Extension that converts Web Novels (and other web pages) into an EPUB for offline reading.

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Save a web page/selection as an eBook (.epub format) - a Chrome/Firefox/Opera Web Extension

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/save-as-ebook/haaplkpoiimngbppjihnegfmpejdnffj

Creating an ebook is a simple and pleasurable exercise. One of our volunteers has provided us with the following procedure in creating ebooks for Project Gutenberg Canada.

This guide is meant to take you step-by-step through the creation of a complete Standard Ebook. While it might seem a little long, most of the text is a description of how to use various automated scripts. It can take just an hour or two for an experienced producer to produce a draft ebook for proofreading (depending on the complexity of the ebook, of course).

Our toolset is GNU/Linux-based, and producing an ebook from scratch currently requires working knowledge of the epub file format and of Unix-like systems like Mac or Linux.

Our toolset doesn’t yet work natively on Windows, but there are many ways to run Linux from within Windows, including one that is directly supported by Microsoft themselves.

South! tells one of the most thrilling tales of exploration and survival against the odds which has ever been written. It details the experiences of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition which set off in 1914 to make an attempt to cross the Antarctic continent.

Under the direction of Sir Ernest Shackleton, the expedition comprised two components: one party sailing on the Endurance into the Weddell Sea, which was to attempt the actual crossing; and another party on board the Aurora, under the direction of Aeneas Mackintosh, sailing into the Ross Sea on the other side of the continent and tasked with establishing depots of stores as far south as possible for the use of the party attempting the crossing.

Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of copyright restrictions, and free of cost.

Ebook projects like Project Gutenberg transcribe ebooks and make them available for the widest number of reading devices. Standard Ebooks takes ebooks from sources like Project Gutenberg, formats and typesets them using a carefully designed and professional-grade style manual, fully proofreads and corrects them, and then builds them to create a new edition that takes advantage of state-of-the-art ereader and browser technology.

Standard Ebooks aren’t just a beautiful addition to your digital library—they’re a high quality standard to build your own ebooks on.

We can convert almost anything:

• Text
• Word
• PDFs
• Open Office Writer
• Libre Office
• Pages (Mac)
• WordPerfect
• InDesign Files
• Print

--into:

• MOBI (For Amazon Kindle)
• ePUB (for iPad, iBooks, Barnes & Noble Nook, Sony eReader) and KoboBooks, and,
• ePUB, Smashwords-specific
• PDF for print on demand

If You Gave Us a PDF
We Scan your PDF

So, how do we convert your PDF? 95% of the time, after we try a few things, we end up running OCR software (Optical Character Recognition) on it. Yes, just as if it were a print book. Believe it or not, this is faster and less expensive for you than if we use Adobe’s tools to “export to Word” or “export to HTML.” (If you've seen these tools, or those online "convert your file" websites, before you invest your time or money, please see our article here in the FAQ on that topic: There Is No Magic Way to Convert a PDF to eBook Form. We try this, of course, on every book, to see if we can save the client money. But usually, OCR is the best way, and produces the cleanest Word output.

Then we run comparison software which checks every single character in the output against every single character in your original PDF. Our accuracy is 99.95%, guaranteed. No conversion is ever 100%. This is one of the reasons that every client gets a review copy, to check. If we make errors in the conversion, we fix them at no charge to you. //

Yes, we know that you’ve probably seen Internet websites and ads on Google saying “Convert your PDF to Word Now!” or other such promises. Mostly, this is snake-oil. We have been doing this for four years, and we have never found an “easy" way to convert PDF's to HTML to make an eBook. We’ve never even found a good way to make a clean Word file from PDF, at least, not with "push-button magic."

PDF, as a format, is inimical to eBooks/HTML. They are 180º different. PDF cares about what something looks like--not what it is. HTML/eBooks care about what something is, first, and what it looks like, second. I have an article about (some of) the problems, using PDF, here: http://www.booknook.biz/ebook-conversion-basics/ebooks-made-from-pdf/#378 . It doesn't remotely cover everything, but it tries to explain some of the problems.

Um...I guess, if you cannot afford a professional, your only route is to use a program like Calibre, to convert it to Word, and then, from there, clean the entire file. It's a lengthy and detailed process, but it's doable. Do you know how to use Styles and Headings, Tammy? If you don't, then, to be honest, you're kind of fighting an uphill battle. You should go here: https://shaunakelly.com/topic/word/concepts.html and start at the very beginning. Work your way through that page. All the way to the bottom. When you're done with those (I know it looks intimidating, but it won't take you more than an hour), go here: https://shaunakelly.com/word/styles/tipsonstyles.html and then, work your way through 1 and 2, on that page. Then go here: https://shaunakelly.com/topic/word/numbering.html , and do this one, at the bottom: https://shaunakelly.com/word/numbering/usebuiltinheadingstyles.html .

Those will give you the fundamental basics that you need, to successfully clean up a Word file, and restyle it, using STYLES and HEADINGS, so that you can in turn make a successfully-formatted eBook. There aren't any shortcuts to this. People will tell you that there are--and they know not of what they speak. Doing this is realistically the only way to get your file from PDF to a competently-done ebook, if you have to DIY.

Hope that helps!

About eBook Formats

One of the questions that we are often asked is, "what is the best eBook format for Kindle? I'm not always sure what question I'm being asked. Is the person asking to find out what file format they should upload to Amazon? Are they asking what's the best way to make a book for the Amazon-Kindle ecosystem? Really, there are only two eBook formats that are still remaining in the USA, and, when you look around, in the world. Those formats are:

• ePUB: which stands for ePUBlication (clever, eh?), which is used by B&N, iBooks, Sony, KoboBooks, and Google, and,
• MOBI format, which is the preferred Kindle file format.

If you've Googled, you've likely seen all sorts of claims, ranging from some folks telling you that you can put an ePUB on Kindle, to the idea that using Word is the best "Kindle eBook format." The bottom line is, the files that Amazon sells to its readers are, by and large, a single file format, called "MOBI."