Hey folks...
For those of you looking for a daily devotional, are you Windows, OS X, or Linux/BSD?
I've got a script that uses wget/htmldoc to download and generate PDFs from The Upper Room (print devo page:
http://www.upperroom.org/Devotional/...ate=10/31/2006, pretty page:
http://www.upperroom.org/Devotional/) and Year of The Bible (
http://yob.gospelcom.net/reading.php). I've attached samples. I want to add others, but 4 kids (one ~8mos) kinda cramps the development schedule. I also want to add auto-grabbing of the Bible verses in the Upper Room one, but I still keep my 'ol hardcover Bible with me, so it's just laziness @ this point.
I run the script in the morning to generate the current day's files, then copy to SD. (BTW: While the Reader doesn't do hierarchical navigation, I find having directories for "Books", "RSS", and "Devotionals" on the SD card helps *me* keep organized *:^)
I wouldn't mind hosting daily versions of these files for download, but I need to look at bandwidth stats for my own site and talk to both those sites (and any others I might want to use) about the whole HTML->PDF & re-distribution thing.
That's where the platform question comes in. Right now, I run the script on OS X and it pop's-em out all nice & simple. That same script would also work without change (probably, I can test in a VM) on Linux/BSD. I could make an "app" for Windows (very bare or no GUI due to time) to do the same if there's interest. It would probably use the cygwin dll and local (to the app) copies of wget & htmldoc.
Lemme know if anyone's interested and if there are more devotional sites you'd like to see added. I'm going for the simple, daily pages rather than covert entire ones from Gutenberg or
www.ccel.org so that I can stay focused on that particular day and not have to worry about bookmarking/etc.
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