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		<title>Offline Browsing in Firefox with Scrapbook</title>
		<link>http://swordsystems.com/2009/05/26/offline-browsing-in-firefox-with-scrapbook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Got a long plane flight or car trip?  Have several articles you&#8217;ve been wanting to read, or maybe need some online documentation that&#8217;s a subset of a big site?  The Scrapbook plugin for Firefox lets you access the latter while on the former.  It is nearly perfect for assembling an offline reading [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Got a long plane flight or car trip?  Have several articles you&#8217;ve been wanting to read, or maybe need some online documentation that&#8217;s a subset of a big site?  The <a href="http://amb.vis.ne.jp/mozilla/scrapbook/">Scrapbook</a> plugin for Firefox lets you access the latter while on the former.  It is nearly perfect for assembling an offline reading list or a library of things you want to keep indefinitely.  It has many options for capturing various parts of a page (selection, frame, etc) which is handy if you just want to save the main content and not things like ads or navigation menus.  I also like the markup features available from a toolbar that appears at the bottom of the window when viewing captured pages.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://amb.vis.ne.jp/mozilla/scrapbook/feature1.php?lang=en">online docs</a> cover the full feature set, so I won&#8217;t repeat those.  I do have a few tips for specific use cases that I came across though:
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<li>I wanted to capture an article that spanned multiple pages.  In theory, ScrapBook has a filter capability that should be available in the <span style="font-style: italic;">In-depth Capture</span> section of the <span style="font-style: italic;">Capture Detail</span> dialog.  I couldn&#8217;t access that capability, so instead I would highlight the page links for the article (you know&#8230; the &#8220;<span style="font-family:courier new;">1 2 3 Next</span>&#8221; links that are usually at the top/bottom of a page) and then use the <span style="font-style: italic;">URL Detector</span> in the <span style="font-style: italic;">Capture Multiple URLs</span> option to capture all the links in the selection.  I would then save those links to a new folder with the name of the article.  It&#8217;s not perfect since the pages are independent of each other (you can&#8217;t navigate between them), but it&#8217;s better than having to manually walk through all the pages and capture them.</li>
<li>While reading captured pages when I didn&#8217;t have network access, I would often come across links that I hadn&#8217;t captured, but wanted to mark to grab later when I was back on the net.  You can grab the link do this with the <span style="font-style: italic;">Bookmark with Scrapbook</span> option and then <span style="font-style: italic;">Capture Again</span> to pull the content when you are backonline. (Oops &#8211; correction the <span style="font-style: italic;">Bookmark with Scrapbook</span> option is not available from the context menu when you right click on a link.  I&#8217;ll have to add that to the <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/user/4743623">list of features suggestions</a> I posted for the author.)</li>
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<p>On a related note &#8211; while looking for something that provided the capabilities of Scrapbook, I found some other interesting plugins to view the page cache (<a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2489">CacheViewer</a>) and index pages you have visited so you can easily find where you read a certain factoid that you stumbled across, but can&#8217;t remember where (<a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2954">Breadcrumbs</a>).  I&#8217;ll see how much I end up using those before reviewing them.</p>
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