10-09-2010, 09:05 PM | #1 |
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complete XKCD dump, packed for Kindle
Topic title speaks for itself. Just a couple of hours and some programming skill
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10-09-2010, 09:08 PM | #2 |
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Downloading, nice size file. Take long to load?
I've considered doing something like this myself! Take it you coded a crawler to crawl their RSS feed? |
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10-10-2010, 03:31 AM | #3 |
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ooh, thanks!
I was thinking about reading xkcd on my K3, but haven't been bothered to convert anything yet, lol |
10-11-2010, 03:20 PM | #4 |
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This is great. Thanks. Too bad you didn't include the ALT text.
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10-11-2010, 05:26 PM | #5 |
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10-11-2010, 07:18 PM | #6 |
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I haven't loaded this onto my Kindle yet, and am unlikely to do so for about a week as I'm away on business in the morning -- anyone care to let me know how it looks/performs on the device?
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10-11-2010, 09:41 PM | #7 |
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You are absolutely right! The early xkcd were not as dialog heavy as the later ones and I thought the bottom text was just the captions. This is now perfect. Now I just need to figure out how to do the same thing for other web comics. Any suggestions on what program to use to download a web comic's entire collection?
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10-12-2010, 01:52 AM | #8 |
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10-15-2010, 06:32 AM | #9 |
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I've used a self-made python script. If anybody need it, I can develop it further to handle another comics.
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I peeked at the mobi format and saw strange things like limiting images to 63K and limited control over the size that the image is rendered. Any insight you can share would be great. |
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10-15-2010, 08:20 AM | #11 |
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Very cool. Thank you.
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10-15-2010, 09:19 AM | #12 |
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Thank you. I had actually started re-reading these earlier this week.
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10-15-2010, 02:48 PM | #14 |
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It's very good for the most part, however because xkcd isn't fixed in size, sometimes the rollover captions appear on a page by themselves. Also, some (again because of its size or orientation) are just plain hard to read, without the ability to zoom into the pics.
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You can sometimes zoom an images a bit by clicking on it with joystick.
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