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

[josieb1.livejournal.com]

Hi - Thanks so much for doing this, I don't have any recs though as my Sony take RTF format perfectly.

[mremre.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I shall go over the listing for more specific requests. In general, however, how about reformatting the super epic stories first? The longer the better =)

Also, is there a way to export/copy/steal/use your macros?

[riverbella.livejournal.com]

Great! I just got a reader for X-mas and while I can get free .pdf or .rtf conversions, I can immediately upload mobi to it without waiting. I need to go back and look around a little, but from a previous visit--I would love to have an easy way to get all the stories in gekizetsu'a "Turn of the Wheel" series. Is that a possibility?

Even though I have always been a bookworm and still plan to read books, I am loving my ebook reader for the portability, the flexibility and the speed of acquisition. I suspect much fanfic will find its way onto the device, so big hugs to you for doing this!

[kannnichtfranz.livejournal.com]

Hi! This is not necessarily relevant to this post, but I wanted to say thank you for putting together the Ebook Library. I had kind of given up on reading fanfic on my iPhone -- I had installed Stanza and Calibre last year or maybe the year before, but it was too frustrating back then. Everything seems to have improved enough that I'm willing to put in the effort -- and reap the rewards again. :) You have a lot of great authors on your archive!

Unless you've got ePub, what I'm doing is mostly downloading the RTF, a little cleanup in TextEdit, save as html, edit html with TextWrangler to remove any empty paragraph tags or double linebreaks, add a tag with attribute class=chapter where I want the chapter breaks, save the html, import to Calibre, clean up metadata (add summary to "comments", add tags for fandom and pairing), convert to ePub with Calibre, send to iPhone.

I can send you the ePub formats for those fics I converted if you're interested? I'm sure they're not perfect but they're pretty decent. The fics are almost all ones I read before, but I do plan to leave some comments for the authors at your site. Wouldn't it be great if, when people published on LJ or in a fest, they would provide an ebook? (For that matter, wouldn't it be great if ebooks were standardized enough that authors would only need to bother with one format?)

Anyway! Thank you!

New Here - Glad I Found My Way Here

[johnnygirl51.livejournal.com]

Hello! I just found my way here and am so glad I did! I just got a Kindle 2 and, of course, looking for the best way to get my fanfic to it. I have already discovered Calibre and FF downloader and LOVE them, but that left me wondering about the best method for converting my collection of older fics saved as Word docs over the last few years. The macros and possible tutorial you mentioned in this thread sound like the perfect solution! Will you be posting/sharing those anytime soon? No pressure, of course :)