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Maker
Hello Product Hunt! Founder of Reedsy here, happy to respond to any question you might have about the Reedsy Book Editor. You can also read more about how we built it here: You can see a sample of a formatted book here:
Looks fantastic! Two questions for ya -> 1. Is there any way to import content from an RSS feed? 2. Is there a read-time feature? I like to know how long a chapter would take average readers, so that I can balance the book out into manageable chunks.
Maker
Hello Michael, 1- We plan to add import from most traditional text files (doc, rtf, etc.) but not from an RSS feed at the moment (first time we see demand for it). We'll have a think though, an RSS feed is pretty straightforward to import! 2- Statistics/analytics about the book is planned. So a lot of more than read-time is coming :).
love the idea for an RSS feed import.
Maker
Ok… seems like I *really* have to work on it :)
homepage looks great. I haven't signed up for a trial, but I have a few questions: 1. Is it possible to insert images inline? I write mostly technical books with lots of screenshots. 2. What does code formatting look like? (as in, can I format text "as code") 3. Why no MOBI export?
Hunter
I'm a big fan of Reedsy. The publishing industry continues to see disruption from various places, including Reedsy. Authors, of significant popularity, are coming from everywhere, and Reedsy provides a great platform for them to now write, design and publish their books. The book editor is one more step to helping authors get their content into the world. Disclosure: I'm an investor in Reedsy.
See u guys using the medium edit bar....well played my friends...well played 🤔
Maker
Hehe, thank you! It's the new standard!
yeah Medium really hit the nail on the head with it.
How does Reedsy compare to Scrivener? Which I know is wildly popular now for writing books 💻
Maker
Many things: 1- The Reedsy Book Editor is web-based with auto-backups 2- We control the formatting of the book from the very beginning to save a lot of time once the book is ready for publication. Scrivener is an interesting tool to work on the storyline but it's a real pain in the ass to get a good epub/PDF file for distribution from it. 3- Scrivener doesn't really work for book editing. Reedsy will soon add Google Docs-like features for live track-changes, commenting, etc.
Looks like a really well designed tool. Good work
Maker
Thanks Stuart!
Great. I'm looking for an editor to write the first book. Basically I see Reedy is great .
Maker
Once signed in, feel free to ask for recommendations via the Help! button :)
Front end looks awesome - super powerful.
Will be using on my next book!
Looks really good ! Wonder if there was a way to import content from blogs (WordPress/Medium) to publish a compilation of essays?
Maker
Hello Atin, you are actually the third person to ask us if we could add RSS feeds / blog integration so I think we'll look into it :)
Wow this is so cool! I word surrounded by a lot of writers and I always pity them when I take a glance at all the outdated tools they use for production (cough MS Word cough). I'll be sure to share this with all of them!
Maker
Thanks Jonathan!
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