Monday, August 18, 2014

How To Turn Wikipedia Pages Into Ebooks

If you are like me, you probably love binge-reading Wikipedia, everyone's favorite web encyclopedia. It contains a huge database of content on almost any topic under the Sun, and in a variety of languages. If you are preparing for a trip, you'd probably save some of these reading materials to read later, offline, but what if you could turn it into an ebook? There is in fact a way to create an ebook from inside Wikipedia. You can create or arrange the chapters then turn it into an ebook in EPUB form or PDF form, free of charge. Alternatively you can request Wikipedia to send you a printed version, or get it printed out yourself.

1. Collecting Articles

First, locate the Print/Export link on the left sidebar of the Wikipedia page. Click on the Create a book link. Wikipedia will redirect you to the Book Creator as shown below. The next step is collecting pages you want to put into your book. Click on the Start book creator green button. Once you enable the book creator, the Book creator box will show up in every Wikipedia page you visit. To add the pages of your choice from Wikipedia, on the page with the content you want to save, simply click on Add this page to your book. After adding the page, you should see under Show book (1 page). [...]

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