Current Project on Ebook Library

[amalthia]

Since I learned how to use Macros in Microsoft Word 2007 I've been slowly but surely creating LRF/Mobi/and epub versions of my absolute favorite stories hosted at the Ebook Library as well as most of the stories posted recently. This is the reason for long delays between updates besides the holidays. My current project is converting all the Top Ten most read fics at the archive, however that will not take long since many already have all four ebook formats.

My question/challenge to the community is does anyone have any specific conversion requests for stories already listed on the archive that are currently only in RTF format?

For anyone that adds a request I'll honor it if you leave feedback/review at the author's post at the Ebook Library. :)

Leave a link here leading to your review of the story and I'll get it converted in the order in which it was requested. :)

Comments

[amalthia]

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.

[kannnichtfranz.livejournal.com]

I wonder if a bookmarklet would help? Readability is how I read pretty much all fics now -- even fics at archives:

http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/

It actually builds in a print button -- if only it would build in an ebook button!

Speaking of which... the Mac also has a "print to PDF" function -- that would be another place to build in a converter. (people are trying: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26329 )

As for that Merlin fic -- you should give it a chance! I'm not too deep into Merlin, but I'm glad I watched the first season of it just to have a context for that fic. Just in case -- part 1 of 3 is here: http://moonythestrals.livejournal.com/59414.html . Or, I could email you the ePub. ;)

And actually -- it seems that fic doesn't have art after all. It has some links I didn't check if I kept, but they don't seem that important. The artwork actually seems to have been done by the person who turned it into a podfic. Maybe I'll ask the author if she's willing for her fic to be in your archive...

[amalthia]

send the epub for that one story. :) I can convert it to LRF and read it on my device. (calibre is awesome)

I've tried readability but it won't save what you view as is...I tested so many options online and coudl not find anything. it was frustrating. Bookit comes the closest but the creator went awol and it won't convert the selected text into an ebook like it's supposed to.