Welcome to BookCove

This site exists to develop and provide software tools for book production and digital publishing. There are two guiding principles for books produced by the code on this site: (1) all books are "born as Git," meaning their sole source of truth is a public GitHub repository, as (2) all formats of all books are generated from a single XML source file. The XML is a proper subset of TEI.

The site is organized based on activities: in the Library users can find books that have been produced using the tools available here. In the Factory, users can see how the site’s tools can be used to produce more texts working from the original scans. Books can be produced for this site or for related sites. Some tools are available for use online. Some software tools are downloadable.

News from the Library

EPUB format available.

18-Dec-2025: Bookcove now generates EPUBs in addition to HTML and text formats for all books in the collection. Each book is tested to include valid EPUBs at Level 3.2 using the W3C validator.

News from the Factory

No news available at this time.