X-Files stories from Gossamer on Nook...

[hamrensel.livejournal.com]

For the past couple of week I have downloaded all of the favorites fics and put them on my Nook.  I have had to use Sigil on about a 1/3 of them to look right.  The ones that I'm having the most trouble with is all of my old X-Files stories that I love from Grossamer.org.  I tired to download them in txt formart but that didn't look right.  Then I tired saved them in HTML formart and just removed the background.  Again it doesn't look right.  A lot of the time the text runs too wide for my screen.  I was wondering if any one else has tired to put their old X-files fanfic on their e-reader and what they did to make it look right.

Comments

[amalthia]

I've tried to add old txt files to Word and then clean them up but if there are no paragraph breaks it's nearly impossible if the story is too long. But assuming it's a regular text file what you can do is open the txt Microsoft Word, hit the button to view hidden formatting marks add a space between paragraphs. I think I'd try and manually add paragraph html tags. There are steps to cleaning up TXT that are sort of specific if you want to do it faster. I'd have to refresh my memory at Mobile Read. I know a lot of people have gone there to ask for help converting TXT files to ebook formats.

I've only tried this with a few text files because it's A LOT of work to get them to look okay. but some of those stories I realize aren't anywhere else online. It sorts of sucks that back when everyone was using 56k modems that txt was the primary format for sharing fic online.

If you are able to save the file as html it sounds like you may have to go into the code and figure out why it's going off the page. Um not having seen the file it's hard to say what could be wrong. Can you send me the link at amalthia at gmail.com? Tomorrow when I'm home from work I can check it out and see if there is a simple fix for the problem.