eBooks for the cassiopaea.org website content

s1mpleman

s1mpleman

Jedi
Hello everyone. Hope all are well during these times.

I've asked the admins here if it's ok to share some eBook files (.epub) that I've generated from the content on Cassiopaea.org and they've said that would be great. So here they are! I have included a link at the bottom of this post which will take you to a shared folder on my Google Drive where you can download them all.

I generated these files because been an IT Manager at my daily job I spend most of my day behind a computer screen. This quickly get’s tiresome for my eyes and I wanted a way to reduce this.

So, seen as I’m currently learning how to program in JavaScript (the programming language that makes all the fancy stuff happen on a webpage.), I decided to solve that little issue for myself by writing a script. The script basically runs through all of the content on the Cassiopaea.org website collating it all into .epub file. This file can be added to your kindle readers for you to read offline. I personally use one of the paperwhite ones which I have found to be a lot easier on the eyes.

The eBooks are a carbon copy of all the material that is available on the website and each book is created from the articles and volumes that are contained there. It’s basically a digital book collection of the material contained on the front page, with the same headings, chapter’s, order and content. At the very most my script may have missed a few of the images, but there is nothing added or removed from the text. There is an example photo from Amazing Grace attached to this post

The script can be found here on my personal git repository for anyone wanting to take a look. You will require some basic JavaScript knowledge and some understanding of nodeJS to be able to read it though.
NotExpectedYet/CassScraper

An explanation of what the script does:
The script loads up the first link on the site which is Laura’s book Amazing Grace and makes a note of all the chapters contained on that page. Once it’s collated and ordered those it begins to traverse the rest of the links copying the content into a format your eBook reader can understand keeping as many as the images and all of the text it finds intact. Then it moves on to the next link which would be Comets and Catastrophes.

I’ve found these useful as I’ve mentioned above with my eyes so I hope others can get some use out of them too.

Cassiopaea Books - Google Drive

Edit: Forgot to add the example.

For those who like to read in PDF:
seek10 said:
Since I like to read in pdf ( can be opened in kindle too) and I converted them to pdf from epub . I uploaded them to my google drive if any body interested.
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Hello S1mpleman

This initiative is really great ! Thank you very much for your work and the time you have spent doing this, it will allow in case of internet connection problems for example to continue to gather knowledge and to make our reflections work ! Thanks to the administrators for their authorization.
Keep up the good work and see you soon.
 
Abats said:
Hello S1mpleman

This initiative is really great ! Thank you very much for your work and the time you have spent doing this, it will allow in case of internet connection problems for example to continue to gather knowledge and to make our reflections work ! Thanks to the administrators for their authorization.
Keep up the good work and see you soon.
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You are most welcome!
 
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