This, then, will result in the display of just text files in one’s folders!… AND, ALL SHOWING BUT 1K AS THE SIZE OF THE TEXT FILE UNDER WINDOWS’ EXPLORER’S, “VIEWING OPTION (AND, IN CONTRAST TO THE 1000S OF KILOBYTES FOR S-I-N-G-L-E WEBPAGES SAVED THROUGH WINDOWS’ ‘TOOL’!)”. To close… the simplest method that I have discovered to overcome these issues, is to avoid using Windows’ “tool” altogether, and to simply save the URL of a page of interest within Notepad as a text file (and maybe, the URL’s homepage’s Contact-Us URL), and to either post the title of the article as the title of the saved Notepad text file by itself, or add a bracketed, “(web)”, at the end of one’s title (to easily associate/ identify which text files are specifically Saved website webpages of interest… the title of which, can simply be called up by merely entering a portion of it under Windows’ “Start search bar”!). There’s also the problem of getting a “Time Out message” popup when the page takes too long to display, because some combination of site features have changed so significantly afterupon one’s first download way back when, that one’s Saved Page is no longer recallable… but, meanwhile– all the while– you’ve got this “antique cyber furniture” now taking up space within part of your hard drive’s “cyber living room”– or “cyber bathroom”! And being met with a Windows popup cartoon character and notification, is… well… ridiculous! There are two problems (among others) that are systemic with this “gift”… the first, is not knowing what one is downloading (given the curious size of some of these “pages”), and whether tracking cookies are being appended to each page… and, the second, is the disk space that is wiped out after downloading (and again, given the size of some of these pages). To the issue, one of the dumbest tools that Microsoft came up with for Windows was their “gift” of the ability to save a webpage, through their “Save Page As” option, under “Files (i.e., the ‘Files’ displayed at the top left of one’s Browser screen)”. If you want to read the saved page on your Kindle device, you need to convert it to MOBI using Calibre or a similar program.
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