my hobby: mass downloading the entire corpuses of long-running blogs on to my phone as an epub and searching keywords when i want to talk with someone
What mass-downloading method do you use?
I, too, am interested in downloading entire blog corpuses onto my phone, and I’m curious if you have any tips/techniques for archiving more effectively.
(I’m not sure to what extent your post is joking, but I thought I’d ask the above in case it’s sufficiently serious that you actually have a real mass-downloading method in mind.)
ive used http://www.bloxp.com/ (id like something better) which converts some blogs and has trouble with others
this is a thing i do! ah but i did prepend it with the meme format of “my hobby:” which is evidence that the thing following is not, in fact, your hobby
Ooh!
For what I can tell from the initial testing: not a full solution, but for the things it *can* handle, much faster and less effort than the pasting-things-into-LibreOffice-documents (sometimes printing-pages-to-PDF) I normally do.
(Automation is like salt: I often find things are better after adding it, but it rarely occurs to me to add it unprompted.)
P.S. It did at least occur to me a mere couple of weeks after changing my podcast-downloading habits to something that would be aided by a podcatcher that I should, in fact, get a podcatcher. Although that might have been prompted by noticing that Rhythmbox has a podcatcher built-in, so maybe it doesn’t count.
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