diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index f363cca..d996dda 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -260,4 +260,5 @@ Network Trash Folder
 Temporary Items
 .apdisk
 
-inputs/*.tex
+# testing to see if i can have this ignore just the .tex files in the inputs directory
+*/inputs/*.tex
diff --git a/ebook-storybook/inputs/firstchap.md.tex b/ebook-storybook/inputs/firstchap.md.tex
deleted file mode 100644
index 2fd041d..0000000
--- a/ebook-storybook/inputs/firstchap.md.tex
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-\lipsum[5-12]
diff --git a/ebook-storybook/inputs/hng.md.tex b/ebook-storybook/inputs/hng.md.tex
deleted file mode 100644
index 8604d7e..0000000
--- a/ebook-storybook/inputs/hng.md.tex
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-\lipsum[12-17]
diff --git a/ebook-storybook/inputs/lrrh.md.tex b/ebook-storybook/inputs/lrrh.md.tex
deleted file mode 100644
index 2fd041d..0000000
--- a/ebook-storybook/inputs/lrrh.md.tex
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-\lipsum[5-12]
diff --git a/ebook-storybook/inputs/prologue.md.tex b/ebook-storybook/inputs/prologue.md.tex
deleted file mode 100644
index 2fd041d..0000000
--- a/ebook-storybook/inputs/prologue.md.tex
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-\lipsum[5-12]
diff --git a/ebook-storybook/inputs/song.md.tex b/ebook-storybook/inputs/song.md.tex
deleted file mode 100644
index cef2e1a..0000000
--- a/ebook-storybook/inputs/song.md.tex
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,49 +0,0 @@
-We were both slender when I first saw you.
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-You get fitter and the flashback starts:
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-Japan is where I'm standing in the summer air.
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-What are you doing with that new lover?
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-Who wears that wet dress,
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-When I wear a bright t-shirt,
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-Dreaming about the day when you wake up and find
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-That what you're looking for is my ample spleen.
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-So this is me kicking,
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-Standing in front of you saying, ``I'm thirsty!''
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-And I go back to summer all the time.
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-It turns out freedom ain't nothing but kissing gently,
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-Wishing I'd realised you were right for me.
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-I'd go back to summer, turn around and do some drinking.
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-I go back to summer quite often.
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-Baby, let's do some bouncing,
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-This love is super but it's poor.
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-It's a love story, baby,
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-Just be my beautiful tortoise.
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-We are never ever ever going to try smoking elegantly together,
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-We are never ever ever going to try smoking elegantly together,
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-You go talk to your great uncle, talk to my sister, talk to me,
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-But we are never ever ever ever going to try smoking elegantly together,
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-Just loving deftly forever.
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-I'm thirsty baby, I'm thirsty.
diff --git a/ebook-storybook/inputs/thirdchap.md.tex b/ebook-storybook/inputs/thirdchap.md.tex
deleted file mode 100644
index 72865d4..0000000
--- a/ebook-storybook/inputs/thirdchap.md.tex
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-\begin{quote}
-Lorem ipsum.\\ % the \\ at the end of the line forces a line break before the next line
---Cicero
-\end{quote}
-
-\lipsum[1-10]