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Show HN: A Web Extension to save a page or selection as eBook

106 pointsby eg312almost 9 years ago

13 comments

brunellialmost 9 years ago
Nice! I&#x27;ll definitely keep an eye on it.<p>I was just a bit disappointed when I went through the commit log, as it&#x27;s not very descriptive. Here is a great article [1] on writing good commit messages.<p>[1]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;alistapart.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;the-art-of-the-commit" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;alistapart.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;the-art-of-the-commit</a>
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erjjonesalmost 9 years ago
Next. Someone in the community wire this up to an API (dropbox, or something) so that when I save as ePub it also puts a copy in my dropbox so that I can read it on the road.
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antaralmost 9 years ago
Amazon offers this extension for Chrome and Firefox.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrome.google.com&#x2F;webstore&#x2F;detail&#x2F;send-to-kindle-for-google&#x2F;cgdjpilhipecahhcilnafpblkieebhea?hl=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrome.google.com&#x2F;webstore&#x2F;detail&#x2F;send-to-kindle-for...</a>
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derefralmost 9 years ago
I read a lot of &quot;serial archive&quot;-formatted things (webcomics, online novels, etc.) I&#x27;ve always wanted an extension like this that will spider rel=&quot;next&quot; and rel=&quot;previous&quot; links&#x2F;headers (or, not finding those, try to guess a pair of links on the page that represent those) to build up an archive sequence; chew that into a set of pages+sections; generate a Table of Contents for those; and then stick all that together into an ePub.<p>I&#x27;ve written scrapers to do exactly that for a few works, but they&#x27;re one-offs that get their metadata (e.g. chapter titles) from explicit provided data-structures rather than from the site itself. A fully-general solution to this would be amazing.
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MistahKoalaalmost 9 years ago
Ooooh, now this is interesting!<p>Presumably it clips just the article and not all the textual content on a page?<p>I&#x27;ve long had an idea for an ePub app that will take email newsletters and compile them into something like a weekly ePub. I&#x27;m not a dev, though. I don&#x27;t suppose there&#x27;s any scope for this plugin to eventually work with non-browser content, is there?
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ikeboyalmost 9 years ago
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dotepub.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dotepub.com&#x2F;</a> does the same with a bookmarklet, although I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s open source.
justjonathanalmost 9 years ago
This looks nice for a one off.<p>If you are interested in automating this on a regular basis (perhaps to read the morning&#x27;s news &#x2F; blogs) I recommend Calibre, it is an amazing free (speech &amp; beer) ebook management system that has this baked in.<p>Here is the relevant manual section: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;manual.calibre-ebook.com&#x2F;news.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;manual.calibre-ebook.com&#x2F;news.html</a><p>[Edit: formating and removed parenthetical within parenthetical]
pseingatlalmost 9 years ago
Epub has the potential of surpassing doc files as a document exchange format. It&#x27;s so much easier to read an ePub than a pdf or a doc file on a phone.
jflowers45almost 9 years ago
Nice. Also cool that Google Docs now lets you save as ePub<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;venturebeat.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;03&#x2F;08&#x2F;google-docs-now-lets-you-export-files-in-epub-ebook-format&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;venturebeat.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;03&#x2F;08&#x2F;google-docs-now-lets-you-e...</a>
dbalbrightalmost 9 years ago
Anything that can work as well as Clearly. It&#x27;s the best I&#x27;ve found at clipping articles for off-line archiving but it still makes me nervous having them on Evernote&#x27;s platform when they said they were going to shut Clearly down (but apparently had a change of heart, for now).
kayla210almost 9 years ago
Really nice! This is a lot more convenient than opening a Print dialog and choosing to save as PDF, which doesn&#x27;t always work like you want it to. I haven&#x27;t used ePub format yet, but it seems to be a format gaining traction in the eBook world.
j_k_sover 8 years ago
As someone who hasn&#x27;t really used epub files, what&#x27;s the benefit of it over PDF? I assume file sizes are smaller, but ... what else?
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anotheryoualmost 9 years ago
cool!<p>Luckily my kobo ebook reader has pocket integration though :)