Recently, I wanted to create epubs of some reading material, specifically some Wordpress-hosted blogs. Rather than implementing a separate script for each blog I wanted an epub from, I wrote a tool to figure it all out for me: trivialpub.
I’ve read and enjoyed parts of Michael O. Church’s take on Venkatesh Rao’s Gervais Principle, but he took his blog offline before I was able to read them all. I decided to snag copies of all of the posts from the Wayback Machine and turn them into an ebook for convenient reading. This appears to be a solved problem thanks to this handy little Python library, pypub, but just in case it winds up being useful to someone here is what I did.