Super small, sample ebooks that are representative samples of book formats (and content).
Pre-built files ready for download available from https://github.com/clach04/sample_reading_media/releases/
Test sample ebooks, etc. Formats:
- test_book.md
- test_book_md.md
- test_book_txt.txt
- test_book_txt_crlf_win.txt
- test_book_txt_lf_unix.txt
- test_book_html.html
- test_book_odt.odt
- test_book_docx.docx
- test_book_pdf.pdf
- test_book_fb2.fb2
- test_book_epub.epub
- test_book_md_zip.zip
- test_book_txt_zip.zip
- test_book_html_zip.zip
- test_book_fb2_zip.zip
- test_book_rtf.rtf
- test_book_rtf_zip.zip
All the above sample books are generated from test_book.md.
- source_test_book_fb2.fb2
- source_test_book_fb2_zip.fbz
- source_test_book_fb2_dot_zip.fb2.zip
- test_book_epub_more_detail.epub
- test_book_pdf_more_detail.pdf
LGPL license, so feel free to use in/with your projects. If you modify them, share your changes.
Test sample comics, Formats:
- bobby_make_believe_sample.cb7
- bobby_make_believe_sample.cbt
- bobby_make_believe_sample.cbz
- bobby_make_believe_sample.cbr
- bobby_make_believe_sample_dir.cb7
- bobby_make_believe_sample_dir.cbt
- bobby_make_believe_sample_dir.cbz
Images in comics typically in root directory of archive (see bobby_make_believe_sample). bobby_make_believe_sample_dir sample have images in a sub-directory.
For other Comic book samples, see Comics.
bobby_make_believe images are in the Public Domain and are the first 4 four pages of "Bobby Make-Believe (1915)" from https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=26481 - 4 pages to reduce file size whilst being realistic content.
See:
# Assuming Debian based
sudo apt install pandoc
sudo apt install wkhtmltopdf # for pdf support
sudo apt install xvfb # *might* be needed for wkhtmltopdf
sudo apt install wget # for extra cbz comic
sudo apt install p7zip-full # for cb7 comic (also default for zip and CBZ)
sudo apt install zip # optional, can be used instead of 7z
sudo apt install rar # for cbr comic
Alternative/minimal build:
env SKIP_COMICS=true env SKIP_PDF=true env SKIP_PANDOC_EOL=true ./build.sh
Issue build:
./build.sh
If wkhtmltopdf needs a display (not an issue under Microsoft Windows builds of Pandoc) can either try and use a diffrent PDF engine for pandoc or use Xvfb, for example:
Xvfb :1 &
env DISPLAY=:1 ./build.sh
# killall Xvfb
Sample Windows build with 7-zip and MSYS2
path %PATH%;C:\msys32_32bit\usr\bin\
path %PATH%;C:\Program Files\7-Zip\
C:\msys32_32bit\usr\bin\bash.exe build.sh SKIP_COMICS
C:\msys32_32bit\usr\bin\bash.exe
env SKIP_COMICS=true sh build.sh
- https://github.com/koreader/test-data
- ebook (epub, mobi and azw3 formats) https://github.com/regueiro/spring-reference-ebook
- https://github.com/DistriNet/evil-epubs
- Bobby Make-Believe (1915)
- Comics (images) https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?cid=74
- https://www.contrapositivediary.com/?p=1197
- Images https://github.com/recurser/exif-orientation-examples
- Images https://sourceforge.net/p/exiftool/code/ci/master/tree/t/images/
- add images (e.g. to html, embedded and linked, epub, new md file with images etc.) SpaceX images supposed to be PD https://www.flickr.com/photos/spacex/ (see https://99designs.com/blog/resources/public-domain-image-resources/)
- fb2 with title page/images
- TOC for epub
pandoc -o OUTPUTNAME.epub INPUTNAME.md --toc --toc-depth=2 --epub-cover-image=COVERIMAGE.png - regular epub (done)
- epub - stored (no-compression)
- epub - maximum compression
- hand crafted html (e.g. include metadata)
- mobi
- prc/pdb? - https://github.com/clach04/pyrite-publisher
- azw
- azw3
- add comics
- with PNG images (done)
- 24-bit, 8-bit grayscale, indexed (e.g. 4 colors), and a transparency test
- epub with images only
- No compression (done)
- with multiple sub-directories
- metadata for formats that support it
- mobi
- azw/azw3
- Comic metadata; zip comment or a ComicInfo.xml - see
- Names of ZIP files suitable for KoReader - depending on discoveries in koreader/koreader#9986 (done)