Claude skill book-to-course builds an interactive course from PDF and EPUB

⚡ The essentials in 5 seconds - The book-to-course skill converts a book into an interactive course: step-by-step lessons, animations, quizzes, chapter tests, and flashcards. - It accepts five input formats: EPUB, PDF, HTML, DOCX, and Markdown; the project is available in the alves02753/book-to-course-skill repository on GitHub. - It is advertised as a skill for Claude — no other ways to run it are specified in the project description. ### 🔍 What we found The alves02753/book-to-course-skill project has been published on GitHub — a Claude skill that turns a book into a ready-made learning course for beginners. There are five input formats: EPUB, PDF, HTML, DOCX, and Markdown. The output is structured material formatted for self-paced learning. The course content is described as follows: step-by-step lessons, animations, quizzes, chapter tests, and flashcards. In other words, the skill handles not only breaking down the text but also packaging it into interactive elements for knowledge testing and review — a typical scenario for self-education with technical or educational literature. ### 💡 Why it matters The niche of converting books and documents into learning materials is growing fast, and open skills fill it without locking you into a single paid service: the repository can be forked, and the list of supported formats covers almost all common book and document formats. For a geek, it's a way to quickly turn a PDF or EPUB sitting on disk into a course with knowledge checks instead of just a plain text summary.

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