What is this?

This is collection of free books in epub format, which I wanted to have on my reader, but can't find in appropriate format. Most of them converted from GNU texinfo.

How to convert book from texinfo to epub?

There is a good paper on epub and epub creation process [here:] (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/tutorials/x-epubtut/)

In short, to convert texinfo to epub you shold do the following:

• Convert texi file to docbook format, using makeinfo:

  makeinfo --docbook /path/to/your/file.texi -o file.docbook

• using any XSLT-processor and docbook.xsl for epub convert docbook to unpacked epub

  xsltproc /path/to/your/docbook-xsl/epub/docbook.xsl file.docbook

• create mimetype file

  echo "application/epub+zip" > mimetype

• pack mimefile to epub (mimetype MUST be first file in archive and it MUST NOT be compressed!):

  zip -0Xq my-book.epub mimetype

• pack the rest of content to the same file:

  zip -Xr9D my-book.epub META-INF OEBPS

If you are lucky my-book.epub will be valid epub file.