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Dev tools · November 18, 2012

Build a Kindle book of PG's essays

Builds epub book out of Paul Graham's essays. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Build a Kindle book of PG's essays launched on November 18, 2012 with 53 votes, #38 of 543 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 13 years on.

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In plain words

This tool converts Paul Graham's essays into an EPUB e-book format. It collects the essays and packages them into a single digital book file that can be read on e-readers and other devices. The tool is designed for developers and essay readers who want to compile Graham's writing into a portable collection. It automates the process of gathering content and formatting it into a standard e-book format.

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I'm getting an error about an invalid java call, I suppose the "subprocess.call(['java', '-jar', checkerPath, epubPath], shell = True)" in epub.py. I have java installed. Details: java version "1.6.0_24" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.11.5) (6b24-1.11.5-0ubuntu1~10.04.2) OpenJDK Client VM (build 20.0-b12, mixed mode, sharing) One should change '455' to '435' at lines 28, 33 and 59 for this code to work. In order to get valid HTML (which is what .epub contains) you also need to remove the <font> tags (beyond just changing the table width to 435 as @gsdatta and @SergeAxfrom gist.github.com

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