[NitaaiKumar]

Greetings. There many WordPress plugins which convert the blog into an epub ebook for offline reading. So there certainly is demand for download a website once and read forever even without internet. There is excellent search, font resizing, soothing page background colors, brightness settings, go to navigation, thumbnail navigation, table of contents, bookmarking, notes, etc. features in almost all ebook readers nowadays like iBooks, Google Play Books, etc. etc.

The epub format is also based on xml/html etc. So if any time in the near or far future if you can kindly add this awesome feature in Publii of exporting all the posts in a blog into its own epub ebook with the post titles showing in the epub TOC. It would blow all the ebook publishing softwares out of the water because in Publii we are getting a very pretty (many themes) static html seo-optimized website also as a very huge bonus.

So just write once in Publii and publish it as a fast website and a epub in one shot.

You could even charge for this Publii epub export as a premium feature which all of us who need it can pay for. I am also willing to donate to support the development of this epub export feature. Thanks.

[Mathias]

Hi NitaaiKumar,

How good are you at programming? Such functionality can be easily created yourself: you query the “posts” table (in db.sqlite = sqlite3 database format, open and free) and dump it into some format of your liking. I programmed a VBA script which exports all my posts to individual PDF files. I guess something similar could be done for epub format.

Mathias

[NitaaiKumar]

Wow Mathias. I can’t program at all. I would not know how to do it myself. Thanks for sharing. You are kind. Great to know. Plus I may be wrong but such scripts could be written for Publii on Windows but not on Macs?

From my side, why I preferred an epub over a pdf is because most pdfs are not optimized to be read on mobiles due to their A4 or similar sizes, whereas we know 80% of the world’s audience is on mobiles anyway. They need a lot of pinch and zoom in such a case. Plus having separate pdfs for each post would need them to save so many pdfs separately. Whereas epubs can easily go to 1000s of pages in very lightweight xml pages I think along with all the features I mentioned above, which are not possible in pdfs.

Wish Bob and Tomasz create a paid plugin for epub export too after the plugin functionality is live in Publii. People pay so much for buying epub and website creator softwares at the same time. So they will certainly buy this epub export plugin.

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