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The problem with all of these services doing Blog RSS -> ebook is that the RSS feed typically only has the last 20 items and doesn't include comments, hence the
by ig1 14y ago
The problem with all of these services doing Blog RSS -> ebook is that the RSS feed typically only has the last 20 items and doesn't include comments, hence the value is relatively limited.
Given almost all blogs run on a handful of services (i.e Wordpress) it probably wouldn't be hard to make custom scrapers that capture everything.
- shantanubala 14y agoYup! That's the next step that I'm working on right now :-) I've gotten in touch with the folks at Readability, and will be implementing their content parser soon. I'm looking to create an easy way for bloggers to publish their content for ebook readers without having to lock themselves into DRM schemes like the Kindle publishing platform, so this is targeted at the bloggers themselves primarily.
- Turing_Machine 14y ago"RSS feed typically only has the last 20 items" In Wordpress, at least, this is an easy configuration change. In Blogger, you can just add ?max-results=500 (or whatever) to the feed URI to get as many as you want.
- pseingatl 14y agoAdding this to the ebookglue URL yields the same result, only 20 entries.
- Turing_Machine 14y agoIt must be some limitation in the ebookglue code. For example: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?max-results=500 http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?max-resu... produces a helluva lot more than 20 entries. :-)