E-book Creation

For the creation of all these e-books, the following procedure is followed:

• the text is pasted & formatted with / written in / converted to markdown (and very rarely to html)

• the markdown (.md) file is converted to epub using pandoc

• the epub file is edited with calibre and finally…

• the epub file is converted to mobi and azw3 with calibre

• for azw3 files, additional soft hyphenation is added using hyphenate this! calibre plugin

Note, that for some texts, pdf files are provided too. These ones have either been created:

• with the “quick ‘n dirty” method of conversion via calibre, which is a bad solution as there is very little formatting control

• by exporting the epub to docx/odt, further editing with Libreoffice (and sometimes with MS Office), re-formatting and finally exporting to pdf