MD to EPUB - Convert ebook online
Conversion Results:
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How to convert MD to EPUB:
1. Click the "Choose Files" button to select multiple files from your local device, or click the "URL" button to choose an online file.
2. Set the ebook conversion options, including base font size, embedded fonts, page margins, metadata, and whether to remove the first image (particularly useful if the input document contains a cover image that is not identified as a cover). Choose a target ebook format. The target ebook format can be AZW3, EPUB, DOCX, FB2, HTML, OEB, LIT, LRF, MOBI, PDF, RTF, SNB, TCR, TXT, etc.
3. Click the "Convert Now!" button to start batch conversion. The output files will be listed in the "Conversion Results" section. Click the icon to show the file QR code or save the file to cloud storage services such as Google Drive, OneDrive, or Dropbox.
MD vs EPUB:
| Name | MD | EPUB |
| Full name | Markdown | Electronic Publication |
| File extension | .md, .markdown | .epub |
| MIME | text/markdown | application/epub+zip |
| Developed by | John Gruber | International Digital Publishing Forum |
| Type of format | Markup language | Ebook file format |
| Introduction | Markdown is a lightweight markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor. John Gruber and Aaron Swartz created Markdown in 2004 as a markup language that is appealing to human readers in its source code form. Markdown is widely used in blogging, instant messaging, online forums, collaborative software, documentation pages, and readme files. | EPUB is an e-book file format with the extension .epub that can be downloaded and read on devices like smartphones, tablets, computers, or e-readers. It is a free and open standard published by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). The term is short for electronic publication and is sometimes styled ePub. |
| Technical details | Markdown has been characterised by an informal specification and a reference implementation for conversion to HTML. Over time, many Markdown implementations have appeared. People developed these mostly driven by the need for additional features on top of the base syntax-such as tables, footnotes, definition lists (technically HTML description lists), and Markdown inside HTML blocks. | EPUB is the most widely supported vendor-independent XML-based (as opposed to PDF) e-book format. An EPUB file is a ZIP archive that contains, in effect, a website-including HTML files, images, CSS style sheets, and other assets. It also contains metadata. EPUB 3 is the latest version. By using HTML5, publications can contain video, audio, and interactivity, just like websites in web browsers. |
| Associated programs | Notepad, TextEdit, WordPad, UltraEdit | Adobe InDesign, calibre, LaTeX, Genebook, epubcheck. |
| Sample file | sample.md | sample.epub |
| Wikipedia | MD on Wikipedia | EPUB on Wikipedia |