Meaningness EPUB converter

A quick tool to turn David Chapman's Meaningness into a read-anywhere* EPUB ebook.

* Note to Kindle users: This tool only produces an EPUB file, which by itself will not work on a Kindle. You'll have to convert it to a MOBI file with Calibre. Note that the Table of Contents does not work after MOBI conversion, since as far as I can tell MOBI TOCs can only be 3 levels deep, and Meaningness' TOC is 9.

How to run

1. Clone the project
2. Install .NET Core on your platform of choice (instructions for Windows, Mac, and Linux)
3. Build the project

   dotnet build

4. Run the project

   dotnet run -- -o Meaningness.epub

Note on slowness

You'll notice the download process is a bit slow (about 30 minutes for all 183 chapters). This is because the script honors the Crawl-Delay in Meaningness' robots.txt file and only downloads one file every 10 seconds. You could change this, but consider whether you are being a good web citizen by so doing.

If a run is interrupted, you can resume it where it left off with the -d chapterFiles/ option, using the folder from the last run.