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Old 10-29-2013, 02:07 AM   #2
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Is there a way to save an entire website, links and all, and then convert it to an epub?
You would need a web crawler program to pull all the HTML files. This is the one that I use:

http://www.httrack.com/

While it is pulling all of the files for you, it also renames all of the internal links to point to their local equivalent.

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[...] to then send it to Calibre to convert. Is it even possible to do that? Without killing the links? (I'm referring to links that lead to other pages on the same website, not outside links).
... I haven't had good luck at all with feeding an entire site-rip through Calibre. I would recommend feeding the XHTML files into Sigil, and doing some Regex to fix up a few the links/do other cleanup.

Depending on the difficulty of the site itself, this can be easy/fast, or it can be time-consuming. As long as you aren't aiming for 100% EPUB compliant (epubcheck will probably complain about a lot of stuff), you should be ok.

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Any information or advice would be hugely appreciated, but I know nothing about code, CSS sheets, or anything like that, so please bear in mind my technical ineptitude.
Give a link to the Wiki. Perhaps someone here can be kind enough to help.
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