I just found about about TextEdit being a Mac program. :) I'll keep looking for Windows, but for the people I know who have Macs I'll mention this one to them.
I'm hoping more authors wake up one day and realize how much LJ sucks as a place to archive their fics...but until then..I've been looking into something like ?style=mine but instead ?style=ebook or something the hard part is I can't muck about with their code. so anything posted to LJ and only LJ it looks like merging by hand is the best method for getting the stories in a single file.
I haven't read that Merlin story you mentioned 99.9% of the merlin fic I do read is cannon fic.
Now as for my approach to authors, lets just put it this way. If I had to wait for them to come to me the archive would have at most 15 stories. I've had to contact 99.9% of the authors on the website. I think Vathara and Bayre are the only two authors that are currently uploading their own fics. The hard part is that most authors don't know how to use FTP, HTML, efiction, and Calibre to convert their fics, let alone all four. And most don't think to write and let me know if I have permission to host their works. So I have make almost all contact. (with of course a very few exceptions)
This is the big challenge i've also had with finding admins to help me run the archive. I'm adding as much as possible but I'm just one person and it does take a lot of work to contact the author, merge stories, convert to RTF/LRF/Epub/Mobi, and then upload to the site.
Now as for artwork, I normally incorporate the art into the story if I'm converting to LRF/Epub/Mobi. I do write to the artists to ask permission most of the time, but when I first started I kind of forgot to do that with a lot of fics. So I don't sweat it. I think the general consensus is artists like to be asked permission too. :) I've never had an artist say no to keeping the art with the story.
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I'm hoping more authors wake up one day and realize how much LJ sucks as a place to archive their fics...but until then..I've been looking into something like ?style=mine but instead ?style=ebook or something the hard part is I can't muck about with their code. so anything posted to LJ and only LJ it looks like merging by hand is the best method for getting the stories in a single file.
I haven't read that Merlin story you mentioned 99.9% of the merlin fic I do read is cannon fic.
Now as for my approach to authors, lets just put it this way. If I had to wait for them to come to me the archive would have at most 15 stories. I've had to contact 99.9% of the authors on the website. I think Vathara and Bayre are the only two authors that are currently uploading their own fics. The hard part is that most authors don't know how to use FTP, HTML, efiction, and Calibre to convert their fics, let alone all four. And most don't think to write and let me know if I have permission to host their works. So I have make almost all contact. (with of course a very few exceptions)
This is the big challenge i've also had with finding admins to help me run the archive. I'm adding as much as possible but I'm just one person and it does take a lot of work to contact the author, merge stories, convert to RTF/LRF/Epub/Mobi, and then upload to the site.
Now as for artwork, I normally incorporate the art into the story if I'm converting to LRF/Epub/Mobi. I do write to the artists to ask permission most of the time, but when I first started I kind of forgot to do that with a lot of fics. So I don't sweat it. I think the general consensus is artists like to be asked permission too. :) I've never had an artist say no to keeping the art with the story.