man2book is a tool to create a custom book of installed man pages or a selection of manpage sections and pages.

book ebook epub generator man manpage pandoc

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man2ebook

A tool to convert all installed man pages to a simple ebook with contents in the head.

Maybe this could be only a small shell script but if not I will use Python.

Why man pages as ebook?

Because I want to read them comfortable on my ebook when traveling. Not more... ;)

https://pandoc.org/ - Haskell and then maybe make use of https://pypi.org/project/pandocfilters/, https://pypi.org/project/pypandoc/ or https://pypi.org/project/pandoc/. (very mature features for document conversion like direct manpage input and epub output, but I don't know much about pandoc, so I need to discover this.)
https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/ (man -Thtml df > df.html)
https://linux.die.net/man/1/man2html (is nice because it must not generate html, head and body)
https://pypi.org/project/epubmaker/ - Python (maybe nice but unmaintained)
https://docutils.sourceforge.io/ - Python (as I can see now it only converts from .rst files.)
https://github.com/hanez/aov-html2epub - Bash