Feature - issues as epub / ebooks

[mrchrisadams]

We had a one request asking about serving up issues of Branch as an ebook.

I asked one person, Vassillis Chryssos at APC, who made a version themselves and they shared a few links about how they did it:

Nice to hear that you found that useful! Even nicer that you're considering this for the next editions of Branch!

I followed this tutorial to do it:
https://austindw.com/website-to-ebook/

It is for Linux environment and takes a bit of tinkering, but eventually it works like a charm!

Another here:

On second thought, and since you obviously have the original content: you can use LibreOffice to directly export a document to epub.
https://opensource.com/article/21/3/libreoffice-command-line

You can even use the command line in linux to bulk export files as epub:
https://opensource.com/article/21/3/libreoffice-command-line

Alternatively you can do the same using Calibre:
https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/conversion.html

which will give you more control on the export parameters and the look and feel of the final e-book document.

hope one of these works for you!

I'm creating this issue as a placeholder for future related requests. If there's enough interest it might be a cool project to work on, but there's no commitment that we'll implement any of this yet.