Comments on: I want to put a web site on my Kindle.

Question: I want to put a web site on my Kindle.

grumblebee — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:20:06 -0800

Is there a simple way to convert a multi-page website to a mobi-format book for reading on a Kindle? The site contains html-text plus graphics, but no interactivity.

It's an online computer manual. It has a home page, which is a table of contents. Each item in the contents links to a different web page.

The individual pages are composed of text and screenshots of the application.

I want to be able to read this manual on my Kindle, rather than on my laptop. I don't want to read it on the crappy Kindle web-browser, because I won't always be able to be online. (My apartment is in a Sprint dead zone.)

I assume that I'd have to make one big web page out of all the site pages and then convert from html to mobi.

Is there a way to turn a site into a single page?

Is there a way to then turn that page into a mobi document (or something else the Kindle reads) that still contains images?

By: comwiz

comwiz — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:22:45 -0800

An easy option:
Use a pdf printer (such as CutePDF to print the webpage as a PDF file, and then convert the PDF file to something readable by the Kindle.

By: grumblebee

grumblebee — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:27:25 -0800

I should mention that I'm on a Mac.

By: grumblebee

grumblebee — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:28:49 -0800

I'm wondering if comwiz's solution will maintain the graphics. Also, comwiz says "web page." Does CutePDF make each page into a separate file? I need one file (one book) containing all the pages.

By: Lord Widebottom

Lord Widebottom — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:15:47 -0800

So far the .pdf files that I have converted for use with the kindle using the Amazon conversion (the [at]kindle.com address) seem to have brought their graphics across OK, but I don't think I have converted anything with graphics more complicated than black and white drawings yet.

Alternately, the Mobipocket software (Publisher Edition) is supposedly a good way to do the conversions for yourself.

That still leaves the question of consolidating the site. Hopefully someone will come through on that one because I would like do that myself :)

By: wongcorgi

wongcorgi — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:13:57 -0800

I'm pretty sure the Mobipocket creator will allow you to create a file from multiple sources. The only problem is the software is Windows only.

By: mmkhd

mmkhd — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:52:48 -0800

Did you look at Calibre yet?

There is a pretty straightforward description on how to get multiple pages converted in a specific order that sounds just like your already available table of contents html page.

It converts straight to mobi (among others) and is available for the mac. (Great for all those Sony PRS-505 owners.)

By: neuron

neuron — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:18:07 -0800

Combine PDFs (freeware) will stitch those PDFs together for you.

By: onalark

onalark — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:05:53 -0800

Preview.app can stitch PDFs together (and has been able to do so since Tiger). All you do is enable the Sidebar view and drag the pages from one document's sidebar into the other, you can reorder as well.

As for the larger question, perhaps a FireFox extension that downloads an entire set of pages, and then PDF-inate the site?

By: larsks

larsks — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 05:04:06 -0800

htmldoc is a quick, automated way to turn a single web page into a PDF document. If you combine this with a simple script to extract the URLs from the table of contents page and run htmldoc on each one, you have everything you need.

Any chance you can post the URL you're trying to convert?

By: grumblebee

grumblebee — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 09:25:12 -0800

Iarsks: here.