Thread: would like a recipe to pull down a free online book
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Old 10-07-2010, 12:06 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by Starson17 View Post
You can also look at some automatic website grabbers, such as wget, HTTrack and web2disk.
I'd second the recommendation for HTTrack. I just tried it (Windows GUI version) and loaded the root HTML file of the resultant website mirror into Calibre then converted it. It produced a 1.2 Mb ePub which looks quite useable. So don't bother with a Calibre recipe, use a website mirror tool.

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