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Several topics have become quite extensive and have become almost like a book while reading on a laptop or in a browser is not always most optimal. Further, some users like to be able to backup their content or save a topic to read later.

A small javascript widget makes it possible to make an .epub ebook print of a complete forum topic, including all images embedded. It should work in modern browsers and it provides several options, such as an option to select the pages to print (e.g. only page 3,4,5 of a topic).

To print a topic into an ebook, you can copy and paste the following javascript code into the browser console (F12).

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(function(b,c,a,d){
   a=b.createElement("script");a.async=1;a.src="https://psyreporter.com/epub/epub.js";b.head.appendChild(a);d=setInterval(function(){window.epubExport&&(clearInterval(d),c&&window.epubExport(c),console.info("ebook epub export widget ready",window.epubExport))},10)
})(document,{
   /* options object */
});

Example options:

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{
   "cover": "https://onlinephilosophyclub.com/forums/download/file.php?avatar=39661_1389361593.jpg",
   "pages": [14,15,16],
   "title": "A selection of forum posts to read..."
}

Note: to download external images, a 'CORS' proxy is needed. The default may stop working after some time or become slow. A list of free proxies is available on the following URL: https://gist.github.com/jimmywarting/ac ... f8fbe51347

Options:

• pages: array An array of page indexes to export into the book, e.g. [4,5,6] for pages 4 to 6.
• cover: string Book cover image URL, e.g. "http://abc.com/book-cover.jpg"
• title: string
  Title of the book
• author: string | string[] (optional, default ['anonymous'])
  Name of the author for the book, e.g. "Alice" or ["Alice", "Bob"]
• publisher: string (optional, default anonymous)
  Publisher name
• description: string (optional)
  Book description
• proxy: string A CORS proxy to enable remote images to be included in the book.
• css: string (optional)
  CSS string, to include in book, e.g: "body{background: #000}"

Demo ebook (viewtopic.php?f=12&t=16848):

On the absurd hegemony of science
example-ebook.png (460.7 KiB) Viewed 4197 times

Download ebook: https://psyreporter.com/epub/on-the-abs ... ience.epub

Hopefully it is beneficial for someone. Happy reading!

[psyreporter]

You can create a browser button to print a topic with a single click:

Right-click on the browser bookmark bar and select "Create new bookmark".

create-bookmark.png

Now, when you want to save a topic to ebook, you can simply click the button in the browser and within seconds the ebook is printed.

print-ebook-button.png

New options:

• images: boolean, e.g. true or false.
  Embed or remove images in ebook.
• print_sound: string | boolean (optional, default old-printer.wav)
  A printer sound to play during ebook generation.

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{
   "images": false,
   "print_sound": "https://psyreporter.com/epub/printer.wav" // printer sound recorded in the year 1992
}

[psyreporter]

You can create a browser button to print a topic with a single click:

Right-click on the browser bookmark bar and select "Create new bookmark".

Create bookmark
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Now, when you want to save a topic to ebook, you can simply click the button in the browser and within seconds the ebook is printed.

Print topic to ebook
print-ebook-button.png (19.69 KiB) Viewed 4189 times

New options:

• images: boolean, e.g. true or false.
  Embed or remove images in ebook.
• print_sound: string | boolean (optional, default old-printer.wav)
  A printer sound to play during ebook generation.

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{
   "images": false,
   "print_sound": "https://psyreporter.com/epub/printer.wav" // printer sound recorded in the year 1992
}