I have Calibre, and eventually intend to set up Calibre Web and maybe even configure the Kobo to use that as its sync source.

I have accumulated a number of books over the years from various sources in various formats. Obviously, I would want to have as many of them converted into EPUB files or even kepub files. I know that Calibre can help with that process, but I have a strong feeling the PDF to EPUB conversion will be pretty bad. In which case, I need to hunt down existing EPUB versions of books I have.

When it comes to the various works of Marx and Engels, they can be found all over the place, in archives all over the web, but getting them into a good EPUB format isn't exactly simple.

There is a part of me that wants to come up with a strong process of converting markdown versions of these works into well styled and organized EPUB formats and letting them be free online somewhere. Considering EPUB files are just a zip file of HTML files and various specific EPUB formatting, it feels like something I could really tackle. However, that takes time, which I have very little of.

So, I guess, my question might be two things:

  1. Do you have any suggestions for good published collections of Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin's works? Not marxist.org archives, but actual book collections (that probably have a good EPUB file I can 'find')
  2. Do you have any suggestions for tools that could be used to pull a page like https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:Manifesto_of_the_Communist_Party into a given format (plain text, markdown, etc.)?
  • nohaybanda [he/him]
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    9 days ago

    I’ve been eyeing Kobo for a few weeks now. Would you recommend any particular model?

    • Red5@lemmygrad.ml
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      9 days ago

      I have the Kobo Klara Colour, and it is very good. The colour is obviously not the most vibrant thing, but it makes a nice change and was only a bit more expensive than the black and white one.