Do you want to create a PDF ebook from wikipedia or want to download your favorite wikipedia page as a PDF file.Now wikipedia itself provides a solution for it.Wikipedia's new beta design helps you to do this.Click Try beta design on the top link and log on to wikipedia using your username and password,if you have one,else register for one.
Any article can be downloaded or printed as a PDF, and multiple articles can be combined into a PDF book.In the left-hand sidebar, under "Toolbox," in print/export menu you'll find a "PDF version" link that uses Wikipedia's servers to generate a highly printable PDF of any Wikipedia article, no third-party tools needed.The "Create a Book" tools, which lets you add pages in real time as you explore through Wikipedia's knowledge bases. Click "Show Book," and you can re-order your pages, give your book a title and subtitle, and save it to your account for online reference or download a PDF for printing.
Here is the screenshot of how I did it,follow the guidelines to build an ebook within minutes (depend on your internet speed).After logging into wikipedia click Create a book from Print/Export menu located on the left sidebar.Then open the page that you want to make the ebook and click the link Add the page to your book.When the page is added the link is changed to Remove the page from your book.Click this if you want to remove the page.On next of it you can see Show book (18 pages). Shows the number of pages added to your book.Refer the figure shown below,
After adding the pages and rearranging it you can download it as PDF file.This is the screenshot of an ebook that I created using this method.
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