Unable to download Storiesonline Story

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free jsjj

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Apr 22, 2016, 5:23:10 AM4/22/16
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I have been trying since yesterday to download a Storiesonline story called "Six Times A Day" but I've been unsuccessful so far (it says that its"Working " even after 24 hours) ,and I would appreciate any help to resolve this issue (NSFW Link):
http://storiesonline.net/s/52707/six-times-a-day

free jsjj

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Apr 22, 2016, 7:31:18 AM4/22/16
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Would like to add that I use the web version .

Jim Miller

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Apr 22, 2016, 10:00:11 AM4/22/16
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On 4/22/2016 4:23 AM, free jsjj wrote:
> I have been trying since yesterday to download a Storiesonline story called "Six Times A Day" but I've been unsuccessful so far (it says that its"Working " even after 24 hours) ,and I would appreciate any help to resolve this issue (NSFW Link):
> http://storiesonline.net/s/52707/six-times-a-day

The webservice has limited resources that are shared between all its
users. It's not a big surprise that it would have problems downloading
a story with 150+ chapters(parts), each of which has several 'pages'
requiring hundreds of network requests in total.

Also, that story has many images per chapter as well. The webservice
version of FanFicFare doesn't download images, so you miss out on those.

I suggest using the CLI version or Calibre plugin version of FanFicFare
instead. And even then it's not going to be quick. The epub ends up
almost 50M.

Alternatively, you can try downloading that story with the webservice by
getting it in sections. For example, using the URL like this will get
chapters 1 through 10:

http://storiesonline.net/s/52707/six-times-a-day[1-10]

free jsjj

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Apr 22, 2016, 8:34:55 PM4/22/16
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Thank you for the quick reply! I don't need the images and my computer is busted so I will have to use the web service. I didn't know that you could download the chapters partwise so I am going to try that. Once again thanks for your reply and thank you for maintaining such a wonderful site!
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