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Osman Blunt
Updated Jan 2020 to add guide about custom columns for chapters and for multiple series, telling FFF to scrape more kinds of metadata, and adding them all to your title page or an updated-metadata log at the end.
I was asked on Discord for a tutorial about using Calibre for fanfic in general! Please feel welcome to share or link this wherever, because it was more work than I realized it would be when I started and I want it to be useful to people. Also feel free to ask any clarifying questions! I enabled anon comments and everything.
Firstly you want to download Calibre, if you haven't already. In calibre, click on the arrow next to the preferences button, and select 'Get plugins to enhance Calibre'. Search uninstalled plugins for FanFicFare (henceforth FFF because I'm lazy) and install it. You'll have to restart Calibre for it to take effect.
Once you have FFF installed, click on the arrow next to its button and select 'Configure FFF'. In the Customize FFF window, I'll walk you through the options I use and what they do (and any of the ones I don't use that I'm familiar with).
You want to select your default output format--mine is epub, because I read in the calibre ebook viewer. If you're going to send your downloaded fics to an ereader (an exercise I cannot help you with, because I've never done it, sorry), you'll want to select whatever is the appropriate format--mobi for kindles, for instance. Next one down is what the default action FFF will take if you ask it to check for updates on an existing story. I have mine set to 'Update EPUB if new chapters', because if it updates the file unconditionally to what's online, I'm vulnerable to losing fic if the author deletes chapters but leaves the story ostensibly on the site. (In cases of an author deleting chapters and reposting revised versions, I tend to delete the URL from the copy I have so that FFF won't register it as an extant duplicate, change the title to append Archive or (Old Version), and download the new version as its own separate file, but that's because I'm neurotic. If you're not paranoid about this, you can go for Update EPUB Always.)
I have default update calibre metadata checked, because I want to know about new tags if they're added. I have default update epub cover when updating epub checked, because I have covers generated with the tags and wordcount on them (more on that later), and I want them up to date. I have Default background metadata checked because I have all my usernames and passwords and isadult:true setup in personal.ini for every site I download from, but if you don't, you likely want to leave it unchecked, because sites that require registration or adult confirmation will silently fail with it checked if you don't have them set up in personal.ini (more on personal.ini in the next tab).
Next section of this tab! I do not have delete other existing formats checked, because if I've gone through the effort of generating another format I presumably want it for something, but if you think you're going to be converting into other formats for transfer to another device and want to make sure you only retain converted copies that are up to date, maybe you want to check it. I EMPHATICALLY recommend ticking 'keep existing tags when updating metadata', if you want ANY kind of imposed organization on your fic at all. I have a 'FanFiction' tag added automatically to all fic I download (more on that in the personal.ini tab, again), and I also go through and add some standardized ship tags so I can search for, say, HPDM and find fics with Harry/Draco from both FFN and AO3, which have drastically different ship tag formatting that I can't otherwise easily do in one search. (I suppose I could manually construct and then save a search for every variation of the ship tag instead.) Anyway, if you want to add any kind of categorization yourself, tags you want to search on that you think are missing (I also have an 'Undead Husband(s)' tag, for instance), CHECK THIS BOX OR YOU'LL LOSE WORK AND DATA.
I don't use the series anthology function, so I can't tell you what to do with the next box. I have check for changed story URL checked because I don't want that to be silent, and usually when I get prompts to update the URL it's for overwriting/merging AO3 and FFN copies of fic, which I don't want to do, I like keeping separate instances because what if something is different and, as previously mentioned, I'm neurotic. I don't have search inside ebooks for story URL checked and I'm not positive what the utility of it is--maybe if you have a bunch of fics downloaded with AO3's native downloading that you want to update metadata on, that'll find the URLs for them automatically? Probably useful if you have that kind of thing.
GUI Options section! I have take URLs from clipboard ticked because I have no particular reason not to, which just fills in any valid fic url in your clipboard into the box for entering URLs to download. (More on that later.) I have default to update when books selected, which means that if I select ebooks and hit the main FFF button, it'll pull up the dialog to check them for updates. Else, it'll open the window for URLs for new fic, which I get to with an extra click from the dropdown--up to you which you prefer. I literally just realized there was an option to keep the URLs window on top of other windows and immediately ticked it, because that'll be useful for dragging urls into it from open fic tabs. Show an estimated time left, why not.
Post processing options: I have none of these boxes ticked, and I have calculate word count set to 'yes, always'. I have no idea how to use the 'mark updated books' stuff, can't help you there. I don't trust 'smarten punctuation' to not break shit. If you want things in two formats, you can tick automatically convert new books, I have no real use for it.
This is where you want to plug in your username and password for whatever sites to be able to download archive-locked fics. If you're paranoid, you could make an account specifically for this purpose, so you're not risking any data, because this is putting that information into a plaintext file on your computer that could be hacked or whatever I guess. I am lazy, so I mostly just use my regular accounts, though on AO3 and FFN I have accounts specifically for subscribing to everything I download so it updates by email, and I use those instead. You also want to set is_adult:true, or you will have you click 'yes I am an adult' in a confirmation dialog for every single explicit fic you download from any website (like AO3) that has a confirmation for such things and I promise you you do not want to do that, it is annoying as fuck. .
The another thing I have in personal.ini is a categorization tag for all fic. Under the '## This section will override anything in the system defaults' section under the usernames section, I have 'extratags_label:FanFiction'. This adds the tag 'FanFiction' to all fic I download, which lets me do things with virtual libraries that I'll talk about later or possibly in another tutorial because this is long as hell already. Regardless, this allows you to separate out fic from anything else you may have in calibre (for instance, I have a bunch of issues of literary magazines that I don't need or want to be looking at when I'm looking for some nice HPLV or whatever.).
Update Jan 2020: I do much more with personal.ini now! I have custom update logs on the ends of fic (which a friend helped me with the setup of, many thanks to lethe), more metadata on the title pages, and most involved-ly, I have my new multiseries column.
Calibre only supports one series in the series field, so fics on AO3 with more than one series applied to them were having important information lost and I was having to open the website to figure out which fics were in continuity with each other, because I follow multiple authors that use organizational as well as continuity-based series, and the ones of less use to me were often the ones getting picked up. So I decided to set up a column that would scrape all series data in, even if it wouldn't work as series tags, so I wouldn't be losing metadata. (Note: technically, it's possible for me to still miss series metadata, because I only set it up for like... ten series? You have to set up each entry manually and I got tired of typing them and I really doubt I'm ever going to near that limit, but just for the record, it does exist.)
FFF supports what I'm aiming to do, but it takes adding a lot of things to personal.ini that aren't in the very basic settings it comes with. You have to set it up to recognize and scrape the additional metadata, first--here's the code I use to do that:
And here is my multiseries column, as mentioned above. It takes all of the series entries as defined above and feeds them into a single tag-style field. This includes the numbers, so you can't do #multiseries:"=Lightning [2]"-style searches by clicking on it like you can with regular series series:"=Lightning"-style searches, because the tag "Lightning [2]" is not the same as the tag "Lightning [1]", but other types of search work just fine, and it means ordering data is preserved, so I'm fine with that. This is the personal-ini code that sets up that column:
Of course you can delete any of these that you don't want on your own log page. The 'default' version my friend helped me with ends at 'warnings'. For some reason series entries past 03 don't work, it's a mystery to me.
Okay, so the way I have this set up is useful for me, but it may not be what you want or what is useful for you. I'm going to run through how I have it set up, if you're interested in emulating it, but if you want a different kind of covers I'm not going to be of much use.
The first thing required here is to download and install the Generate Cover plugin, in the same way as we installed the FFF plugin at the start. The relevant settings in Calibre for this setup are Update Calibre Cover: Always and Generate Calibre Cover: Always. Select the radio button for Plugin Generate Cover rather than Calibre Generate Cover. I don't tick 'generate covers only for new books' because I want them to update. I do tick inject/update the cover inside the epub, because... why not really. In Generate Cover (Plugin) Settings, select your cover design preset for Default, and if you want a different preset for any other site, you can select it--I have one selected that uses a smaller font size for the tags for fics from AO3, because fics from AO3 can have way more tags and I was having issues where the tags would spill over the region for them on the cover and fill the entire cover on top of all the other text and it looked like garbage.
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