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title: The Digital Bindery
osem_url: https://osem.seagl.org/conferences/seagl2023/program/proposals/955
beginning: '2023-11-04T13:50:00.000-07:00'
end: '2023-11-04T14:40:00.000-07:00'
resources:
  internet_archive_identifier: SeaGL2023-The_Digital_Bindery
presenters:
- name: Brian Raiter
  pronouns: he/him
  osem_url: https://osem.seagl.org/users/46
  gravatar_id: 21b92bcebd1324d0615b97c993469643
  biography: Brian Raiter is a professional software engineer, and a long-standing
    recreational programmer.
---

Publishers are continuing to fight to take control over how digital books are used and shared. Fortunately for us, it remains entirely possible to ignore them entirely, and make ebooks by hand that are free for everyone to use. In this talk, I will introduce you to a few different routes for making ebooks, each one at a different level of complexity and control, but all of them free and open-source.
