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> Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven effort to produce a collection of high quality, carefully formatted, accessible, open source, and free public domain ebooks that meet or exceed the quality of commercially produced ebooks.

I'm looking at doing that for calculus made easy by sylvanus Thompson but I need to overcome my lazyness first

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Someone else has done something similar for that work: https://www.sunclipse.org/?p=3194 -- you might find either that what he's done is good enough to satisfy you, or that you can build on what he did.

That's great! Their motivation & updates seem very sensible. Calculus Made Easy is a very nice compact book for university students who have started to forgot their high school training, and I will certainly point people in the direction of this project.

If you want the opposite of that: University students that come into college with strong calculus fundamentals, then I suggest "Calculus" by Michael Spivak.

I haven't used calculus in a decade, but I use things I learned from working through that book pretty much every day I write code.

That's a great news, thanks !

Standard Ebooks is a great resource. Consider supporting them https://standardebooks.org/donate

You can use Standard Ebooks tooling to create a white-label ebook skeleton if that would help you get started.

Ouch. Can't think of a more challenging one to work on. I can do most things epub now, but mathml is very much in the "no thanks now go away" category.

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