Ask HN: Can anybody compile all of Paul Graham's essays into a .mobi file?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27544702

by user0x1d • 5 years ago

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I love his essays, but I can't read the longer ones on a computer monitor or my phone. I'd rather do it on my Kindle. Is there a way someone could convert them all to a single .mobi file?

nimvlaj30• 5 years ago

Have a look at pandoc. That's usually my go-to tool when converting file formats. It supports mobi.

arthurcolle• 5 years ago

I just did this in like 5 minutes in Python. If you send me $5 of bitcoin I'll send you the .mobi

;)

Anunayj• 5 years ago

Ha, isn't the BTC transaction fees itself ~$25 nowdays? Oh i guess one could use the lightening network.

mono-bob• 5 years ago

Someone has done this before. No need to reinvent the wheel in this case!

https://github.com/ofou/graham-essays

jiacai2050• 5 years ago

I have written a tool[1] to backup blogs to pdf, you can use it to save Paul's essays first, and use some other tool[2] to merge those PDFs to one mobi file.

[1] https://github.com/jiacai2050/blog-backup [2]: https://superuser.com/questions/54041/how-to-merge-pdfs-usin...

Ask HN: Can anybody compile all of Paul Graham's essays into a .mobi file?

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