andrewheekin

Given the rise of Markdown for personal notes and technical documentation, I'm wondering why more books aren't offered for download in Markdown format. Personally, I would pay a premium to be able to download a book or textbook as Markdown that I could then easily add to an Obsidian vault or other text-based note software.

I could see one reason being that it would make them harder to protect with digital copyright protection, but plenty of textbooks or books are already offered as PDF (protected or non-protected). A similar copyright protection could be added to a text file such as Markdown. Another reason could be that a 10+ mb Markdown file feels unwieldy, but it would be easy to lower the filesize by separating the book into a multiple .md files by chapter. For example, I recently bought a 300-page PDF Kaplan textbook for a financial exam I'm studying to take. I would have much rather purchased a set of Markdown files that I could easily add to note taking software. Is the overall demand for this format too low to justify the support?

Does a talent marketplace exist to hire engineers for one-off small dev tasks or script writing?

Think projects along the lines of... - "write a node script the connect to the Google Calendar API and return all meetings next week as a CSV" - "make a jupyter notebook to return the standard deviation of a column in a csv" - "write a script to connect to the Spotify API and save all followed artists to a plain text file"

In other words, a marketplace for things most engineers could do given the time but just want delivered faster without having to tinker at it. I know a large part of the delivery on Upwork is the follow through and iterative designs, but this would be more along the lines of one-and-done delivery.

Ex, an event, perk, daily/weekly routine that adds most to an enjoyable culture overall

What accounting software, if any, does your startup use? Wondering what software people find most useful for managing finances/tax/payroll at a small LLC or C-corp