tea-Book: e-ink tea list

At home, I have a display with small jars of loose tea leaves. I wanted to have some way to quickly reference what was poured out, so I created this script to pull a list of teas from Notion. It generates files for an e-reader to display, which allows me to have an easy to update handheld menu to show guests when they visit.

Generate summary image

The summary image shows the 12 teas on the display (6 for the top shelf, 6 for the bottom shelf). Deno is used to generate an SVG file named tea.svg, which can then be converted to a PNG file named tea.png using Inkscape. You can either open Inkscape's UI and export the SVG manually, or use its CLI to export the SVG with one command.

deno run --allow-net=api.notion.com --allow-env --allow-read --allow-write .\src\generate.ts
inkscape --export-type="png" tea.svg

This image is used as an e-book cover. It can also be uploaded separately as a screensaver for the e-reader. For the Nook Simple Touch, I placed file in the following folder on the e-reader hard drive (E:):

E:\screensavers\Tea\tea.png

Generate details ebook

Descriptions of each tea are written to an e-book. The e-book includes a table of contents page formatted as a table with summarized tea information, followed by a chapter for each tea. Deno generates a Markdown file named tea-list.txt which is then converted by Pandoc into an ePub file named tea.epub. ePubs are just zip files with a bunch of HTML, so you can validate the content by making a copy with a .zip suffix instead of a .epub suffix.

deno run --allow-net=api.notion.com --allow-env --allow-read --allow-write .\src\generate.ts
pandoc tea-list.txt -o tea.epub --epub-title-page=false
cp tea.epub tea.zip

Validate result with https://epub-reader.online