What is ebook-treasure-chest?

This repository is a curated collection of ebook download links, primarily for Chinese-language books. It gathers links from multiple major Chinese reading platforms, including apps like WeChat Read, JD Reading, and Himalaya, and organizes them by category. The stated goal is to make it easier to find and download books across a wide range of subjects. The collection covers a broad range of genres and topics. Literature, history, popular science, management, philosophy, biography, mystery, finance, and psychology are among the largest categories. Books are also grouped by region (American, British, French literature), period (Republic-era China, Ming dynasty), and specialty areas like investing, programming, cooking, and fitness. Each entry links to downloadable files in epub, mobi, and azw3 formats, which are the common formats for e-readers and reading apps. Discovery works through a GitHub Pages web interface at jbiaojerry.github.io/ebook-treasure-chest, which provides a real-time search field supporting multiple keywords. You can also use standard browser search (Ctrl+F) on the main README page, or navigate directly to category pages for things like literature (over 2,700 books) or history (over 1,700 books). The Python in this repository is likely used for the scripts that generate the index pages and the searchable GitHub Pages site, rather than being a software library you install and run. The actual content is the organized list of links and the generated markdown files per category. The project is maintained by community contribution and accepts pull requests. A donation option is provided for those who find the collection useful.