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    Book on Productivity

Introduction

Many a times, I get this question, "Tanay! How are you able to do so many things?". I wish I had a straight answer but I don't have one.
I do a lot many things which constitute my habits, my routines, my way of thinking about money, people and time. So, I thought if people are finding it amazing that a regular guy is doing a lot after his job then I must write it down.
And thus came the idea of writing a free e-book.
Process

I am a programmer. I want to write the book in an agile process. Which means it needs to be source controlled as well. Here's what I am thinking will be the idea book publishing process:
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            Write manuscript in markdown
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                  Push to GitHub
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                Some jobs run and 
                the book gets updated
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Help needed in research


A nice website theme which is easy to read as a book format (preferably free theme).
Ways to change markdown to epub. So that book can be downloaded from the website
Is there a way where I can put an ebook reader in my website?
Some of the best online books which you know so that I can draw some inspiration. To give you an idea, I am looking at something like this: https://eloquentjavascript.net/

How to help?

I would appreciate if you put your ideas in comments. I would love anything which you have.
If you can and want to help me in proof-reading this book or want to get involved with the process please leave a comment in how you want to help. Currently, I am looking for few volunteers:

Website developer and CI process setup
Proof-reading
Visual and art making for the diagrams and pictures in book

Let me know if I am missing something out. I can use all the help I can get with this.
Thanks for all your help in advance.

Edit #1 Sun 17 Nov

After I sent this out to folks, a friend on whatsapp told me about this https://github.com/hasura/gatsby-gitbook-starter
This is pretty great tool and is close to what I was looking for. If you find something like this, let me know. Also, sharing it in case you want to use it. :)