GridTips: How To Turn Wikipedia Pages Into Ebooks

segunda-feira, 18 de agosto de 2014

How To Turn Wikipedia Pages Into Ebooks

By
Fahad Khan.
Filed in How-To Guides

If we are like me, we substantially adore binge-reading Wikipedia, everyone’s favorite web encyclopedia. It contains a outrageous database of calm on roughly any subject underneath a Sun, and in a accumulation of languages. If we are scheming for a trip, you’d substantially save some of these reading materials to review later, offline, though what if we could spin it into an ebook?

There is in fact a approach to create an ebook from inside Wikipedia. You can emanate or arrange a chapters afterwards spin it into an ebook in EPUB form or PDF form, giveaway of charge. Alternatively we can ask Wikipedia to send we a printed version, or get it printed out yourself.

You can also do this with Readlists and even accumulate a book of your tweets with Twournal.

1. Collecting Articles

First, locate a Print/Export couple on a left sidebar of a Wikipedia page. Click on a Create a book link.

Wikipedia will route we to a Book Creator as shown below. The subsequent step is collecting pages we wish to put into your book. Click on a Start book creator immature button.

Once we capacitate a book creator, a Book creator box will uncover adult in each Wikipedia page we visit.

To supplement a pages of your choice from Wikipedia, on a page with a calm we wish to save, simply click on Add this page to your book.

After adding a page, we should see underneath Show book (1 page).

Add all a pages of your choice for your book. Once we are finished with adding all a pages afterwards it is time to to arrange a pages as per your requirement.

Click on a Show book option to see your collected pages. You will arrive during a Manage your book section. Here we can:

see all a pages we have enclosed in your book

assign a pretension to a book

rearrange a sequence of a pages in chapters

order a book as a printed book

download it in a format of your choice

2. Managing Your Book Content

You can change a Title and Subtitle of your book, select a paper size a book should be published in (A4 or Letter size) and file a essence of your book. You can manually drag a pages into order, or select to list a chapters in alphabetical order. If we like, we can also add Chapters, afterwards assign pages underneath a chapter for improved categorization. If we need a list of contents, only parasite a Include a list of contents option.

3. Output Your Book

There are dual ways to tell your book: in a printed earthy book or an ebook.

3.1 Printed On Paper

To imitation this as a earthy book, Wikipedia gives we a choice to imitation this around PediaPress.

You can still make changes to a Title and Subtitles during this indicate and we can also preview a essence of a book around a Click to preview! link.

Once we have comparison a final demeanour of your cover, we can select where to broach a book to, if we want it in hardcover or if we want it in color. Each welfare will lift some additional costs and remember that a final cost we see does not embody shipping costs yet.

Read Also: Beginner’s Guide To Publishing Your Own Ebook

3.2 Getting The EBook Copy

If we are on a budget, we can always select to have a pages in ebook form. There are five formats we can beget a ebook in. Choose a format we wish and follow a instructions that ensue.

For instance for PDF, a ebook will be generated in PDF and we will have to manually save a book to your desktop to review offline. If your comparison format is ePUB, afterwards we will need a reader app or spectator app to open a book or use this tip to review ePUB books on Firefox and Chrome.