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rheasilvia) wrote2013-02-08 11:52 pm
rheasilvia) wrote2013-02-08 11:52 pm
Tech rec: FanFictionDownloader
Picture the following situation. You've found a rec for a story that sounds amazing. You follow the link and have a look at the first paragraphs. Wow, this looks great - you're hooked already. You can't wait to read the rest of this story! You go to download it so you can throw it on your trusty ebook reader... And discover that the story is posted in 3455 isty bitsy chapters, on a site that doesn't allow readers to view the entire story. (I will never understand this, btw. Why on earth would anyone think this is a good way to present a story?)
Argh.*
But never fear - there is a solution! I've come across the perfect fanfic downloading tool.
FanFictionDownloader will download your story in one convenient file. All 3455 chapters of it, just like that. It works with fanfiction.net, adultfanfiction, fictionpress, mediaminer and a bunch of other archives. And it saves the story in any of 14 formats, including html, rtf, pdf, epub and mobi. It's also completely free (though the creator does accept donations).
I am in love.
In other news, I spent the day assembling shelving units, some of them with drawers featuring complicated slides. I had neither instructions nor any hint of spatial awareness to aid me, and yet I never faltered! I rule. Then I baked the best chocolate cookies in existence. A day well spent.
* Is it just me or is this a problem for other fanfic readers, too? In extreme cases, I've given up on stories entirely because of this. I don't like reading fanfic on the computer screen, and I'm not enthused about spending ages saving individual chapters and combining them into a single file, either.
Argh.*
But never fear - there is a solution! I've come across the perfect fanfic downloading tool.
FanFictionDownloader will download your story in one convenient file. All 3455 chapters of it, just like that. It works with fanfiction.net, adultfanfiction, fictionpress, mediaminer and a bunch of other archives. And it saves the story in any of 14 formats, including html, rtf, pdf, epub and mobi. It's also completely free (though the creator does accept donations).
I am in love.
In other news, I spent the day assembling shelving units, some of them with drawers featuring complicated slides. I had neither instructions nor any hint of spatial awareness to aid me, and yet I never faltered! I rule. Then I baked the best chocolate cookies in existence. A day well spent.
* Is it just me or is this a problem for other fanfic readers, too? In extreme cases, I've given up on stories entirely because of this. I don't like reading fanfic on the computer screen, and I'm not enthused about spending ages saving individual chapters and combining them into a single file, either.
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Not that I use it much because usually, the stories I'm interested in are on LJ, and even FFD can't do much with that. (AFAIK. I'd love to be wrong.)
So I don't read them at all. Bless AO3.
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For multi-chaptered stories on LJ, my solution (if there is an index) is to copy the URLs (via copy selected links, which is a Firefox extension IIRC), add ?mode=reply to the ends by search&replace to get rid of comments, save them in a txt document and load them into Free Download Manager. FDM downloads the pieces, I glue them together via Advanced File Joiner - et voilà.
Not exactly ideal, but better than manually downloading every bit. Of course, in some cases I write to the author instead to ask them if the story is available in one file...
And in some cases I don't read them at all, yeah. (This also goes if the story is only available in one file in PDF format, which is - gah.)
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