Epub has the potential of surpassing doc files as a document exchange format. It's so much easier to read an ePub than a pdf or a doc file on a phone.
Show HN: A Web Extension to save a page or selection as eBook
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#12Ooooh, now this is interesting!
Presumably it clips just the article and not all the textual content on a page?
I've long had an idea for an ePub app that will take email newsletters and compile them into something like a weekly ePub. I'm not a dev, though. I don't suppose there's any scope for this plugin to eventually work with non-browser content, is there?
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#13This looks nice for a one off.
If you are interested in automating this on a regular basis (perhaps to read the morning's news / blogs) I recommend Calibre, it is an amazing free (speech & beer) ebook management system that has this baked in.
Here is the relevant manual section: https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/news.html
[Edit: formating and removed parenthetical within parenthetical]
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#14Anything that can work as well as Clearly. It's the best I've found at clipping articles for off-line archiving but it still makes me nervous having them on Evernote's platform when they said they were going to shut Clearly down (but apparently had a change of heart, for now).
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#15Really nice! This is a lot more convenient than opening a Print dialog and choosing to save as PDF, which doesn't always work like you want it to. I haven't used ePub format yet, but it seems to be a format gaining traction in the eBook world.
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#16Amazon offers this extension for Chrome and Firefox. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/send-to-kindle-for...
This is what I'm currently using for taking my long-reads to my Kindle. Except it doesn't always work well. For eg, with the recent NYTimes article on the Arab world[0], it didn't give me the entire content. As a hack, I found that selecting all of the content and then using that as input worked, but I'm still losing out on all the images and some formatting.
[0]: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/11/magazine/isis-...
Re: Show HN: A Web Extension to save a page or selection as eBook
#17Amazon offers this extension for Chrome and Firefox. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/send-to-kindle-for...
This is what I'm currently using for taking my long-reads to my Kindle. Except it doesn't always work well. For eg, with the recent NYTimes article on the Arab world[0], it didn't give me the entire content. As a hack, I found that selecting all of the content and then using that as input worked, but I'm still losing out on all the images and some formatting. [0]: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/11/magazin…
Have you tried adding to pocket and then using something like https://p2k.co/ or https://help.getpocket.com/article/911-how-to-configure-cali... to sync to Kindle?
Re: Show HN: A Web Extension to save a page or selection as eBook
#18cool!
Luckily my kobo ebook reader has pocket integration though :)
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#19I read a lot of "serial archive"-formatted things (webcomics, online novels, etc.) I've always wanted an extension like this that will spider rel="next" and rel="previous" links/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.
I've written scrapers to do exactly that for a few works, but they'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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#20I read a lot of "serial archive"-formatted things (webcomics, online novels, etc.) I've always wanted an extension like this that will spider rel="next" and rel="previous" links/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 i…
Have you seen Dosage? It supports a lot of webcomics, but I don't remember how general it was. (Edit: I missed that you finished by publishing the content as an epub)