Convert web pages to one file for ebook

I want to download HTMLs (example: ) and join it to one HTML or some other format that i can use on ebook reader. Sites with free books don't have standard paging, they're not blogs or forums, so don't know how to do some automatic crawling and merging.

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You can use Calibre for you ebook converting needs. You can get it to make a single ebook of multiple HTML files by linking to them from a single HTML file you setup as a table of contents like this.

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The way I used to do this was Calibre.

That became too much of a pain though so I built a Chrome Extension to make it easier.

It's called EpubPress ().

It allows you to build an ebook from your Chrome tabs.

Hope that helps!

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Pandoc can take a link to a page (or a html file) and convert it to pdf/epub ...

I'm not sure if it'd crawl. If it doesn't, you could crawl pages first with wget or something (or just collect links) and give it to pandoc.

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You can use and the pocket recipe in calibre accessible via the "Fetch news" menu.

HTTrack is a good option - it will build an ebook from a website: It is available for download from here: HTTrack "allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer. HTTrack arranges the original site's relative link-structure."

You can then convert the HTML into an EPUB , AZW3 or PDF using Calibre, or any other HTML to epub conversion software.

A second option to convert directly to EPUB is EpubPress: It has extensions to allow use from Firefox (v44.0+ only) or Chrome. To use this software you need to open a browser window. Each tab is essentially a 'chapter' in your ebook. Arrange the tabs in the desired order of appearance, then activate epubpress - it will download and arrange the tabs in their order of appearance, in .epub format. Hope this helps!

*However, note that EpubPress downloads discrete webpages - not a 'website', at HTTrack does. To download a website with EpubPress you must open each link on the website as a separate tab, then use Epubpress to collect these links into .epub format.