LDS Scriptures in Microsoft OneNote

30 Jul

Does anybody know of a way to import the online version of the scriptures into OneNote? I use OneNote extensively for my gospel study and love the hyperlink capability (not to mention the ability to tag, highlight, annotate and so much more). I have been slowly manually copying and pasting over the scriptures into OneNote, but it is a slow process… I am still debating about what would be best, but here are the two options I am thinking of.

1. Create an offline HTML backup of the entire scriptures.lds.org with a tool like WinHTTrack. Then try to edit the HTML and add tags that will put the books in separate sections and the chapters as pages and then find a way to import. I don’t really know how to code so this is proving to be a bit hard, and then I’m not even sure how to import a bunch of HTML at once.

Potentially this would be the best if I could change all the href link to lds.org and make them specific to the local copy in OneNote.

2. Find a complete PDF version of the scriptures and use a tool to import them all at once again. Or even chapter by chapter. I am a bit more inclined to this one because then I still have to physically navigate to the page I am looking for (helping me to remember where things are instead of instantly linking there). But again, I can not find a complete copy of the scriptures in PDF format. Anyone have any ideas?

If you think your readership would have any ideas, please post a link back to this article. Thanks for all your help!

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6 Responses for "LDS Scriptures in Microsoft OneNote"

Ryan September 11th, 2007 at 3:50 am 1
I’ve got most of the scrips in OneNote 2007 on my site for download. They’re even formatted nicely. http://www.ryanteeter.com/?page_id=41

Hope this helps!
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Greg July 24th, 2008 at 5:17 pm 3
This is what I did to get the scriptures into a pdf:

Use HTTrack to copy the online scriptures to your computer. You can find it at http://www.httrack.com/.

You’ll want to scan http://scriptures.lds.org/en/ and under “set options” use the following scan rules:

+*.png +*.gif +*.jpg -*.css -*.js -mime:application/foobar
-*/*listen*
-*/*server*
-*/*jst*
-*/*helps*
-*/*/gs/*
-*/*biblemaps*
-*/*chmaps*
-*/*biblephotos*
-*/*chphotos*
-*/*search*
-*/*options*
-*/*help*
-*/*-*
-*/*/dc/*/**
-*/*/bd/*
-*/*/tg/*
-*/*/in/*

That will leave only the scriptures (no index, dictionary, photos, guides, etc.) in order to make the final pdf a manageable size. Also under limits, set max mirroring depth to 4. That will prevent all the footnotes from being copied. The footnote links in the verses still work, they’ll just send you to the online footnotes in your browser. The other links will move you around the pdf.

That should take an hour or so to download. Then you can use adobe acrobat (or the trial version of acrobat if you don’t have it) to make a pdf of the site that is now located on your hard disk. After opening acrobat hit ctrl shift O and enter the location of the index web page. Select “get entire site.” You can change the font size, and formatting of the pdf you’ll make under settings. It will take 45 min or so for acrobate to make your pdf.

The pdf I made is just under 45 MB. Now I can use my tablet to read my scriptures and save all the ink highlighting and annotating I make (I use PDF Annotator from GRAHL software). Navigating through the scriptures is very quick within the pdf. If you click on a link that is outside of the pdf (like a footnote) it will open your web browser so you can still access that info.
Jeff VanDrimmelen July 30th, 2008 at 5:06 am 4
Wow Greg! I have used HTTrack before to make a backup of all our family blogs, but this never occurred to me before! Thanks for the great insight!!
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geowizrd November 29th, 2009 at 7:06 pm 6
now available in printed page layout format at

http://lds.org/gospellibrary/pdfindex/0,7777,579-1,00.html