save-as-ebook
Productivity
web clipping
SHOW HN2016
106points
25comments
#346of 2,264 in 2016
Top 16%of 2016 by points
How HN took it
LovedMost comments that take a side are positive
7 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 10 comments about the project. Thread score +0.56.
Idea: 4 for, 0 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for clipping articles to read offline
From 2 comments
Really 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,…
kayla210 on HNOoooh, 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…
MistahKoala on HN
Objections
Commit messages are not descriptive
From 1 comment
Nice! I'll definitely keep an eye on it. I was just a bit disappointed when I went through the commit log, as it's not very descriptive. Here is a great article [1] on writing…
brunelli on HN
Requests
Sync saved ePubs to Dropbox or similar
From 3 comments
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.
erjjones on HNCouldn't you save the resulting epub to a dropbox folder ?
rakoo on HNInstall dropbox sync app and point the extension to a subfolder of the dropbox sync root folder. Ta-da.
unusximmortalis on HN
Support serial web archives like webcomics
From 1 comment
I 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"…
derefr on HN
Work with newsletter emails or non-browser content
From 1 comment
Ooooh, 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…
MistahKoala on HN
Questions
Does it extract only the article rather than all page text?
From 1 comment
Ooooh, 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…
MistahKoala on HN
What are the benefits of ePub over PDF?
From 1 comment
As someone who hasn't really used epub files, what's the benefit of it over PDF? I assume file sizes are smaller, but ... what else?
j_k_s on HN
Alternatives named
Send to Kindle extension
From 1 comment
Amazon offers this extension for Chrome and Firefox. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/send-to-kindle-for-google/cgdjpilhipecahhcilnafpblkieebhea?hl=en
antar on HN
Calibre
From 3 comments
For non-browser content it would be hard to beat Calibre for ebook creation. If you can get the content out of email and into the file system you could even script the Calibre…
kej on HNThis 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…
justjonathan on HNCalibre recipes can do this. You still need to specify the start page, xpath to get the chapters etc., but it works.
rahimnathwani on HN
Dosage
From 1 comment
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)…
lfowles on HN
dotepub
From 1 comment
https://dotepub.com/ does the same with a bookmarklet, although I don't think it's open source.
ikeboy on HN
Evernote Clearly
From 1 comment
Anything 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…
dbalbright on HN