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

Hey folks,

I'm a fairly "nerdy" person who loves to spend time in text-editors, terminals and (if needed) browsers .. and I'm trying to understand the self-authoring tooling landscape suitable for me.

My work will not contain mathematical formulae, nor would it contain code snippets. But I would like to include images, or generate diagrams (flow charts, event sequence diagrams etc.)

A quick Google shows me mkbook and mkdocs. Both of these take in markdown files and generate HTMLs. I plan to evaluate these.

Any other authoring frameworks worth considering?

What are my options in terms of self-publishing? Amazon still king? What other stage of self-authoring would I need tooling for?

Ah, must mention I primarily use Fedora but I'd like to sync the repo on my MBP as well, and would like to work seamlessly on both machines.

Any direction would be helpful. Ty.

68 points factorialboy 3 years ago 57 comments

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