css-books

Example files for building CSS books. I use these as my starting point and reference them in my presentation CSS and Ebooks and Net Magazine tutorial. Resources and more information about CSS and creating ebooks in a variety of formats can be found on my site Book Toolkit.

Using these files

The file book.html contains 3 articles from my blog to create a "book" of three chapters.

These files are for use when creating an ebook in formats for EPUB, MOBI and PDF using the following commandline tools.

• pandoc
• Kindlegen
• Prince

Download and install these tools first. Prince is a commercial tool however you can use it free of charge for non-commercial usage.

Git clone this repository.

Create an EPUB

Change into the css-ebooks directory and at the cli run:

> pandoc -o builds/book.epub book.html --epub-metadata=metadata.xml --toc --toc-depth=2 --epub-cover-image=cover.png --epub-stylesheet=epub-styles.css

Create a MOBI

Use your EPUB as the source for the Kindlegen tool.

> /Applications/KindleGen/kindlegen builds/book.epub

Create a PDF

This uses the toc.html file to create the table of contents.

> prince -s pdf-styles.css toc.html book.html builds/book.pdf

I've avoided doing much in the way of typography in these examples but feel free to fork this and make it pretty.