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JPD · 09-26-2010, 02:00 AM

I tried using Bookit to convert web pages to mobi, but ran into the same brick wall of an error message others noted. Then I tried instapaper, as Calbre has a recipe for 'read later' web pages, but it didn't preserve any of the web page formatting or images. So then tried just viewing the page source of the web page I wanted to convert, saved it as a file, added it as a book to my Calibre library, and did a mobi convert. It worked almost perfectly, preserved all the formatting, but the fatal flaw was it just had boxes with '?' icons where the images should be - it was not pulling the embedded images, e.g. '<img src="redliq.gif" width="251" height="110" /></p><pre>', where if you click on the gif link in the source it brings up the image, but it's not making it into the eBook.

If anyone has any suggestions it would be most welcome.

09-26-2010, 02:00 AM	#4
JPD Member Posts: 12 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: Kindle	no luck bookit or instapaper; html source worked, but no images I tried using Bookit to convert web pages to mobi, but ran into the same brick wall of an error message others noted. Then I tried instapaper, as Calbre has a recipe for 'read later' web pages, but it didn't preserve any of the web page formatting or images. So then tried just viewing the page source of the web page I wanted to convert, saved it as a file, added it as a book to my Calibre library, and did a mobi convert. It worked almost perfectly, preserved all the formatting, but the fatal flaw was it just had boxes with '?' icons where the images should be - it was not pulling the embedded images, e.g. '<img src="redliq.gif" width="251" height="110" /></p><pre>', where if you click on the gif link in the source it brings up the image, but it's not making it into the eBook. If anyone has any suggestions it would be most welcome.