[SOLVED] archieve website into ebook?

Jacek Poplawski · 2011-10-15 14:11:34

(not sure is it correct forum, but I assume text is also multimedia)

Is there a way to archieve whole website into an offline document for reading on device like Kindle?
I know how to use wget, but wget gives you just a tree of html files. How to organize that into ebook?
Is there a tool for that?
I use calibre and I aware of its "fetch news" feature but don't know how to use it to take whole website.

example website I would like to read on Kindle: http://archiwum.wiz.pl/spis_tematow.asp

Wikipedia is also a good example but I am not sure how big it is now, I remember that there were CDs with offline versions years ago

PS. please don't say "just browse website with Kindle on WiFi", that's not what I am asking

Last edited by Jacek Poplawski (2011-10-18 12:17:22)

karol · 2011-10-15 14:18:42

What do you mean "rganize that into ebook"? You want to convert the html files into a pdf so you can either click on the links or browse e.g. alphabetically?

Jacek Poplawski · 2011-10-15 14:21:13

PDF is not the best format, but anyway.... News processed by calibre are organized this way that each page is separate section.
(install calibre from [community] then fetch some news and see them in mobi format). I just need way to fetch this way any website, maybe the solution is to read how calibre does it.

fschiff · 2011-10-16 00:24:48

I use print friendly as a bookmarklet in my web browser. Converts web page into a PDF file, allowing you to remove sections you don't want.

More of a quick & dirty solution then anything else.

Jacek Poplawski · 2011-10-16 01:26:24

I tried "print friendly" but it doesn't work (produces empty pdf every time) so I am searching for other solutions, probably something which will generate document from tree mirrored by wget/curl

Last edited by Jacek Poplawski (2011-10-16 01:28:18)

skottish · 2011-10-16 13:59:42

I've had some success in converting web pages to PDF with indexes using htmldoc, but it's far from perfect.

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Jacek Poplawski · 2011-10-16 16:14:24

I read how calibre does it, but it's for RSS feeds, not static websites: http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/news.html

Jacek Poplawski · 2011-10-18 12:17:07

OK calibre handles it, no need for other tools than wget:

http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showth … ?p=1792154

R00KIE · 2011-10-18 18:28:45

You could try httrack too https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=43508

Arch Linux

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