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converting whole website to kindle-compatible ebook
kunkel321:
There's a tool called iSilo. (no relation to Apple) http://isilo.com/ I first started using it back in my Palm Pilot days. I never use it anymore, simply because I'm always near wifi, so I just view the live sites rather than downloading them. There's an Android version that works on my Kindle Fire HD 7. It's expensive though... $30 US as I recall. And the formatting is not all that great. Still though... It works. There's a free component called iSiloX that parses the pages/site. Then you send it to your device and read it with iSilo. As I recall, iSilo can be used in "free mode." Links are disabled in free mode, but at least you can see how the formatting is. Tips: There's a feature on iSiloX to limit parsing to only certain URLs. It allows wildcards. For example: https://www.donationcoder.com/* Use this and only use a link-depth of one, otherwise you'll end up downloading gigs of data.
HankFriedman:
Thank you both of you for your replies.
iSilo does not create ebooks for Kindle, which is my goal, and the other software that I tried either didn't succeed at the conversion (Calibre) or only converts one page at a time, not a website.
wraith808:
Thank you both of you for your replies.
iSilo does not create ebooks for Kindle, which is my goal, and the other software that I tried either didn't succeed at the conversion (Calibre) or only converts one page at a time, not a website.
-HankFriedman (June 28, 2016, 04:25 PM)
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There were several on the search for the title of your post, which is why I asked, and knowing why they fall down might point to another solution.
https://dotepub.com/
http://lifehacker.com/5870376/dotepub-converts-websites-to-ebooks
- this creates epub, but you can use calibre to convert to .mobi
http://ebookconverter.blogspot.com/2013/11/its-more-complicated-issue-how-to.html
http://readlists.com/
- its a bit more manual, in that it doesn't crawl the site for you. But the end results seem ok.
http://ebooks.stackexchange.com/questions/2/how-can-i-convert-an-html-site-into-an-ebook
- I've used send to kindle before, and it works well. But I haven't tried this manner.
Target:
how many pages are there in the site in question? seems like there are quite a few options that don't crawl, but will do a single pages so maybe consolidating the pages might be an option (this also gives you the option to edit out any cruft!)
HankFriedman:
I have created a tutorial website with about 150 articles, so a page at a time just won't work
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