PDF Books from Wikipedia

Wikipedia is just brilliant.

One of the great features of this site, I liked was, the ability of combine a few pages of our interest and convert it to a PDF file. This can be used for either

• later reading
• sending to customer.

This blog post is showing how to create a PDF of some of our like minded pages. Let us say we need to create a PDF of some information on Storage Area Networking, Fibre Channel and SCSI.

Step 1.

1. Goto the page of Storage Are Networking

2. Choose Create a Book

3. Start Book Creator

5. Goto the next page on Fibre Channel Protocol

6. Add this page also.

7. Goto the SCSI page and add it as well. You should now be able to see 3 pages.

 

8. Click on Show Book, and on the next screen enter the title.

9. On the right click on download

10. There are many formats to choose from. Let us say you choose PDF and Download.

Ultimately, you get a Download link. (Press F5 to refresh)

The book is ready a PDF file.

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ePUB files.

Every smart phone today can read ePUB files. These files are the preferred ebook reader files. But how do we convert a web page to these files. The following post will show you how.

1. Get Google Chrome browser if you are not using it already. Go to this page to download.

2. Next we need Google Chrome extention, dotEPUB. This extention can be downloaded from this place. Remember we are downloading the extention from Chrome Store.

3. After you install it, your chrome will have a green dot.

4. You need a ePUB reader as well to test. So get a chrome extention that is a epub reader. Download the magicscroll reader from this place.

5. Now goto a page of your choice, Let us say this blog as well.

6. Click on the green dot.

7. Ignore the warning and click ok.

file is downloaded.

 

8. click on Add a book to your library. And begin reading

 

Try to get your favourite articles and read them on phone.

E-Books Converter

Many of us like to collect e-books. Most of them are in PDF format. But if you are the person who like to read the e-books on other devices like, iphone, android phones, tablets, nokia phones etc, then you might want to convert the books to a format that is friendly with the form factor (screen dimensions) of the device.

There is one excellent software, I recommend highly, called calibre.

So what to do now?

a. download the software from here.

b. Install and run it.

c. Select a PDF. Convert it to epub format. Use iTunes, and bring the epub to iphone, and read it there.

A good place to start is with the hundreds of manuals in PDF format that we read everyday.