: Re: Convert Blog to book I prefer reading technical blogs in Kindle, is there an easy way to convert a technical blog from any site – MSDN blog or personal sites – to a e-book format like

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Fortunately, there is already an easy solution.

First, you need to find a way to scrape the site. Probably from RSS feeds. www.imaginaryplanet.net/weblogs/idiotprogrammer/2013/12/how-to-find-and-view-rss-feeds-in-various-browsers/ When you can find the RSS feed, you need to figure out if it has a full feed and not a partial one. (But I think there are tools around to pull the full article from a partial feed if you to do that. Let's hope the full RSS is available though).

Calibre has a feature called "Fetch News" which can convert active RSS feeds into an ebook format of your choice. manual.calibre-ebook.com/news.html
You just choose the dropdown, Add a custom news source, and then enter the appropriate RSS feed. (You can further customize the recipe with python code, but generally you do not need to worry about that).

By the way, if this is a well-known tech site, Calibre may already have a recipe for it which you can use. You can check if this is true by choosing the dropdown Schedule a News Download

After you have created the ebook you will need to get it to your device. Either you can email it to your kindle device or sync it via USB (which Calibre can do for you btw).

The resulting ebook doesn't look pretty, but it is readable.

I suspect the biggest problem would be if the RSS feed is defective or partial. Recently a lot of news site has stopped publishing full RSS feeds.

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