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{"id":1549,"date":"2013-10-25T09:56:35","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T09:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wordpress\/?p=1549"},"modified":"2013-10-30T13:39:18","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T13:39:18","slug":"making-your-own-e-book-from-a-website-using-grabmybooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/?p=1549","title":{"rendered":"Making your own e-book from websites using Grabmybooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Added: 30th October 2013: The failure of the LaTeX rendering mentioned below is because I have been using the mark-up <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><code><span class='MathJax_Preview'><img src='https:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/latex\/cache\/tex_770a42e64e7e8228fd55b42717a60d13.gif' style='vertical-align: middle; border: none; padding-bottom:1px;' class='tex' alt=\"\" \/><\/span><script type='math\/tex'><\/script><\/code><\/span> instead of using the tags <code><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> &lt;math&gt; Latex code &lt;\/math&gt;<\/span> <\/code>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I came across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grabmybooks.com\/\">Grabmybooks<\/a>, a free Firefox plugin that enables the webuser to create ebooks from webpages.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vrFzkbuczTU\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe resulting output is a .epub file which should be useable on most e-readers (<a title=\"Ebook\" href=\"http:\/\/ebook.online-convert.com\/convert-to-mobi\">This can be converted to .mobi to use on a kindle<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>As an experiment I attempted to covert the<a href=\"http:\/\/statisticsforhumanities.net\"> statistics for humanities <\/a>website into an ebook. I was very impressed with the plugins rendering of text and tables. The images have not come out that well, but its main drawback from my point of view is that is doesn\u2019t seem to cope with the more complex math code very well, which limits its use \u2018out of the box\u2019 for my purposes. However for purely text conversion it is excellent.<\/p>\n<p>It is possible to edit the hard code whilst putting the e-book together. I haven\u2019t tried this out yet.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1554\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1554\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/epub.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1554\" alt=\"Conversion to text and tables works well\" src=\"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/epub-300x241.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/epub-300x241.png 300w, https:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/epub.png 1021w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1554\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Conversion to text and tables works well<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1556\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1556\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/epub2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1556\" alt=\"Varying success with images, but these have undergone numerous conversions and reformatting over the past few months.\" src=\"http:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/epub2-300x240.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/epub2-300x240.png 300w, https:\/\/johncanning.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/epub2.png 1017w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1556\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Varying success with images, but these have undergone numerous conversions and reformatting over the past few months.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1555\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1555\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption 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