Website to ereader?

alexdc · 10-19-2010, 10:49 PM

I have downloaded the entire web-book at the website: http://openbookproject.net/thinkcs/python/english2e/. I don't know too much about .html and the way it gets converted to different ereader formats, but is there a way to take this downloaded site and convert it to an ereader format, such as .epub, with Calibre or another program?

Ravensknight · 10-20-2010, 10:42 AM

your best bet is to install "Sigil" [there's a sub forum dedicated to it here at MR] and then just copy and paste each html section into one "epub". That is what I'd do anyway...

Nexutix · 10-20-2010, 12:07 PM

This is what you want: Instapaper!

Go to website,

1. Create account (easy, username and password, nothing else, even password is optional)
2. Follow the site's instructions to add the bookmarklet to your favourites bar.
3. Whenever you visit the site, whose page you want to save as chapter of a file, click on that bookmarklet.
4. Do it for all chapters in sequence
5. Go to instapaper account. Click on either Download to kindle/ download to ePub reader. The file will be either *.mobi or *.epub file.
6. Transfewr file to your reader. Even contents are added.

alexdc · 10-20-2010, 06:06 PM

I actually ended up figuring this out just by playing around a bit. Doing as follows you get a perfectly formatted, completely indexed ebook with virtually no effort:

Download website (already completed in my case, but if someone else is interested) using wget

Locate contents of book within download, which should be contained in a sub-folder

Delete all cascading style sheets (.css files) and any sort of text files within the folder (and this is where I was getting my problems. There was a .txt file within the download, so when I tried to convert the html later on I kept getting an excerpt from "Alice in Wonderland", as Calibre was trying to convert the .txt instead of the html. Later on, Calibre tried to preserve the original formating of the site, rather than wrapping the text/images. This was because of the cascading style sheets).

Rename folder with book contents to "HTML".

Zip folder. Rename archive to "Whatever you want the book to be called".zip.

Use Calibre to convert to desired format.

Perfect output!

10-19-2010, 10:49 PM	#1
alexdc Member Posts: 12 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2010 Device: nook	Website to ereader? I have downloaded the entire web-book at the website: http://openbookproject.net/thinkcs/python/english2e/. I don't know too much about .html and the way it gets converted to different ereader formats, but is there a way to take this downloaded site and convert it to an ereader format, such as .epub, with Calibre or another program?

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10-20-2010, 10:42 AM	#2
Ravensknight Serpent Rider Posts: 1,123 Karma: 10219804 Join Date: Jun 2009 Device: Sony 350; Nook STR; Oasis	your best bet is to install "Sigil" [there's a sub forum dedicated to it here at MR] and then just copy and paste each html section into one "epub". That is what I'd do anyway...

10-20-2010, 12:07 PM	#3
Nexutix Reading and reading Posts: 582 Karma: 8250144 Join Date: Oct 2010 Device: Infibeam Pi, iPod Touch 4G, iPad Air 2, iPad mini 2, Oneplus One	This is what you want: Instapaper! Go to website, 1. Create account (easy, username and password, nothing else, even password is optional) 2. Follow the site's instructions to add the bookmarklet to your favourites bar. 3. Whenever you visit the site, whose page you want to save as chapter of a file, click on that bookmarklet. 4. Do it for all chapters in sequence 5. Go to instapaper account. Click on either Download to kindle/ download to ePub reader. The file will be either .mobi or .epub file. 6. Transfewr file to your reader. Even contents are added.

10-20-2010, 06:06 PM	#4
alexdc Member Posts: 12 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2010 Device: nook	I actually ended up figuring this out just by playing around a bit. Doing as follows you get a perfectly formatted, completely indexed ebook with virtually no effort: Download website (already completed in my case, but if someone else is interested) using wget Locate contents of book within download, which should be contained in a sub-folder Delete all cascading style sheets (.css files) and any sort of text files within the folder (and this is where I was getting my problems. There was a .txt file within the download, so when I tried to convert the html later on I kept getting an excerpt from "Alice in Wonderland", as Calibre was trying to convert the .txt instead of the html. Later on, Calibre tried to preserve the original formating of the site, rather than wrapping the text/images. This was because of the cascading style sheets). Rename folder with book contents to "HTML". Zip folder. Rename archive to "Whatever you want the book to be called".zip. Use Calibre to convert to desired format. Perfect output!

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