Comments on: How To Make Your Own Books From Wikipedia http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-make-your-own-books-from-wikipedia/ Cool Websites, Software and Internet Tips Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:28:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mark O'Neill http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-make-your-own-books-from-wikipedia/#comment-380067 Mark O'Neill Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:21:51 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=13756#comment-380067 I've just tried this out and it <i>more or less</i> worked. There were one or two snags which shows that the festure needs to have a few bugs ironed out of it. For one, the formatting from webpage to PDF is not entirely perfect and two, when I tried to view the PDF, it told me that I had to download various PDF addons such as Chinese fonts!!! There isn't any Chinese characters at all in the Wikipedia articles that I chose for my books so why do I need to download them? Still, a rather neat feature! I’ve just tried this out and it more or less worked. There were one or two snags which shows that the festure needs to have a few bugs ironed out of it. For one, the formatting from webpage to PDF is not entirely perfect and two, when I tried to view the PDF, it told me that I had to download various PDF addons such as Chinese fonts!!! There isn’t any Chinese characters at all in the Wikipedia articles that I chose for my books so why do I need to download them?

Still, a rather neat feature!

]]> By: Saikat http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-make-your-own-books-from-wikipedia/#comment-378509 Saikat Wed, 11 Mar 2009 04:30:49 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=13756#comment-378509 That shows the worth of Wikipedia as an information source doesn't it :) I for one make it a point to check out the external links given at the bottom too for more useful information. That shows the worth of Wikipedia as an information source doesn’t it :) I for one make it a point to check out the external links given at the bottom too for more useful information.

]]> By: Glenn http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-make-your-own-books-from-wikipedia/#comment-378396 Glenn Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:10:10 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=13756#comment-378396 So we can look forward to more lazily assembled educational notes in college/university courses? Speaking from bitter experience of signing up for a part-time university course only to notice that many of the "course notes" were ripped directly from Wikipedia articles... So we can look forward to more lazily assembled educational notes in college/university courses?
Speaking from bitter experience of signing up for a part-time university course only to notice that many of the “course notes” were ripped directly from Wikipedia articles…

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