But how do I organize it all?

[vickyblueeyez.livejournal.com]

 Hello everyone. I'm new to this comm, ebooks and ereaders, not fanfic though.  A few months ago I went into a fanfic panic because I heard delicious was shutting down. I backed up what I could to diggo and was ok. It wasn't until I was tagging and adding descriptions to some old fic in delicious that I realized some of the fic was gone. The journal was either deleted or purged, friends only, etc. That's when I got the idea of saving all of my favorite fics. I liked the idea of having my fic library anywhere I go. Instead of buying a Nook, Kindle, or Sony ereader, I purchased an iPad. At first, I looked for a program that would save and convert webpages into PDFs in a huge batch. Nope. It looks like I have to convert all my fic manually (all 400+) of it. FanfictionDownloader saved me a lot of time. ArchieveofOurOwn allows downloads of their fanfiction as well. So does ksarchive (kirk/spock fanfiction archive) and kmarchive (kirk/mccoy fanfiction archive).

Now I have all these PDFs all over the place. I manually added ratings, my own custom genre/category tag (by ships: kirk/spock, sylar/peter, etc). That was the only way I could keep my ships separate in iTunes. Then someone told me to download calibre. With that, I changed titles, authors, added tags, etc. The downside is that when I sent fic from there to my iTunes, it sent it by author. I group things by fandom, ship, trope, other so sorting by author did not help. Due to that, I haven't bothered syncing any more calibre info to my iTunes and went back to doing it the old way with my genre/categories.

I get ready for iPad and it tells me to download iBooks to read my PDFs. I hate this program only because it's not organized the way I want it. I can't organize or search by tag, descriptions don't show up or ratings. You get category, author and title. You can make collections (such as by ship) but you still only get titles, authors and category. Useless if you have over 400 titles and can't remember story content. I tried stanza and even though it synced with my calibre, it still will not download the content from the web to my iPad.

So my question is, is there some app or program that I can use on my iPad to organize my pdfs (by rating, tag, see descriptions, genre, etc) and read them?

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[josieb1.livejournal.com]

If I remember correctly with Stanza you don't load anything in iTunes, you put the stories in a folder on your pc and then when your iPad is connected you go to the Apps page for your iPad, scroll down, past the apps, then you get to a box which says 'these apps will allow you to load items onto the ipad' or something like that. Select Stanza, which should be listed, this is on the left, then in the blank box on the right you select something which allows you to navigate to your folder, you select your stories, and you can load tons at the same time, and they pop onto that box. It's something like this (it is 1am here, I am in bed and writing from memory)

Is that what you are doing to import your books into Stansa?

[vickyblueeyez.livejournal.com]

nope. I plug in ipad to the comp, go to apps (search, categories, top rated) and didn't find that button you were talking about. I also went into settings and didn't find it.

[vickyblueeyez.livejournal.com]

nvm found it in itunes in the app section and when I tried to add a book, it froze my itunes. I'll try again

for some odd reason

[vickyblueeyez.livejournal.com]

I tell in itunes under the app file sharing thing, to add pdf to stanza. it will show up in the list and then disappear. when I go back to try to add it, i select the file and it doesn't show up in the list

Re: for some odd reason

[josieb1.livejournal.com]

I have Stanza on my iPhone, it's been ages since I loaded anything, let me have a go and I'll pm you.