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Old 06-11-2009, 05:04 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by Andybaby View Post
other people use calibre to convert.. I don't like it.
I'm definitely not as knowledgeable as Andybaby, but for simpler URL page contents, I've had the best results using a screen-scrape of the html, copy into Word, optionally raise font size, Save as HTML, read that it into Calibre, convert and change the meta-data.

I've tried saving as .rtf, and was disappointed, but I didn't try it enough to remember why.

I also tried BookIt, which is neat and painless on many occasions (an icon in Firefox, and boom, it works, scouring the site through the links to the levels you've specified, sorta like Plucker desktop if you've ever used that). But on other occasions, it didn't work so great, maybe I wasn't specifying recursion or levels well enough. E.g., a Python web tutorial was made into 6,000 pages with repetitive useless crap until page 4,700.
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