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

Posted by user0x1d on Thursday June 17, 2021 @05:32PM
from the ask-hn dept.

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?

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Re:Ask HN: Can anybody compile all of Paul Graham's essays i... by mono-bob on Friday June 18, 2021 @04:16AM (#27548413)

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

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

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Re:Ask HN: Can anybody compile all of Paul Graham's essays i... by jiacai2050 on Saturday June 19, 2021 @02:37AM (#27558321)

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...

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Re:Ask HN: Can anybody compile all of Paul Graham's essays i... by nimvlaj30 on Thursday June 17, 2021 @05:37PM (#27544735)

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

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Re:Ask HN: Can anybody compile all of Paul Graham's essays i... by arthurcolle on Thursday June 17, 2021 @05:50PM (#27544834)

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

;)

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Re:Ask HN: Can anybody compile all of Paul Graham's essays i... by Anunayj on Sunday June 20, 2021 @05:13PM (#27573958)

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

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