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Old 06-07-2010, 09:26 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by RedRoverJ View Post
The issue with the Canada article must have something to do with the way Instapaper creates the ePub. If I click the "text" box on Instapaper the link works properly but if I create an ePub I only get the link to the article as you found. Interesting.
I found the same thing.

I think it must be the nature of how Instapaper extracts content from web pages. It seems to try and grab only the content of an article, and ditch the rest. For example when converting a blog I've notied it ditches all of the comments and sidebar content.

I guess certain Wikipedia articles trip Instapaper up, and it can't find anything on the page that it considers to be the "main content"?

I see this as the big drawback of Instapaper - it should have an option to convert the entire web page, ignoring Instapaper's inbuilt content extraction algorithm.
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