Answers.Body: <p>Since you mention you post to your blog each Sunday, if you have or can provide an RSS feed you may find the following online free service useful <em>[removed (see below)]</em>. I've been using it to create ebooks of one of my project blogs. The resulting ebook (I create .mobi books for Kindles) have been readable.</p>
  <p>I expect there will be limitations so YMMV for your blog posts.</p>
  <p><em>Edit:</em> The link above pointed to <a href="http://newstoebook.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://newstoebook.com/</a>, which is now a completely different site and no longer provides any ebook conversion services. It used to look like this in 2013: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130227110429/http://newstoebook.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://web.archive.org/web/20130227110429/http://newstoebook.com/</a></p>
  
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Answers.Text: newstoebook seems great, but unfortunately my feed has only the problems (while problems _and_ solutions are stored on my site). Thanks for the suggestion, however!
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Answers.Body: <p>You can use <a href="http://papyruseditor.com" rel="nofollow">Papyrus</a> for creating ebooks from  blog posts or any webpage.</p>
  
  <p>If you already have a blog, you can use this link to convert your <a href="http://papyruseditor.com/en/blog2book" rel="nofollow">blog to book</a>)</p>
  
  <p>Your book will be generated in EPUB, Mobi(Kindle) and PDF formats.</p>
  
  <p>Disclosure: I am the creator of this site.</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>If your files really are genuinely valid XHTML, you could even write an XSLT2 script to do the job yourself. That way you can cater for any idiosyncracies in your XHTML which other systems may not be designed to handle.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: I never managed to grasp even old XSLT...
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Answers.Text: Is it -can XSLT crewe a zip file i.e. the epub container?
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Answers.Body: <p>I assume you don't write the HTML directly, but use something like MarkDown or reST. But even if you do, you should look at <a href="http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html">Pandoc</a>.</p>
  
  <p>The program can read HTML and generate EPUB 2 or EPUB 3 (among others).</p>
  
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Answers.Text: actually I write my HTML directly (I am quite old, I started using Mosaic :-) ) Pandoc seems quite interesting, indeed!
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Answers.Text: @mau I used Mosaic as well (how much nicer than using gopher and WAIS). Nothing wrong with writing HTML directly, it is just not seen to often nowadays.
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Answers.Text: gopher, Veronica and WAIS had a different scope, after all, more towards classification :-)
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Body: <p>I have a number of short HTML files (actually they are XHTML) with small problems and answers, which I post on my blog every Sunday, and I'd like to merge some of them in an ebook.
  I already did it once, just by stripping the headers and footers and merging them together; then I create the epub skeleton with Calibre and tweaked it with Sigil. But since there are a lot of internal links, it is a time-consuming process.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a simpler way?</p>
  
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Comments.Text: Is the issue just from HTML to epub - or managing the links as I think if the latter that should be emphasised in the title as simple answers for HTML->epub don't work as you state
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Title: How to build an epub starting from a bunch of HTML files?
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ThreadText: # How to build an epub starting from a bunch of HTML files?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2013-12-22)
  
  I have a number of short HTML files (actually they are XHTML) with small problems and answers, which I post on my blog every Sunday, and I'd like to merge some of them in an ebook.
  I already did it once, just by stripping the headers and footers and merging them together; then I create the epub skeleton with Calibre and tweaked it with Sigil. But since there are a lot of internal links, it is a time-consuming process.
  
  Is there a simpler way?
  
  **Tags:** epub, creation, calibre
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_2**: Is the issue just from HTML to epub - or managing the links as I think if the latter that should be emphasised in the title as simple answers for HTML->epub don't work as you state  
  > **username_1**: Also look at answers of http://ebooks.stackexchange.com/questions/1203/convert-blog-to-book  
  
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  ## 4 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_6 on 2013-12-22. Score: 10 | Accepted answer
  
  I assume you don't write the HTML directly, but use something like MarkDown or reST. But even if you do, you should look at [Pandoc](http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html).
  
  The program can read HTML and generate EPUB 2 or EPUB 3 (among others).
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: actually I write my HTML directly (I am quite old, I started using Mosaic :-) ) Pandoc seems quite interesting, indeed!  
  > **username_6**: @username_0 I used Mosaic as well (how much nicer than using gopher and WAIS). Nothing wrong with writing HTML directly, it is just not seen to often nowadays.  
  > **username_0**: gopher, Veronica and WAIS had a different scope, after all, more towards classification :-)  
  
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  ### Answer by username_3 on 2013-12-22. Score: 4
  
  Since you mention you post to your blog each Sunday, if you have or can provide an RSS feed you may find the following online free service useful *[removed (see below)]*. I've been using it to create ebooks of one of my project blogs. The resulting ebook (I create .mobi books for Kindles) have been readable.
  
  I expect there will be limitations so YMMV for your blog posts.
  
  *Edit:* The link above pointed to <http://newstoebook.com/>, which is now a completely different site and no longer provides any ebook conversion services. It used to look like this in 2013: <https://web.archive.org/web/20130227110429/http://newstoebook.com/>
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: newstoebook seems great, but unfortunately my feed has only the problems (while problems _and_ solutions are stored on my site). Thanks for the suggestion, however!  
  
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  ### Answer by username_4 on 2013-12-27. Score: 3
  
  You can use [Papyrus](http://papyruseditor.com) for creating ebooks from blog posts or any webpage.
  
  If you already have a blog, you can use this link to convert your [blog to book](http://papyruseditor.com/en/blog2book))
  
  Your book will be generated in EPUB, Mobi(Kindle) and PDF formats.
  
  Disclosure: I am the creator of this site.
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_5 on 2014-01-02. Score: 1
  
  If your files really are genuinely valid XHTML, you could even write an XSLT2 script to do the job yourself. That way you can cater for any idiosyncracies in your XHTML which other systems may not be designed to handle.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: I never managed to grasp even old XSLT...  
  > **username_2**: Is it -can XSLT crewe a zip file i.e. the epub container?  
  
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