/Paul-Graham

Paul Graham's Essays, Kindle version with several sections for easy navigation

Primary LanguageHTML

Essays: Paul Graham

中文版

After I crawled all the essays, I have done the following works:

  • Design book cover
  • Convert webpage encoding from cp1252 to utf-8 to prevent garbled characters
  • Added three chapters: Favorite, Hackers and Painters, Latest
  • Group essays alphabetically
  • Add a few articles that are not original written by the author but are on the author's website(Richard Hamming, Donald E. Knuth...)
  • Correct several punctuation mistakes (dashes and quotation marks) in the essays
  • Delete 2 broken links, remove 1 obsolete essay with too short content
  • Fix some unmatched tags in web pages to prevent text overflow on Kindles

If you are familiar with python and html, then you can add or remove essays/chapters easily! First, editing calibre.recipe or index.html, then follow the following steps:

1. Clone this repo and start a local web server

git clone https://github.com/evmn/Paul-Graham.git
cd Paul-Graham
python -m http.server 8000
If you want to add new post: First save that html page as `in.html`, then convert encode from `windows-1252` to `utf-8` 
iconv -f windows-1252 -t utf-8 in.html -o out.html

Put the out.html to www.paulgraham.com/ folder, and add new entry in index.html:

<tr valign=top><td width=435><a href="out.html">Title of New Post</a><br>g</td></tr>

2. Test recipe

Debug your recipe with the following command:

ebook-convert calibre.recipe .mobi --test -vv --debug-pipeline debug

3. Generate Your E-Book

You can choose from Calibre and command line.

Calibre

Open Calibre, right click Fetch news, then choose Add or edit a custom news source, click New recipe, then Switch to advanced mode and paste your recipe there, then click Save and choose Download this recipe. It takes less than a minute to make a Kindle books with local server.

You can also refer to this demo video in Telegram.

Command Line

ebook-convert "calibre.recipe" .mobi \
        --authors="Paul Graham" \
        --title="Essays of Paul Graham" \
        --pubdate="2021-10-24" \
        --output-profile=kindle_pw3 \
        --mobi-file-type=new \
        -vv

4. Read on Kindle/PC

Known Bugs

  • Footnotes link can't work properly

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