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Karen's right, EPUB content is basically XHTML/CSS/graphics, so converting from web->EPUB shouldn't be that difficult. The hardest part would be properly constructing the required manifest/metadata XML files. After you do all that, creating an EPUB archive is basically a matter of packaging all the files into a ZIP archive and changing the file extension. If you already have the HTML/CSS/images, a tool like Calibre (http://calibre- ebook.com/) should do a basic conversion. If you wanted to do a bit more customization, something like Sigil (http://code.google.com/p/sigil/) could also help simplify the task of gathering/organizing content, automatically creating required metadata/manifests, etc... I'm sure there are many other tools out there, those are just the two I've been playing with recently while preparing for an upcoming presentation on EPUB. I, for one, would welcome an EPUB version of the Code4Lib journal; I read Pragmatic Bookshelf (http://www.pragprog.com/magazines) and Hacker Monthly (http://hackermonthly.com/) every month in EPUB format (on an iPad), and really find the experience much more enjoyable/engaging than reading the same content in a browser on my desktop/laptop. Time permitting, I might be persuaded to put together a sample EPUB issue of the journal, if there was any interest... -Greg Williams West Linn Public Library [log in to unmask] On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 07:41:34 -0800, Karen Coyle <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Epub is essentially HTML at its root, which should make this easier. I >think that the Internet Archive may have done this -- they are >exporting books in ePub format. I'll forward this question to some >folks there (rather than putting their emails in a public list). > >kc