LDS General Conference for e-readers

jasoncarloscox.com/creations/conf-to-epub

A script to convert LDS General Conference to EPUB, as well as converted files for past conferences.

These are pretty basic EPUBs -- the footnotes are removed, images may not show up right, and links aren't guaranteed to work -- but if you just want a table of contents and the text of each talk, they should be good enough.

Gimme the files

If you just want to download the files for your e-reader, check out the conferences/ directory. Currently .epub files are provided (plus .mobi for some older conferences).

For recent conferences, there are two different EPUB files: the one created by pandoc, ending in .epub; and another created by converting that EPUB to AZW3 and back to EPUB, ending in .converted.epub. These converted EPUBs exist to work around issues with Amazon's import service (see issue #2) -- try them out if the normal .epub files don't work for you.

If the format you need isn't there, try using a tool like Calibre (desktop application that also ships with the ebook-convert CLI) or Cloud Convert (online converter) to convert the .epub file to the format you need.

I want to use the script

Requirements

The Bash script depends on curl, htmlq and pandoc. Optionally, if ebook-convert is available, files will be converted to AZW3 and back to EPUB as well.

Usage

conf-to-epub.sh <year> <month> [<language>]

• <year> is 4 digits
• <month> is one of april, apr, 4, 04, october, oct, 10 (case-insensitive)
• <language> (optional) is the argument to the lang query parameter on the churchofjesuschrist.org URLs and defaults to eng

I need help / I want to contribute

Contributions are welcome! You can send questions, bug reports, patches, etc. by email to ~jcc/public-inbox@lists.sr.ht. (Don't know how to contribute via email? Check out the interactive tutorial at git-send-email.io, or email me for help.)

GitHub issues and pull requests are fine, too.