{"id":646,"date":"2009-11-14T16:13:07","date_gmt":"2009-11-14T23:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/?p=646"},"modified":"2009-11-29T14:45:13","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T21:45:13","slug":"that-which-is-holy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2009\/11\/14\/that-which-is-holy\/","title":{"rendered":"That Which Is Holy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/7\/79\/Collection_Extension_-_Create_a_book_box.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/7\/79\/Collection_Extension_-_Create_a_book_box.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"413\" height=\"45\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia has a new capability to create <a title=\"Wikipedia books\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:PrefixIndex\/Wikipedia:Books\/\">books<\/a> out of articles.\u00a0 For example, a friend is on a trip this week to the Holy Land.\u00a0 Based on her itinerary, I created a <a title=\"That Which Is Holy\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/User:Penalba2000\/Books\/That_which_is_holy\">collection of articles<\/a> that I thought might be relevant as background for her.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s quick and easy to do; you turn on the <a title=\"Book creator function\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Special:Book&amp;bookcmd=book_creator&amp;referer=Main+Page\">book creator function<\/a> and then add links to your book.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/f\/f3\/Colelction_Extension_-_Hover_and_add.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/f\/f3\/Colelction_Extension_-_Hover_and_add.png\" alt=\"Add articles to your book in Wikipedia\" width=\"196\" height=\"46\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an option to export to .pdf, Open Office format (.odt), and even to a physical book publisher for a fee.\u00a0 My book, which took only a few minutes to create, clocked in at over 500 pages and would have spanned two physical volumes.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s worth it for the printed version &#8212; mine would have cost more than $50 &#8212; but for something like a Kindle or a netbook, an easy-to-read .pdf version would be a useful reference to have, I think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wikipedia has a new capability to create books out of articles.\u00a0 For example, a friend is on a trip this week to the Holy Land.\u00a0 Based on her itinerary, I created a collection of articles that I thought might be &hellip; 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