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I turned a 24 chapter CAD history site into an EPUB in a couple of hours

He found a 24 chapter site on CAD history that would once have taken days of fiddling to convert by hand. Working with GPT for a couple of hours, he turned it into a clean offline EPUB for his phone, with linked footnotes and captioned illustrations.

How it works

  1. Finds a 24 chapter CAD history site
  2. Works back and forth with GPT for a couple of hours
  3. Gets a clean offline EPUB with linked footnotes and captioned illustrations

Why it’s worth knowing

Turning a whole site into a phone friendly EPUB with linked footnotes used to mean days of fiddling by hand. A couple of hours of back and forth with GPT got it done.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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