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Congratulations on getting something out there! I'm not an author myself, but the first thing I am curious about is concrete examples of ready-made books; especially if one of the supposed selling points is the beautiful result. Just how beautiful will it be?

I would also consider reading through the main copy and fixing any inconsistencies with spelling, capitalization, and wording ("the occasional fraud"?).

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Thanks for the kind words :). Beauty can be subjective, but here is something we’re striving for https://moot-books.github.io/moot-KTU/CSE/S6/CN_CS306.pdf. Initially we would typeset the books using vanilla LaTeX which produces the standard quality books you expect from traditionally publishers. In the long run the goal is to produce books that look similar to this https://ctan.math.washington.edu/tex-archive/macros/latex/co... , but optimized for readability for different book types.

English is not my first language, but its still no excuse, I had run it through Grammarly, will check again for mistakes.

Those look great! And thanks for introducing me to the Tufte-book style, I’ve always really appreciated The Visual Display of Quantitative Information and this style seems like a good one to shoot for.

Platform looks cool.

I created a course platform Primerlabs (https://primerlabs.io), where learners can generate Personalized Notebooks at the completion of the course. I used the Tufte-Latex template for that purpose. You can checkout my Personalized Python-I course book here: https://book.primerlabs.io/P2i3yuzb8

The goal is that, at the end of the course, people can actually buy their personalized at hands, with the click of a button.

I use Latex on AWS Lambda to compile LaTeX. If you need in compiling LaTeX, feel free to reach out to me. Email is in the profile.

Thanks, the platform and the output looks dope. I haven't gotten to the LaTeX part yet, will ping you once I run into issues.

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