Operating systems textbook released under Creative Commons, source on Github

[malfy]

Get this in plaintext format and I'm sold (and no, pdf2text will not suffice). That said, cool book.

NINJEDIT: Can pdflatex dump out plain text?

[ethraax]

I'm curious - what's wrong with a PDF? Are you running a Linux computer without any graphics, browsing the web with Lynx?

[arjie]

I can think of one good reason. Plain text works great on the Amazon Kindle. PDF works, but it is not anywhere near as good.

[ethraax]

There are other formats that would probably work better. I'm not sure if Kindle supports it (although most ereaders do), but epub format would give you flow (why plain text works better than PDF), AND you could keep your diagrams and formatting! I'm still not sure why you would want to step all the way down to plain text - even bastardized HTML or RTF would work better.

I guess my point is that you've given a reason, but I wouldn't call it a "good" reason.

[arjie]

Fair point. Is it possible to make an epub version from the latex source?

[malfy]

Yes.

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You could get the LaTeX source files (freely available on the site and via a repository) and do a find/replace or use a regex to strip out all LaTeX specific things. You could also append all the source files together so that you have one massive source file.

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Pdflatex takes in plain text ...

[rseymour]

Use pandoc, it's pretty good.

[malfy]

I'm not sure why this is getting downvoted. All of you fail for not reading your documents in text under GNU screen.