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Can you provide some pointers on the tech stack you use for producing these? Do you have something similar to https://github.com/standardebooks/tools ?

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My process is very simple. They are way more technical than me. I start off by entering everything into Word and get the text nicely formatted, then I work from that to create the PDF, epub, and Kindle versions.

The ebooks I put out have definitely improved since I began the site though.

My abilities only run as far as HTML and CSS - although I did just start learning programming recently (so I have a fallback career in my fast approaching old age!)

Since you're getting more tech oriented, I'd like to propose that you consider rehosting this on a site like Netlify or Cloudflare. They host static sites for free. You could use something like algolia for search. Poof, hosting costs go away completely.

I've heard of Netlify and Cloudfare, but only vaguely know what they are. I think this is about the third time I've said this in these posts but - I will look into this too! Thank you for the suggestions :)

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