steward VS tools

Hey I did this, too! I forgot until just now :)

https://github.com/phuff/epub_builder

I built it because I wanted to have something that made a daily brief news paper that was personalized and sent to my kindle. It makes an epub and uses kindlegen to convert it to a .mobi. There's a lot of fun epub formatting stuff you can do.

Here's the system that makes the daily newspaper, but it's been so long I'm not sure it's actually functional code outside of my production version:

https://github.com/phuff/steward

This violates the "One Tool" constraint that OP requested, but the Standard Ebooks tool chain is available on Github for anyone interested: https://github.com/standardebooks/tools

The code is GPL-3 and the templates are CC0: https://github.com/standardebooks/tools/blob/master/LICENSE....

Feel free to ask on the mailing list if you have any questions, more likely to be picked up there than in a random HN thread :)

I'll give a shoutout to some other excellent software.

The first is the "Standard Ebooks"[1] toolset, which is a suite of Python scripts to create, process, and build ebooks in all common formats. The results on the Standard Ebooks site speak for themselves. They're impeccable in every way, and far better than many big name, commercially produced efforts.

GitHub: https://github.com/standardebooks/tools

This question comes up a lot. The source to our production pipeline is GPLed and freely available,[1] but the biggest part of why we produce good work is that we have a high quality manual of style.[2] Unfortunately, that second part is very specific to English, and that’s the difficult part to replicate for other languages.

[1] https://github.com/standardebooks/tools/

[2] https://standardebooks.org/manual/