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Calibre Training #3 - Create ePub books from News & Blogs

31 mins on-demand video

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Brief Introduction

Learn how to use Calibre software to download your favorite news sites & blog sites into eBooks to read on mobile device

Description

In this Course you will learn 2 Major Calibre Skills:

1. Turn News from the Internet into an ePub book that can be scheduled to read everyday

2. Turn a Blog site into an ePub book so that you have all the updated information

1. Calibre Skill: Learn How To Turn News Magazines from Web into ePUB Books to Read on your mobile device offline

Most people only use the Calibre software to read their ebooks on their computer. They use it simply as an eBook Management for their library. I have good news for you. Today, I will show you some hidden functions of Calibre so that you can follow these technical steps to create your own ePUB books to read daily news from the net on your mobile device, whether it is smart phones, ipads or iphones.

Why do we want to create these ePUB books?

They are easy to read on our mobile device.
All eBooks are html based so hyperlinks can be coded and embedded within the ePUB format for easy navigation.
With ePUB books stored on our device, we can read news anytime at our convenience, even offline.
Calibre has this automatic schedule feature which makes it easy for us to keep up with current daily or weekly events and news

5 Major Concepts:

You will learn how to use hidden features of Calibre Book Management to create an ePUB book from a News Magazine/Newspaper website.

You will learn to import the Fetch News to Customize onto your Main Tool Bar.
You will learn to look for specific News Magazines with different languages that are readily provided in the Calibre software.
You will learn to Schedule the download (Day, Week, Certain Days, Certain x days of month).
You will learn to configure the titles, authors, tags, metadata for your ePUB book.
You will learn to code the Table of Contents to make sure the chapters are hyperlinked to the different sections of the book.

2. Learn how to create Python File to Convert a Blog into an ePub Book

There are some great blogs that we subscribe to on the net. What if I tell you that you can turn your favorite blog into an eBook to read offline? This is too good to be true, isn't it?

Some of the blogs that we subscribe to have great content. If we know how to turn these blogs into eBooks, our personal Library will have great resources.

EBooks with a Table of Content on the side makes it very easy for us to navigate as everything is hyperlinked with HTML in our eBook. This is where Calibre shines because we can create eBooks easily using this software.

Since we are dealing with downloading blogs from websites, we are required to create Python program files to execute this task.

Today's tutorial involves more technical points regarding 'Python coding", but I have made the tutorial simple enough by creating a ready-prepared template for you to use. From my template, I will guide you through the steps to create a new Blog Python file without the need of learning programming at all. After I show you where you can make the changes accordingly on the template, you can then upload the new Python file into the Calibre Software to turn a blog into an eBook.

5 Major Concepts:

Learn how to use "my prepared template" as your base to create your own Python File for a Blog
Learn how to customize your own Python programming file for a particular blog
Learn how to get the RSS feeds from the blog for the programming codes
Learn how to create the .Recipe file extension & store into your Calibre Software
Learn how to Convert a blog into an ePub Book with Calibre using the Fetch News Widget

Let's have some fun together inside,

Rosa