Epubs

[Alex]

Epubs are basically zip files of .html files, but where each file is read as a chapter... sooo.... I was wondering if someone could do (or has done) a little tool to take what deffnetizer outputs and creates an epub... combo it and you can get basic epubs (with no client-side format additions, since most e-reader programs I've used ignore most formatting. Horrible when you've set background to black but the files set the body text to black too and your 'set default font color' doesn't override those... GRR. bad for reading at night.

in my mind, I see the combined program, basically so you have local copies saved in templates of choice, and a epub to put on your phone/tablet/whatever, not only creating folders as they are now, but you can opt to either output epub files to the same folders as the html files or save all epubs regardless to a single folder seperately from the rest - ATM I have two folders on my computer. 'Saved to Tablet' and 'Not Saved to Tablet' (not literally those titles) and keep my tablet synced with one. 

I've only got one story (well, a trilogy) from FFN on my tablet... and that's because the author created the epubs for us and put links up on his FFN profile... and converting existed deffnetized stories on my computer to epub's had already crashed tablet when I went to open it the last and only time I tried. not feckin up a £250 quid tablet [that I only bought for £140 because the shop thought they were selling the old one to me. HHAHAHAH!]

[T.J. Lahey]

I've had success taking the html files, bringing them in to Calibre, and
converting them to ePub using it. It's worked pretty well. My only
problem has been getting the right template.

Cheers,

TJ.

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[Tara Li]

It's called Calibre - it does a decent job of turning HTML into EPUBs.  BTW, there's a bit more to EPUB than you mention - the metadata files really help out a lot.  However, Calibre is now adding ebook editing features, so it can be much more convenient.

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[Dennis]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Tara Li <tar...@gmail.com> wrote:

It's called Calibre - it does a decent job of turning HTML into EPUBs.  BTW, there's a bit more to EPUB than you mention - the metadata files really help out a lot.  However, Calibre is now adding ebook editing features, so it can be much more convenient.

Calibre has a plugin that worked for fanfiction.net last I knew (Not sure how often it gets updated though because I don't tend to download fanfiction these days so all I did was test it once.)

To get it click the down arrow next to preferences and choose get plugins to enhance calibre

The plugin name is fanfictiondownloader

[Joyslin Molpus]

The FanFiction downloader for Calibre works for a lot of sites, not just fanfiction.net.  It's updated very regularly, and the author keeps on top of all the changes fanfiction.net makes.

I use it almost daily.

[Tara Li]

Oh, certainly - there's the FanFictionDownloader plug-in for Calibre.  However, some people don't like it for one reason or another, and it's kinda ... I dunno, it just felt rude to be mentioning a competing solution on a mailing list people look to for solutions to problems with *this* program.  Maybe if the project lead was gone for a long time, and the program was starting to bit-rot, but...

[Alex]

yeah that's why I was thinking "DeFFNetizer to ePub" rather than "something completely different but also does the job"

[Alex]

that's why I was thinking along the lines of taking the data that the program (Deffnetizer) does to generate its own, stripped-down html files for the epub, or the html files it outputs into the folder would have, I dunno, tags at the right places for the program to strip.

I have had bad problems converting older stories using calibre, and I have theories as to why but I'm no programmer. And I can't create a "Stripped-down" template and re-download those stories as they're not on FFN anymore, and trawling with the html code and changing them is a pain in the ass.

More so than taking a story with a running interlude threaded through the story, stripping those out and making it a pre-se-qual story (I Am What I Am, by MMcGregor, a Buffy The Vampire Slayer story, on TTH. Xander goes back in time, the interludes are events from the first timeline and jump around abit, I was trying to take the interludes and sort them into the right order. what a Pain in the ass. But not as much.)

For Epubs, the reader programs usually have their own rules on how to display, and really, that means the only data you need is the story itself, the author data, any extra that it'll recognise (for instance, if they decide to add "show story summaries" to it, or Word-counts.) and a Chapter List for the TOC. one program read an epub that didn't have it, and so went by the html files' filename, alphabetically. Another went by one of the dates on the file's metadata, so the earliest chapter would have an earlier date right? but of course, when I tried to see if that meant updated chapters got pushed to the end... yep.

I've since switched to Akido or something on my Nexus 7, as the most stable but often it doesn't override font color from black, but I had to factory reset it after the last attempt so no more trying from me until something works properly, and not haphazardly.

[grenouille7777]

I gave up on Adiko and switched to Coolreader. It's more simplistic, but works well. Don't bother with the Windows port of CR, though -- it royally sucks.

Mike

At 10:12 AM 2/11/2014, you wrote:

I've since switched to Akido or something on my Nexus 7, as the most stable but often it doesn't override font color from black, but I had to factory reset it after the last attempt so no more trying from me until something works properly, and not haphazardly.

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