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Awesome Books
A collection of awesome books (handwritten guides, auto-build almanacs w/ open data, etc.) in wikitext
Note: :book: stands for the online book page and :octocat: stands for the GitHub page.
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Book Examples
"Hand-Written" Book Examples
- PHP: The Right Way (:book: phptherightway.com, github: codeguy/php-the-right-way) by Josh Lockhart, Phil Sturgeon
- The Front-End Tooling Book (:book:, github: tooling/book-of-modern-frontend-tooling) by Addy Osmani et al
- Go Bootcamp (:book: golangbootcamp.com/book, github: github.com/GoBootcamp/book) by Matt Aimonetti
- Learn you an Agda (and Achieve Enlightenment) :book: - :octocat: by Liam O'Connor
- You Don't Know JS (Book Series) :octocat: by Kyle Simpson
Open Data Handbook
- Open Data Handbook, 1st Edition :book: - :octocat: by Rufus Pollock et al (Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN))
- Open Data Handbook, 2nd Edition :book: - :octocat: by Rufus Pollock et al (Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN)) - note: 1st edition in reStructedText, 2nd edtion in markdown
Pro Git
- Pro Git, 1st Edition :book: - :octocat: by Scott Chacon; 2009
- Pro Git, 1st Edition (GitBook Version) :book: - :octocat: - note: automatically generated by progit-to-gitbook script :octocat:; uses hashes for folder names
- Pro Git, 2nd Edition :book: - :octocat: by Scott Chacon, Ben Straub; 2014; note: 1st edition in markdown, 2nd edition in asciidoc
Open Data "Auto-Build" Book Examples
- The Free World Beer Book :book: - :octocat:, Templates :octocat: - work-in-progress; auto-build using the beer.db and markdown templates w/ a static site generator
- The Free World Football Almanac :book: - :octocat:, Templates :octocat: - work-in-progress; auto-build using the football.db and markdown templates w/ a static site generator
(World Literature) Classics
- The Trial (github: worldclassics/the-trial) by Franz Kafka
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (:book:, github: worldclassics/dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Book Projects
Project Gutenberg (PG)
- gutenberg.org - 40 000+ books in plain text (classics incl. William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Franz Kafka, and many more)
More
Wikpedia Book Projects
Wikisource
- wikisource.org - the free library that anyone can improve; 300 000+ texts in English
Wikibooks
- wikibooks.org - open textbooks (50 000+ pages in english) in wiki markup
Wikipedia
- Wikipedia Help: Books - turn wikipedia pages into books; help for creating books
- Wikipedia Help: Books/FAQ - frequently asked questions (and answers)
Meta
License
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