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Oops... living the past. I meant Pocket, not Paper. On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 11:13 AM Tom Keays <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I used to try to convert articles to ePub so I could read them later, but > over time, I've reverted to using Instapaper for that > purpose. (Aside: Paper is perhaps a more robust alternative, although I > haven't made the switch yet myself. I noticed that Firefox seems to use > Paper for its in-browser reader.) In any case, Instapaper works well enough > with Code4Lib Journal articles. With Instapaper, if anything is garbled and > I still want to read it, I just go to the original and read it there > instead. I also use an IFTTT applet that reads RSS feeds and saves articles > automatically to Instapaper. That's pretty sweet. > > However, to actually answer your question, I came across a browser > extension called EpubPress -- https://epub.press/ -- that looks pretty > good. I opened up 6 articles from the current issue of Code4Lib Journal > and followed the EpubPress wizard to select all of them to convert to ePub. > It made a nice little booklet with a table of contents. Graphics and even > tables were handled pretty well. Code was a bit of a mess (long lines > wrapped awkwardly), but probably good enough. I guess if I cared enough, I > might try editing them in Sigil. > > Tom > > On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 3:34 PM Sylvain Machefert < > [log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Hello, >> summer is fast approaching and with it is coming time to catch up with >> C4L journals issues I have missed. I was looking for a way to get the >> latests issues as epub and so far I have not found an easy way to do it. >> >> I have found the discussions on code4lib wiki that date back to 2014 : >> https://wiki.code4lib.org/C4lMW14_-_Code4Lib_Journal_as_epub and the >> associated github repository >> https://github.com/jtgorman/c4l-journal-as-epub but the issue27.epub >> example is generating errors in Calibre. >> >> The ruby code at https://github.com/LouisStAmour/journal2epub seems to >> work better as the downloadable epubs at >> https://github.com/LouisStAmour/journal2epub/downloads work fine but >> they stop at issue 12, and as I am not really into ruby I have not >> been able to install it. But as the latest update is from 9 years ago, >> I am not sure it is a good idea to investigate into it. >> >> So to summarize : is anybody there reading C4L journal as epub? Would >> you please share your method to get properly formatted epub from an >> issue? >> >> Best regards, >> Sylvain >> >