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CodeVisio · 09-11-2016, 04:51 PM

@All

Thanks a lot. I think I've explained it bad but probably what I want to do
is conceptually wrong.

I saved locally a web page (an article I want to read later). As such I have the html file along with a folder containing the web page's css, images etc. If I load this locally web page from a web browser I can see the it more or less as the original. So far so good.

Instead of having all thousands of web pages saved here and there I thought I could store them inside the my Calibre's library.
So I added one of those web pages inside my calibre's library.
1) The first result I got with Calibre is a zip file inside my library folder under the author's name. At this point if I click on my web page inside the big list of Calibre what happens is that the default zip/unzip program is invoked and the zip file is opened inside it.
I don't want 1).

2) So I discovered the concept of plugins inside Calibre. I disabled then the one that converts that html to zip and looked at the result and added the the html to my library again. At this point if I click on webpage from the big list on Calibre the web page is shown through a Calibre's viewer. But unfortunately the web page is displayed wrong because all of images, css etc are not stored inside my library.
I don't want also 2).

My intention and expectation was that Calibre could store the html and its relative folder of css, images etc, directly inside my Calibre's library. So I could click on the that article from the big list on Calibre and have the web page displayed correctly inside my default web browser.

Is that possible?

let me know if it's not clear.

Thanks

09-11-2016, 04:51 PM	#6
CodeVisio Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2016 Device: none	@All Thanks a lot. I think I've explained it bad but probably what I want to do is conceptually wrong. I saved locally a web page (an article I want to read later). As such I have the html file along with a folder containing the web page's css, images etc. If I load this locally web page from a web browser I can see the it more or less as the original. So far so good. Instead of having all thousands of web pages saved here and there I thought I could store them inside the my Calibre's library. So I added one of those web pages inside my calibre's library. 1) The first result I got with Calibre is a zip file inside my library folder under the author's name. At this point if I click on my web page inside the big list of Calibre what happens is that the default zip/unzip program is invoked and the zip file is opened inside it. I don't want 1). 2) So I discovered the concept of plugins inside Calibre. I disabled then the one that converts that html to zip and looked at the result and added the the html to my library again. At this point if I click on webpage from the big list on Calibre the web page is shown through a Calibre's viewer. But unfortunately the web page is displayed wrong because all of images, css etc are not stored inside my library. I don't want also 2). My intention and expectation was that Calibre could store the html and its relative folder of css, images etc, directly inside my Calibre's library. So I could click on the that article from the big list on Calibre and have the web page displayed correctly inside my default web browser. Is that possible? let me know if it's not clear. Thanks