Can Calibre convert a website article?

[flyash]

I'm wondering if Calibre can be used to convert long website articles so I can read them on my Sony 600 instead of online on an lcd. Some of these articles will be multiple pages long. Would I need to add each page separately into Calibre using the Add Books function?

Here's an example article:
http://www.thestreet.com/story/10226...recasting.html

Using Add Books, I input the above link, which creates a zip package in Calibre. But converting that to epub yields a bit of a mess, and it only includes the first page of the article.

Any tips appreciated!

[mrmikel]

www.httrack.com.

It will copy the contents of an entire web site. You can tell it where to go and where not.

It is important to take a look at where the various links go before you use it so you do not copy a lot of what you do not want or need.

Also do not attempt to make a large number of connections to speed things up since the web site might interpret it as a denial of service attack.

I have have used it many times to copy a website to my computer and then decide what graphics I want, simplify the layout, etc.

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by flyash

I'm wondering if Calibre can be used to convert long website articles so I can read them on my Sony 600 instead of online on an lcd. Some of these articles will be multiple pages long. Would I need to add each page separately into Calibre using the Add Books function?

Here's an example article:
http://www.thestreet.com/story/10226...recasting.html

I haven't used this but you could try the Read it Later App or Firefox extension and the Read it Later calibre recipe in the unknown area under fetch news.

[suecsi]

agree with dwanthy - Read it Later - or Instapaper also works well and you can export the results either as an EPUB for your Sony or Kindle format as well (so probably appeals to a good range of people).

[flyash]

Thanks for the suggestions. Instapaper seems to do a marginally better job than Read It Later, though neither seems to pick up the extra pages of a multi-page article.

But both are more elegant solutions than what I tried earlier.

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by flyash

Thanks for the suggestions. Instapaper seems to do a marginally better job than Read It Later, though neither seems to pick up the extra pages of a multi-page article.

But both are more elegant solutions than what I tried earlier.

Again I don't use these but most sites allow you to choose a print version of an article, maybe you can add the print version to readitlater or instapaper?

[flyash]

Originally Posted by dwanthny

Again I don't use these but most sites allow you to choose a print version of an article, maybe you can add the print version to readitlater or instapaper?

This particular site did not, but yeah, that's a good solution for most. I posted an inelegant workaround that gets the job done for the minority of sites that don't allow for a 'print' or 'single-page' view of an article: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=86497