save-as-ebook

Save a web page/selection as an eBook (.epub format) - a Chrome/Firefox/Opera Web Extension

How to install it

From Chrome Web Store

or manually (tested on v. 52.0.2743.116)

1. Navigate to chrome://extensions/
Load unpacked extension ...
Select the extension's directory

From Firefox Add-ons

or manually (tested on v. 50.0a2)

1. Navigate to about:debugging
Load temporary add-on ...
Select the extension's directory

Opera (tested on v. 39.0.2256.48)

1. Navigate to opera:extensions
Load unpacked extension ...
Select the extension's directory

Convert .epub to .mobi

sudo apt-get install calibre
ebook-convert "book.epub" "book.mobi"

Default Keyboard Shortcuts

NOTE These shortcuts are not fixed and the browser will assign a different shortcut if the default one is taken

| Shortcut | Description | | --- | --- | | Alt + Shift + 1 | Save current page as eBook | | Alt + Shift + 2 | Save current selection as eBook | | Alt + Shift + 3 | Add current page as chapter | | Alt + Shift + 4 | Add current selection as chapter |

How to change the default Shortcuts

in Chrome:

1. Navigate to chrome://extensions/
Scroll down
Click on Keyboard shortcuts

Added in 1.4.2

- Added MIME type to the generated .epub file

Added in 1.4.1

- Remove unnecessary permissions - Detect image type if the URL doesn't have a file extension (jpg, gif, png) - Reset the Busy indicator on errors - Remove hidden elements when style is not included - Replace iframes with divs

Added in 1.4

- Smaller ebook file size - Fix for #37 - custom styles not applied - Fix for #36 - br tag missing from pre blocks - Fix for #31 - hanging in Busy state - Other misc bug fixes

Added in v1.3.4

- Fix for MathML - the rendered expression is too large (Issue #26) - Add translation in Russian (thanks to @ Emil Khalikov) & Brazilian Portuguese (thanks to @welksonramos)

Added in v1.3

- Keyboard shortcuts - Simplified tool bar menu - Misc bug fixes

Added in v1.2.2

- fixed & & issue in title; Issue # 10

Added in v1.2.1

- support for hr/br html tags

Added in v1.2

- BETA: Support for CSS - BETA: Create / edit custom Styles - No errors from EPUB Validator (http://validator.idpf.org/) + this should fix the Google Play upload issue

Added in v1.1

- Chapter Editor: option to save changes - Chapter Editor: option to remove all chapters - persist Chapter Editor changes & chapters after generating an eBook or after a browser restart

To-Do

- make the Custom Style Editor more user friendly - support backup / restore for Custom Styles - DONE fix all 'epubcheck' errors (https://github.com/IDPF/epubcheck) - clean & optimize code - create tests - support other formats (mobi, pdf etc.) - show confirmations (ui/ux) - display errors (ui/ux) - DONE support custom style - add 'remove from ebook' right click menu action

Run Tests (Work in progress...)

cd tests
 yarn install  # install puppeteer
 node test/index.js  # should start a chrome instance with Save as eBook loaded
# it will generate and save the ebook in ./tmp-downloads
....

Credits

- http://ebooks.stackexchange.com/questions/1183/what-is-the-minimum-required-content-for-a-valid-epub - https://github.com/blowsie/Pure-JavaScript-HTML5-Parser - https://stuk.github.io/jszip/ - http://johnny.github.io/jquery-sortable/ - https://github.com/eligrey/FileSaver.js/ - https://www.iconfinder.com/icons/753890/bookbookseducationlibrarystudy_icon#size=128 - Thanks to pumpk0n and Francois Bocquet for helping me with the French translation