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I spent almost 2 years writing a book for O'Reilly. I get a percentage of book sales, and royalties on views in the Learning platform. This project is, very literally, stealing from me.

Please, just buy the book. I -- and many other authors -- worked very hard on them.




> This project is, very literally, stealing from me.

That is, literally, not true. I have always had a safari subscription through my employers, but found the app to be unpleasant to use. Using this project to generate epub is not much different than me printing the pages through browser as pdf, or saving the HTML page to read offline.

It would be stealing if I distributed the generated epub, but then that's not really the author of the tool stealing from you.


Is it not a subscription?




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