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JPD · 09-25-2010, 07:20 PM

Let me apologize right up front for my lack of savvy in html, calibre, or programming of any sort. I've been creating eBooks from instructional web sites for my Kindle DX. The web sites are typically set up like book chapters; from the TOC you select a 'chapter', and you click 'next/back' to navigate within each chapter. I go page by page, and do a file/print/save as pdf. Then I open them with Acrobat Pro to customize the metadata. Then I send them to Amazon for conversion, but as they often have scientific notation, figures, etc., they don't convert well, so I end up USB synching and dragging the pdf file from my Mac to the Kindle. Then repeat for every page...

I just discovered Calibre, and thought I'd found salvation. While all the articles are focused on news feeds, I thought it should be simple enough to create a custom 'news source', and use each url of the web page I want as the 'feed'. Wrong. All I end up with are strings of html code. Am I trying to do something that can't be done, or is it not as simple as just entering a web page's URL into the 'feed' field? Any help would appreciated.

09-25-2010, 07:20 PM	#1
JPD Member Posts: 12 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: Kindle	recipe to pull web page similar to 'print/save as pdf' Let me apologize right up front for my lack of savvy in html, calibre, or programming of any sort. I've been creating eBooks from instructional web sites for my Kindle DX. The web sites are typically set up like book chapters; from the TOC you select a 'chapter', and you click 'next/back' to navigate within each chapter. I go page by page, and do a file/print/save as pdf. Then I open them with Acrobat Pro to customize the metadata. Then I send them to Amazon for conversion, but as they often have scientific notation, figures, etc., they don't convert well, so I end up USB synching and dragging the pdf file from my Mac to the Kindle. Then repeat for every page... I just discovered Calibre, and thought I'd found salvation. While all the articles are focused on news feeds, I thought it should be simple enough to create a custom 'news source', and use each url of the web page I want as the 'feed'. Wrong. All I end up with are strings of html code. Am I trying to do something that can't be done, or is it not as simple as just entering a web page's URL into the 'feed' field? Any help would appreciated.