I wrote a couple of books in asciidoc. MD might work for a web comment but if you want to write something sophisticated like a book you need more. E.g.
TIP: my tip
Super helpful when you're writing a book. My blog provider uses MD and I no longer have these handy popups or cool sidebars. I won't even get into tables etc.
Include is a bit problematic but having a way to have 1 chapter = 1 file is wonderful. You can then package the whole book with a file that lists the includes. Very convenient.
I've written a ~300 page book in MD using book-template [1], and I must say, it was a wonderful experience. I did 1 chapter = 1 file. It had tables, images, etc with a nice TOC along with references and appendix. All the basics for writing a book work just fine with md, I'd say. Here is the output (in pdf, epub, html) for you to judge [2]
TIP: my tip
Super helpful when you're writing a book. My blog provider uses MD and I no longer have these handy popups or cool sidebars. I won't even get into tables etc.
Include is a bit problematic but having a way to have 1 chapter = 1 file is wonderful. You can then package the whole book with a file that lists the includes. Very convenient.