# 100-page-book

- Page: https://shared.btbytes.com/p/100-page-book
- Date: 2023-06-03
- Tags: publishing

There is a niche for "small"ish books of about 100 pages that can be useful for

- survey books
  - "what is there to know about X"
  - "what's new in X since Y event/version/year"
- deep dive into a niche topic
  - "asyncio in python and how it is used in web applications"
  - "asyncio in python and how it can be used in non-web settings"

These small books should also be formatted for easy consumption over phone/tablet screen.

**Why would this be a book vs a blog post?**

There are many blog posts that have lives longer than published books, papers and manuscripts. I think thinking of a book forces a certain structure on the author and the content. Secondly, even a self-published book (a downloadable PDF) obtains the sheen a "product" vs writing, which some might desire.

Some exampled I can think of in this genre:

-  [The little book of deep learning](https://fleuret.org/public/lbdl.pdf) [pdf] by François Fleuret -  professor of computer science at the University of Geneva, Switzerland; Apr 2023. This is actually 156 pages including a full index, bibliography etc... formatted for reading on a phone screen. `git clone https://fleuret.org/git/littlebook`
- [Hundred-Page Machine Learning book by Andriy Burkov ](https://leanpub.com/theMLbook) on LeanPub.
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