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Old 10-17-2011, 09:25 AM   #2
Starson17
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Originally Posted by jacek.poplawski View Post
If I understand correctly calibre recipes are for RSS feeds, not static websites.
No, the recipe system can handle both. The recipe can build a virtual RSS feed page from one or more web pages, then it processes that as though it was an RSS feed.
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But is there a way to convert static website into book in .mobi format?
Yes, although if the site is truly static, a recipe is probably not the best approach. Just grabbing the site with wget and saving it would be best.
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For instance, there is a polish magazine archive here: http://archiwum.wiz.pl/spis_tematow.asp, is there a way to generate .mobi from it?

There are many websites like that, with previous issues, old articles, or just stories. It would be awesome to generate ebook from them and read them on kindle instead monitor, but I wasn't able to find out how to do it.

I can use wget and curl to download tree of html files, that's not the problem. But how to convert such tree into ebook? I assume calibre recipes do something like that. Do you have any tips or ready solutions?
If you have the html, just drag the index.html into Calibre and it will be saved as an html (inside a zip). Calibre will follow all local relative links to build the entire ebook. Then convert to mobi

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