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 # Template
 
-_Update: Feb 23 transferred files from [Risk and Reliability Book](https://gitlab.tudelft.nl/interactivetextbooks-citg/risk-and-reliability/) to set things up._
+This is the template book. You can fork this to create a book in as easy-as-possible a way. Focus is mostly on providing a clean and simply view to the key setup of our book repo.
 
-This will be the future home of the template book. Design philosophy:
-- people will fork this to create a book in as easy-as-possible a way
-- minimal changes should be made to the book contents itself, to prevent downstream merge conflicts
-- focus is mostly on providing a clean and simply view to the key features in our book repo (e.g., config files, scripts, markup flags, etc)
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+Minimal changes should be made to the template book contents itself, to prevent downstream merge conflicts. 
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