often pick up is generation of semantically correct EPUB/MOBI/PDF files from various online books and content. This is a short list:

Oathbringer

Chapters 0-32 from Oathbringer, Book 3 in the Stormlight Archive, being published by Tor in serialized format. (ongoing)

Way of Kings Reread

Tor’s re-read of Way of kings, Book 1 in the Stormlight Archive.

Words of Radiance Reread

Tor re-read of Words of Radiance, Book 2 in the Stormlight Archive.

Edgedancer Reread

Tor re-read of Edgedancer, a novella between Books 2 & 3 in the Stormlight Archive.

Way of Kings Prime

Brandaon Sanderson published a few chapters from the earliest draft of Way of Kings (2002, while the book was published almost a decade later).

Hoshruba

Tor’s serialized publication of Hoshruba-The Land and the Tilism.

Magic Muggle

Harry Potter fan-fiction about a muggle going to Hogwarts. (3rd book ongoing)

Google SRE

Google’s book on Site Reliability Engineering. Published by google as a online read.

Things next on my list:

• https://www.tor.com/series/warbreaker-reread-brandon-sanderson/
• White Sand (From .doc to EPUB)
• https://www.tor.com/series/malazan-reread-of-the-fallen/
• https://www.tor.com/series/a-read-of-ice-and-fire/
• https://www.tor.com/series/jonathan-strange-mr-norrell-reread/

I only provide the scripts for the generation on GitHub. If you’d like a copy without having to run the script, get in touch and ask.

References

Here are links to other similar tools that you might like:

• https://github.com/iarna/fetch-fic
• http://ficsave.xyz/
• http://ff2ebook.com/old/
• https://github.com/sainathadapa/reddit2mobi
• https://doocer.com, which generates EPUB/MOBI files out of RSS/ATOM feeds, and given a TOC. Pretty cool
• Calibre Recipes, which are similar but mostly focused on news websites instead of online books.

As a side-effect, I often get into the rabbit hole of generating the perfect EPUB instead of actually reading them.