online reading in epub

[zats_clear]

 is there a simple way to turn articles I am reading online into epubs?  Right now, I can copy them into a word doc, which I save as a pdf and then transform into an epub using this site.  I am always shocked to find out that I already had the tools at my disposal to do something simpler so I thought I'd check!

Comments

[dreamatdrew]

Have you checked out instapaper.com ?

[zats_clear]

i will check it out now!

[dreamatdrew]

I use instapaper because I can download a mobi (or epub, or plaintext, but I just go for the mobis) from my kindle. Drop a bookmarklet in your mark-bar, and you're good...

[dreamatdrew]

Also, you can folder-ize stuff

[finch]

Instapaper is great if you want to group a bunch together. For single web pages I use a chrome plug in (I think it's called dot ePub? I'm on my phone right now) that does it automatically with one click.

[zats_clear]

thanks! and this would be why I ask...I HAVE chrome and use it as my primary browser. And now that you bring it up, I recall Firefox having some kind of update on that too.

*headdesk*

[jumpuphigh]

I was going to suggest dotEpub as well.
ETA: dotEpub doesn't always work well. It works best when the page is mostly text.

Also, for things you've put into Word, don't save them as pdf. Save the file as a web page, import it as a book into Calibre and convert it there. That will work so much better.

[cyprinella]

Would Readability work with that plugin? I use that a lot on cluttered news sites.

[jumpuphigh]

The program is actually based on Readability so I would hope it works with it. I don't use Readability though, so I don't know how the two would interact.

[cathepsut]

I use this site and I love it:

http://ebook.online-convert.com/convert-to-epub

[sprat]

I use Zinepal a lot, especially for multipage things I want to compile into a single epub for my ipod. It has a paid option, but you can create a five webpage ebook with the free account, and it emails you automatically with several formats for download once the conversion is complete.

[ephemera]

I use the dotEPUB add on for Firefox and Chrime, which is great when you want the main *text* but works less well if you also want comments. I shall check out some of the other tools mentioned here for multi-page items!