You might have already read about the newest Gmail lab feature – Turn email into a Google Doc.  Now think how you can use it to create your own e-book, Magazine or simple a blog archive in word or pdf format.
Assumptions:
  • You have enabled labs features in Gmail.
  • You have enabled latest lab feature – Gmail docs
  • You have subscribed to your own blog newsletter through Feedburner or Feedblitz (though it doesn’t matter which service you use)
Steps:
  1. Open the email newsletter(s) you want to create eBook/Magazine from.
  2. Click on ‘Create a Document’ link in the sidebar.
  3. The Google document is created in new window from the email you selected.
  4. Remove the unnecessary links, text, advertisements, extra space and useless frames to get rid of the clutter.
  5. Add headers, footers etc. to make it more professional.
  6. Rename the file to suit your ebook/magazine requirement.
  7. Save the document.
  8. Download the file as pdf and/or Word document to circulate it as eBook.
  9. You may even want to upload this pdf file to your own server to keep a backup or all your newsletters.
  10. Repeat these steps to create an ebook of all the popular posts of your blog and compile them together to create a big ebook. 
  11. Similar steps are required if you want to create Monthly newsletter or Monthly archive of your blog posts so that your readers can download them as pdf to read it offline.
  12. This ebook you can promote on your blog and provide to your readers for free (if you want).
All the above steps are shown in the following screen cast:
Hopefully you like the idea of creating ebook, magazine and blog archive from Gmail.
Thanks to the Gmail team to enable this really important feature. This way, I don’t have to go into the hassles of copy and paste to do the simple stuff – create a document from my important emails.
What do you say?  Do you like the idea?  And hey, you can download the very document mentioned in the screencast here and see yourself.
Download here…

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