Jul 30, 2020 07:00:00

A writer who says 'there is no ideal e-book creation software' creates his own e-book creation software

An e-book creation software that satisfies the elements of 'lightweight', 'excellent

typography ', and 'can generate web version and EPUB version at the same time from the same text', and 'creates pages' and 'select/copy text' data The sought-after author, Robin Sloan , wrote the software himself because he couldn't find what was ideal. The created e-book creation software ' Perfect Edition ' is open source software on GitHub.

GitHub-robinsloan/perfect-edition: A lightweight, responsive web e-book template
https://github.com/robinsloan/perfect-edition

Sloan seeks a loan to create a crowdfunding page on his website to create the software. You can check the sample e-book data actually output in Perfect Edition from the following URL.

Annabel Scheme and the Adventure of the New Golden Gate
https://robinsloan.github.io/perfect-edition/build/web/index.html

The sample is compatible with smartphones and PCs. For smartphones, swipe or tap the edge of the page, for laptops use the arrow keys, space bar, touch pad, and for desktop PCs use the arrow keys, space bar, and mouse scroll wheel to turn pages. This time I saw a sample from a PC.

As Mr. Sloan's ideal is, the text can be selected and copied by dragging.

Click the square icon at the bottom of the page to open the table of contents.

The table of contents is displayed in a dialog format.

You can adjust the font size in 5 steps by clicking 'A' at the bottom of the table of contents. Select the largest size……

The font size has changed. The page break was done automatically according to the size.

It looks like this when the font size is minimized.

When you close and reopen the e-book, a bookmark will be displayed in the red frame part, and you can open it from the middle page.

At the time of writing the article, Mr. Sloan said, 'I'm still far from the full version, so I will continue to maintain it regularly.'