Turn an LJ / community into a ebook you say?
lj to ebook
Starts with ljmigrate which is easy enough to use to backup your LJ (please do) to files. Mine happen to be on a webserver but that's not really important to the process... it went something like this
pwd ##/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/MacOS export calibre=`pwd` $calibre/web2disk -d ~/Desktop/pron http://example.com/pornography/html/ $calibre/ebook-convert ~/Desktop/pron/special_index.xhtml adric_pron.epub --authors "Adric Net" --title "adric pron" --cover ~adric/pron_cover.jpg $calibre/ebook-convert ~/Desktop/eww/special_index.xhtml adric_pron.mobi --authors "Adric Net" --title "adric pron" --cover ~adric/pron_cover.jpg Then you can look the mobi over with Kindle.app or the epub with calibre's built in reader, either with open. To put it on a device just sideload. Here's a FAQ on that: http://dearauthor.com/ebooks/dear-jane-ebooks/dear-jane-how-do-i-sideload-ebooks-onto-the-kindle. Et voila! details
Needed these regexes to get the datestamps out after adding titles by year (by hand) while working on a custom index. Everything I did was scriptable (I used TextMate) and I'll try harder if this becomes a repeat task past tonight ... ran these on the index.html with Option Command R : sort -n sed -e 's,^\+ \ ,,' sed -e 's,^....-..-.. ..:..:..: ,,' Cover image should be 600x800 they say. Gimp did fine for me there and I used some of the upics from the journal to design a cover. calibre awesomeness is well documented online but was revealed to me by this, found with keyword web convert ebook: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=106869 We have some a long way from Plucker and AvantGo I'm pleased to note.
Starts with ljmigrate which is easy enough to use to backup your LJ (please do) to files. Mine happen to be on a webserver but that's not really important to the process... it went something like this
pwd ##/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/MacOS export calibre=`pwd` $calibre/web2disk -d ~/Desktop/pron http://example.com/pornography/html/ $calibre/ebook-convert ~/Desktop/pron/special_index.xhtml adric_pron.epub --authors "Adric Net" --title "adric pron" --cover ~adric/pron_cover.jpg $calibre/ebook-convert ~/Desktop/eww/special_index.xhtml adric_pron.mobi --authors "Adric Net" --title "adric pron" --cover ~adric/pron_cover.jpg Then you can look the mobi over with Kindle.app or the epub with calibre's built in reader, either with open. To put it on a device just sideload. Here's a FAQ on that: http://dearauthor.com/ebooks/dear-jane-ebooks/dear-jane-how-do-i-sideload-ebooks-onto-the-kindle. Et voila! details
Needed these regexes to get the datestamps out after adding titles by year (by hand) while working on a custom index. Everything I did was scriptable (I used TextMate) and I'll try harder if this becomes a repeat task past tonight ... ran these on the index.html with Option Command R : sort -n sed -e 's,^\+ \ ,,' sed -e 's,^....-..-.. ..:..:..: ,,' Cover image should be 600x800 they say. Gimp did fine for me there and I used some of the upics from the journal to design a cover. calibre awesomeness is well documented online but was revealed to me by this, found with keyword web convert ebook: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=106869 We have some a long way from Plucker and AvantGo I'm pleased to note.