Converting WK book club vocab sheets to PDF or HTML

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I’m about to start reading ARIA. The WK book club vocabulary spreadsheet for volume 1 looks great and I definitely need it. :sweat_smile: I’m considering writing a script to convert the sheet (or any sheet in roughly the same format) to a PDF or HTML file that would be more convenient to read on my phone. I just wanted to check that no one has done this already (didn’t find anything) and ask if others would find something like this useful too. Feature requests like ideas on how the output should be formatted are welcome too. I’m not planning to spend a lot of time on this, and I might not get around to doing it at all, but if I do it might be possible to make something that’s useful for others with minimal extra effort.

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Not really able to address this question, but if you’ve got questions about the reading itself, you can post them in the threads, and I’ll see them. As will others. :slightly_smiling_face:

Assuming the threads haven’t auto-locked. They might be old enough that they pre-dated the extension of the auto-lock timer…

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Right, I wasn’t sure where to post this. I thought Book Clubs might be for actual book club threads only, and although I’m currently interested in one specific vocab sheet, the same script could probably be used for any of them, so the ARIA thread didn’t seem appropriate either.

The main audience would be people like me who weren’t around for the book club but want to use the vocab sheet. I think there might be many of us but I’m not sure!

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It’s in the File menu on the top left of the google sheet. File - Download as … and you choose what you want. The vocab sheets have a certain width which will need some scrolling on the phone, though.

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Ah, sorry, I should have been more specific: by converting to PDF or HTML I meant generating something that’s nicely formatted for viewing on a phone so that you don’t need to scroll. :slight_smile: So basically take the spreadsheet and output something that looks (for example) like this: https://crystalhuntersmanga.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/nj-reading-guide-book-1-v1.pdf
I haven’t checked if there’s an even easier way to do this, but what I had in mind was writing a small python script. (A slightly more ambitious solution would be to make a web app that lets you upload a vocab sheet in some format and gives you something like the above.)

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