
I would like to ask the community how useful is the service to convert articles from Wikipedia to fictionbook2 format?
Now the service works in a certain Draft mode, it satisfies my needs (both in terms of convenience, and in terms of performance and the number of flaws).
If there are several people to whom this kind of service can be useful - then you can bring it into a “production” form and publish it for public access.
How do I see this:
Solved problem:
Make reading long wikipedia articles more comfortable and convenient.
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How is this achieved:
Service, at the request of the user creates a file format fb2 with the contents of an article from Wikipedia. The user saves the file to a mobile device and reads when it is convenient for him and in his favorite book reader.
The target audience:
Owners of smartphones, PDAs, e-book. Prefer to read offline.
Competitors:
Optimized wikipedia for mobile devices
All sorts of different clients written for specific mobile devices (there is a bunch for the IPhone, for Android too, for a couple of WM there are some)
Benefits:
- Convenient clients for reading books in fb2 format is for almost any platform. At the same time, using Wikipedia through the browser is not convenient anywhere. In particular, when formatting text, browsers do not insert hyphens within words, but HaaliReader does this.
- Reading offline - downloaded an article in fb2 (or even fb2.zip) and sit in the subway read it.
Clear disadvantages:
- hypertext is lost (or not very conveniently implemented)
- at the moment, the service "buggy" does not support redirects in Wikipedia, sometimes it makes mistakes with pictures and stuff ...
- while working only with Russian Wikipedia
- ... I will remember I will add more, but many shortcomings ...
Examples of books:
kamasutra.fb2microsoft.fb2pifagor.fb2PS Now the service is a site with one input field and one button, but nothing prevents you from making it a greasemonkey script that will work on Wikipedia sites ...
Update: Karma allowed to be transferred to Wikipedia blog. there seems to be a better place