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Journal vrmlguy's Journal: Turning someone's blog into a flat file

I recently found an interesting (and relatively small) blog, and to get caught up I'd like to read the whole thing chronologically. Like most blogs, its archive sorts each month's entries from newest to oldest, which forces me to do a lot of scrolling if I want to read them the other way. Also, navigating is a bit of a hassle without first/previous/next/last links at the top and/or bottom of each page. What I'd really like is a way to turn the whole thing into an ODF/PDF/whatever file and read it offline. It isn't my blog, so I can't get any database dumps or install any plug-ins; it looks like any solution needs to screen-scrape. I've looked at Blurb, LJBook, Lulu and even the departed Blogbinders, but none of them do what I need. The only FOSS solution seems to be xhtml-css.com, but it also falls well short of what I need. Before I bite the bullet and roll my own, can anyone point me to a solution? Thanks.
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