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I'll definitely be looking into this to replace Evernote for my current clipping archival system. Check it out at http:\u002F\u002Fjaytaylor.com\u002Fnotes I've been very…",{"id":59,"by":60,"text":61},"12315184","captn3m0","This is what I'm currently using for taking my long-reads to my Kindle. Except it doesn't always work well. For eg, with the recent NYTimes article on the Arab world[0], it…",{"id":63,"by":64,"text":65},"12314836","kayla210","Really nice! This is a lot more convenient than opening a Print dialog and choosing to save as PDF, which doesn't always work like you want it to. I haven't used ePub format yet,…",[],"open_source","unknown",{"praise":70,"objections":80,"requests":88,"questions":115,"alternatives":127},[71],{"value":72,"source":73,"evidence":74},"Useful for clipping articles to read offline","commenter",[75,76],{"id":63,"by":64,"text":65},{"id":77,"by":78,"text":79},"12314570","MistahKoala","Ooooh, now this is interesting! Presumably it clips just the article and not all the textual content on a page? I've long had an idea for an ePub app that will take email…",[81],{"value":82,"source":73,"evidence":83},"Commit messages are not descriptive",[84],{"id":85,"by":86,"text":87},"12312217","brunelli","Nice! I'll definitely keep an eye on it. I was just a bit disappointed when I went through the commit log, as it's not very descriptive. Here is a great article [1] on writing…",[89,104,111],{"value":90,"source":73,"evidence":91},"Sync saved ePubs to Dropbox or similar",[92,96,100],{"id":93,"by":94,"text":95},"12313001","erjjones","Next. Someone in the community wire this up to an API (dropbox, or something) so that when I save as ePub it also puts a copy in my dropbox so that I can read it on the road.",{"id":97,"by":98,"text":99},"12319629","rakoo","Couldn't you save the resulting epub to a dropbox folder ?",{"id":101,"by":102,"text":103},"12325455","unusximmortalis","Install dropbox sync app and point the extension to a subfolder of the dropbox sync root folder. Ta-da.",{"value":105,"source":73,"evidence":106},"Support serial web archives like webcomics",[107],{"id":108,"by":109,"text":110},"12315615","derefr","I read a lot of \"serial archive\"-formatted things (webcomics, online novels, etc.) I've always wanted an extension like this that will spider rel=\"next\" and rel=\"previous\"…",{"value":112,"source":73,"evidence":113},"Work with newsletter emails or non-browser content",[114],{"id":77,"by":78,"text":79},[116,120],{"value":117,"source":73,"evidence":118},"Does it extract only the article rather than all page text?",[119],{"id":77,"by":78,"text":79},{"value":121,"source":73,"evidence":122},"What are the benefits of ePub over PDF?",[123],{"id":124,"by":125,"text":126},"12316767","j_k_s","As someone who hasn't really used epub files, what's the benefit of it over PDF? 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If you are interested in automating this on a regular basis (perhaps to read the morning's news \u002F blogs) I recommend Calibre, it is an amazing free…",{"id":147,"by":148,"text":149},"12317359","rahimnathwani","Calibre recipes can do this. You still need to specify the start page, xpath to get the chapters etc., but it works.",{"value":151,"source":73,"evidence":152},"Dosage",[153],{"id":154,"by":155,"text":156},"12316004","lfowles","Have you seen Dosage? It supports a lot of webcomics, but I don't remember how general it was. (Edit: I missed that you finished by publishing the content as an epub)…",{"value":158,"source":73,"evidence":159},"dotepub",[160],{"id":161,"by":162,"text":163},"12313039","ikeboy","https:\u002F\u002Fdotepub.com\u002F does the same with a bookmarklet, although I don't think it's open source.",{"value":165,"source":73,"evidence":166},"Evernote Clearly",[167],{"id":168,"by":169,"text":170},"12314790","dbalbright","Anything that can work as well as Clearly. It's the best I've found at clipping articles for off-line archiving but it still makes me nervous having them on Evernote's platform…",{"comments":172,"answered":33,"key":173},2,[174,177],{"id":175,"text":176},"12312366","Thanks! ... You are right, I have a bad habit of not writing proper commit messages when working on my projects (because, usually, nobody reads them besides me :) ).",{"id":178,"text":179},"12313450","Added on the to-do list. 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