# ePub Creator

> ePub Creator is a WebExtension that creates ePub e-books from web pages and 'overdrive.com's online reader.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/epub](https://chrome-stats.com/d/epub)

## Overview

- **ID:** `epub`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** NiklasG
- **Category:** feeds-news-blogging,other
- **Daily users:** 1,100
- **Weekly downloads:** 22
- **Rating:** 4.18 / 5 (28 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.5.7
- **Last updated:** 2022-11-07
- **First published:** 2017-01-24
- **Size:** 201 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-07
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/epub/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/NiklasGollenstede/epub-creator/issues](https://github.com/NiklasGollenstede/epub-creator/issues)

## Description

**ePub Creator** is a powerful Chrome extension that enables users to convert web pages and library e-books from OverDrive's online reader into offline ePub e-books. It supports any webpage accessible in Firefox's Reader Mode, ensuring most text-based sites can be saved for offline reading. For OverDrive books, it parses the content directly from the online reader, repackaging and optimizing it into an ePub format, although image sizing might vary for some content types like comics.

To use, simply open the desired webpage or OverDrive book, click the extension icon, and wait as the content is processed. The extension uses Mozilla's Readability.js for content extraction, ensuring clean and reader-friendly output. Users should ensure that saving the content complies with local copyright laws. The extension requires permissions for displaying notifications, accessing site data upon user action, and managing its own popups.

## Rankings

- #3,147 — Overall
- #172 — Feeds, News & Blogging
- #16 — create
- #29 — overdrive
- #33 — booking
- #115 — book

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `notifications`
- `sessions`
- `activeTab`
- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

Users praise ePub Creator for being simple, one‑click, and effective at capturing images and media from many webpage types. Frequent complaints are sporadic omissions of page content, occasional breakage or Firefox compatibility errors, and missing advanced features (batching chapters, styling, reliable TOC). These strengths and recurring issues are the dominant themes across reviews.

### Pros

- Simple and easy to use — one‑click conversion/read-mode to ePub
- Good at capturing images, links and embedded media from webpages
- Works across a wide variety of webpage types and languages
- Generally reliable for producing readable ePub files from Reader mode

### Cons

- Sometimes omits large parts of a page (missing text or code snippets)
- Intermittent failures/compatibility bugs (stops working, Reader mode changes, or crypto errors)
- No batch/multi‑chapter merging or advanced style/customization options
- Table of Contents sometimes broken; some pages/images may be excluded

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/epub)