There are plenty of read-it-later style applications that save web documents to a special application on your tablet or smartphone, but what if you want to load them onto your e-reader instead? There’s a Google Chrome extension for that. DotEPUB will allow one-click saving of web content into EPUB files that you can load into your EPUB-compatible reader. (Kindle owners are out of luck.)
Of course, it’s been possible to do the same thing with Instapaper plus Calibre for a while now, but that does add an intermediate step.
(We did mention this a year ago, but it’s such a useful tool that seeing a mention on Lifehacker is a great excuse to bring it up again.)
There is also a bookmarklet of the same name (see: http://dotepub.com/) that works on any web browser.
dotEPUB’s native Kindle support is scheduled for 2012. Stay tuned, I’m working on it!
I’ve been using the bookmarklet to use dotEpub with Mobile safari on my ipad for a long time now. The resulting ePub files work great with Stanza and iBooks and a few others. Doesn’t take more than two taps with most non graphics heavy web pages.