FLAG

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

Has anyone used the Fanfiction Lightweight Automated Grabber (FLAG)?

How does it compare to Graffer and Fanfiction Downloader in terms of ease of use and the appearance of the finished e-book?

I use Calibre to put .epub files on my Sony PRS-505 if that makes a difference.

Comments

[kimberlyfdr.livejournal.com]

I'm interested to hear this as well. I've only used Fanfiction Downloader when I need it, but prefer when authors provide ready-made PDFs.

A random question for you, since I use a Sony as well, why do you prefer the .epub format over PDFs? Just curious.

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

A random question for you, since I use a Sony as well, why do you prefer the .epub format over PDFs?

I just don't like the way PDFs look, and they're very difficult to edit if there's something wrong. EPUBs look cleaner to me, and I can quickly edit them in Sigil if the formatting is wonky.

[kimberlyfdr.livejournal.com]

Cool, thanks for responding :D I just got in the habit of PDF-ing everything I read, so I never explored other formats thoroughly. I should, though.

[mremre.livejournal.com]

Also, PDFs take more 'processing' when displaying on my PRS-505 (aka battery and time). And depending on how the PDF was originally formatted, pages, spaces, paragraphs, font sizes, etc all come out a little bit off. And resizing on the fly is a PAIN.

IMHO epubs make far, far better ebooks. PDF is for when I want a deadtree printout.

Never used FLAG so I have nothing to say there. Is there a compelling reason you are switching to FLAG, like FFDownloader not supporting the archives you use? No need to install new if you don't have to, after all! For my part, I will always reconvert epub in Calibre so my CSS stylesheets kick in, so I don't actually care what the various archives declare to be 'epubs'--I'll fix them when I get them, and a PDF won't let me do that.

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

Is there a compelling reason you are switching to FLAG

I don't know that I am switching to FLAG. I just heard about it for the first time the other day. I don't like Graffer, and ever since the last update, the e-books produced by FF Downloader have had some odd formatting issues. I've been having to edit them in Sigil. I'm willing to keep doing that if I have to, but if FLAG is easy to use and outputs a nice looking e-book, that would save me some effort.