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class="noprint"></div> <div id="content" class="mw-body" role="main"> <a id="top"></a> <div id="siteNotice"></div> <div class="mw-indicators"> </div> <h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" lang="en">Book creator</h1> <div id="bodyContent" class="mw-body-content"> <div id="contentSub"></div> <div id="jump-to-nav" class="mw-jump"> Jump to: <a href="#mw-head">navigation</a>, <a href="#p-search">search</a> </div> <div id="mw-content-text"><p><big>With the <i>book creator</i> you can create a book containing wiki pages of your choice. You can export the book in different formats (for example PDF or ODF) or order a printed copy.</big> </p><div style="margin: 10px 0;"><div class="collection-button ok"><a href="/web/20150215203751/http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Book&bookcmd=start_book_creator&referer=Main+Page">Start book creator</a></div><div class="collection-button cancel"><a href="/web/20150215203751/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page" title="Main Page" rel="nofollow">Cancel</a></div><div style="clear: both;"></div></div><p><big><i>See <a href="/web/20150215203751/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Books" title="Help:Books">Help:Books</a> for more information.</i></big> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Using_the_book_creator">Using the book creator</span></h2> <p>After the <i>book creator</i> has been enabled, the box as seen below is shown above each wiki page. </p> <table> <tr> <td> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:714px;"><a href="/web/20150215203751/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Collection_Extension_-_Create_a_book_box.png" class="image"><img alt="" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150215203751im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Collection_Extension_-_Create_a_book_box.png" width="712" height="78" class="thumbimage" data-file-width="712" data-file-height="78"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20150215203751/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Collection_Extension_-_Create_a_book_box.png" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>The book creator interface</div></div></div> </td></tr> </table> <dl><dt><i>Add this page to your book</i></dt> <dd>Adds the currently viewed article (page) to your book.</dd> <dt><i>Show book</i></dt> <dd>Opens a new page which will show a list of all articles (pages) that you added to your book. On that page, you can <b>change the order</b> of the articles in your book and <b>structure</b> them using chapters. Further, you can <b>download</b> the books as a <a href="/web/20150215203751/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF" title="PDF" class="mw-redirect">PDF</a> or <a href="/web/20150215203751/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument" title="OpenDocument">ODF</a>, or order a <b>printed book</b>.</dd> <dt><i>Suggest pages</i></dt> <dd>This tool analyzes the current set of pages in your book and <b>suggests</b> articles that might be also relevant to the overall topic of your book. This tool allows to create books <b>quickly</b>.</dd> <dt><i>Disable</i></dt> <dd>This will <b>disable</b> the <i>Book creator</i> and <b>delete</b> your book (unless you saved it first).</dd></dl> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Adding_pages_without_visiting_them">Adding pages without visiting them</span></h3> <p>A quick way to add pages is to simply hover on a linked article. If you wait about one second, a small box will pop up with the message "Add linked wiki page to your book". Click on this link, and the linked article will be added to your book. </p> <table> <tr> <td> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:385px;"><a href="/web/20150215203751/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Collection_Extension_-_Hover_and_add.png" class="image"><img alt="" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150215203751im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/Collection_Extension_-_Hover_and_add.png" width="383" height="90" class="thumbimage" data-file-width="383" data-file-height="90"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20150215203751/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Collection_Extension_-_Hover_and_add.png" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Hovering your mouse over links is a convenient way to add pages to your book</div></div></div> </td></tr> </table> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Adding_whole_categories">Adding whole categories</span></h3> <p>If you are viewing a <a href="/web/20150215203751/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CATEGORY" title="Wikipedia:CATEGORY" class="mw-redirect">category page</a>, you can add all the pages in that category at once. The <i>Add this page to your book</i> link will have changed into <i>Add this category to your book</i>. Click on this new link, and all the articles in that category will be added to your book. Relevant categories may be found at the very bottom of Wikipedia articles. 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