Ask HN: Best tools for self-authoring books in 2023?

1. mdBook

   1 113 19,986 9.5 Rust

   Create book from markdown files. Like Gitbook but implemented in Rust

   

   If you want the lowest friction, open source, easily extensible Markdown to Web, Kindle, PDF, etc. tool, highly recommend mdBook: https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook it’s written in Rust, but you don’t have to know any Rust to use it. And then wing is all CSS; for which there are many good (free) themes.

2. Stream

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   Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video. Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.

   

3. book

   2 657 16,361 9.6 Rust

   The Rust Programming Language

   

   We use it to write docs in our company which are then compiled by GitHub Actions and published as GitHub Pages. The best example of a Book produced with mdBook is the Rust Lang book: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/

4. wool-june-rud-story

   3 1 0 10.0 TeX

   

   It's a short project, but here's an example in Latex+Git(hub)+Pandoc: https://github.com/cosmoosic/wool-june-rud-story

   I wrote a longer novella using the same approach, the repo still private as it's in copyediting phase (but it could be opened if there's interest).

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