by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n
Wikipedia now allows you to gather articles into a book. You can download the book as a PDF or actually have a printer make you a hardcopy of you book.<\/strong><\/p>\n For several years now, Wikipedia has allowed printing articles. The printed pages looked good and were easy to read. Recently, Wikipedia has added a feature that allows you to create a book.\u00a0The book-building feature allows you to group many articles and print it all as a book.<\/p>\n The book building is fairly simple to use, but I suggest practicing a bit before doing something “serious.” Instead of clicking on the usual “print” on the left side of the Wikipedia page, click on “print\/export.” You can now create a book<\/em>, Download as PD<\/em>F (also a nice newer feature), or print with the usual Printable Version<\/em>.<\/p>\n I have used the\u00a0create a book<\/em> option to build half a dozen “books” comprising related articles. I’ve put upwards of several dozen articles in some of my books. I put the results of my books into PDF files of over a hundred pages and downloaded them to my computer. I can also go to my Wikipedia page and modify my books at any time.<\/p>\n Wikipedia also provides the option of sending your book (collection of articles) to a printer and having a hardcopy made and mailed to you. The cost of the hardcopy depends on the number of pages. I haven’t used the hardcopy service, but my “books” would each cost less than $10. You can put a photograph from any of the articles on the cover of the printed book.<\/p>\n Why gather Wikipedia articles and print them? Why not. Hold a set of articles in your hand and read them on the airplane or any other place where you can’t access the online library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips Wikipedia now allows you to gather articles into a book. You can download the book as a PDF or actually have a printer make you a hardcopy of you book. For several years now, Wikipedia has allowed printing articles. The printed pages looked good and were easy to read. Recently, Wikipedia has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,74],"tags":[126,194],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","category-wikipedia","tag-technology","tag-wikipedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":588,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions\/588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}