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   Scott Kellum :typetura: (scott@typetura.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Aug-2025 09:15:17 JST Scott Kellum :typetura:

   What’s the best way to author an epub today? I’d like to edit the xhtml directly, but am struggling with the conversion and packaging. I’m unhappy with the output from InDesign and Calibre.

   #lazyweb

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     Eaton (eaton@phire.place)'s status on Friday, 29-Aug-2025 09:15:14 JST Eaton

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     • Zach Leatherman
     • Mat “Wilto” Marquis

     @zachleat @scott @Wilto i feel like my first impulse is super unhelpful, since it mostly consists of, “hmmmmmm, i’ll bet we could make an 11ty to epub tool…”

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     Zach Leatherman (zachleat@fediverse.zachleat.com)'s status on Friday, 29-Aug-2025 09:15:16 JST Zach Leatherman

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     • Eaton
     • Mat “Wilto” Marquis

     @scott a completely optional cc to maybe @Wilto or @eaton?

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     Eaton (eaton@phire.place)'s status on Saturday, 30-Aug-2025 01:14:00 JST Eaton

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     • Ethan Marcotte
     • Zach Leatherman
     • Mat “Wilto” Marquis
     • Jonathan Snook

     @beep @Wilto @zachleat @scott @justsnook OH HO

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     Ethan Marcotte (beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com)'s status on Saturday, 30-Aug-2025 01:14:01 JST Ethan Marcotte

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     • Eaton
     • Zach Leatherman
     • Mat “Wilto” Marquis
     • Jonathan Snook

     @Wilto @zachleat @scott @eaton I know @justsnook wrote about HTML-to-epub conversion aaaaaages ago: https://snook.ca/archives/writing/ebook-notes

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     Mat “Wilto” Marquis (wilto@front-end.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Aug-2025 01:14:03 JST Mat “Wilto” Marquis

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     • Eaton
     • Zach Leatherman

     @zachleat @scott Can't say too much, here; I just kinda put the borders on things after @eaton figured out how to make the ABA epubs into Actual Website™. Eleventy -> epub certainly seems feasible, but I don't know any decent examples of it off the top of my head.