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Turn Wikipedia Articles into Ebooks | Screencast Tutorial

By on September 24, 2012

 

Wikipedia users can now create ebooks using articles from the English edition of the crowd-sourced reference. The feature, launched September 17, allows anyone to generate free ebooks in PDF, EPUB, and OpenOffice formats for reading on a range of devices, including smartphones, tablets and E Ink readers, such as the Kindle. Users can also order a printed book via PediaPress, Wikipedia’s print-on-demand vendor.

Linda W. Braun, a library consultant with LEO and regular contributor to School Library Journal, demonstrates how this works in the following screencast:

 

Turn Wikipedia Articles into Ebooks | Screencast Tutorial from School Library Journal on Vimeo.

 

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Linda W. Braun About Linda W. Braun

Linda W. Braun (lbraun@leonline.com) is the Youth Services Manager at Seattle Public Library, an educational technology consultant, a past president of YALSA, and adjunct faculty at Simmons College Graduate School of Library & Information Science.

Comments

  1. Diane U says:
    September 24, 2012 at 6:32 pm

    Or you could keep using InstaPaper which will format your clippings for your device. By the way, Kindles don’t read Epub.

  2. Dan Kleinman of SafeLibraries says:
    September 25, 2012 at 4:57 am

    That was really good. Thank you, Linda & SLJ.