I use calibre. It only needs the address and, unless it is labelled adult, will downloadit. From there you can convert to mobi, epub, doc or just about anything else.
Looking at some (now that I am on the computer) that I downloaded to read some while back. If the site has it in a box of some sort, then it should download fine.
I have some of yours in my archive file that still load as Mobi's just fine. (as that is what I put in my old Kindle). They can be converted to word or text as well.
I can email you a copy of No Better Name as an example, but it would have to be zipped. If interested, just holler.
Thank you for the offer, but I already have that safely downloaded from ffnet. Kindle still uses the .mobi format, so I would think, unless they vastly change their Kindles, which I don't see happening, a .mobi from any year will still work just fine (unlike, say, Word and their constant tinkering that makes old .doc files not open... Microsoft is idiotic).
This will be a "someday in the future" project, probably after Dink is off to grad school and I have a lot of hours in the day to fill. But I'm going to start the downloading now, grabbing one every day or so, just in case SoA goes kerplunk. *may that never happen*
It might be worth seeing if you can copy/paste directly from SoA to the AO3 draft page (cut out the Word step). It may not work, but if it does, it may save some work...
i posted some of my old stories to ao3 much later after they had been written, and i kept all my old stories on my computer as docs. so i didn't have to download them from some other site. but if i had to do that (from soa, for example), i guess i would login to my soa account, copy the text, and then post it to ao3. i don't know if that helps, but that's what i would do. ;)
Copy/paste is probably how I'll need to do it as well. Like I said, I have the files, but I edit within the site's editor, so the files aren't 100% identical to what's already published. Some of my older story files aren't even in .docx format, they were written so long ago and on a program other than Word, so I have no idea what they'll look like when I try to open them. Copy/paste is probably the easiest way to do it.
I actually found a downloader app that works with ff.net files, but it doesn't work for Stories of Arda, so unless Calibre works for it, I'll be stuck doing the copy/paste. I also will need to copy/paste reviews, I guess, since the downloader only copied the story itself, not the reviews. I'd hate to lose those, although to be honest, I rarely read them any more. :/
I like writing, hate the tedium of posting and keeping track of it all. I need an administrative assistant to do all that. LOL
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It is what loads to a Kindle or Nook reader, etc.
Does not upload to network however.
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I have some of yours in my archive file that still load as Mobi's just fine. (as that is what I put in my old Kindle). They can be converted to word or text as well.
I can email you a copy of No Better Name as an example, but it would have to be zipped. If interested, just holler.
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This will be a "someday in the future" project, probably after Dink is off to grad school and I have a lot of hours in the day to fill. But I'm going to start the downloading now, grabbing one every day or so, just in case SoA goes kerplunk. *may that never happen*
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Any html files you copy are bound to be 'polluted' with unnecessary tags and stuff, and would need to be cleaned up before looking nice on AO3.
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Otoh, make those local master copies!
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i don't know if that helps, but that's what i would do. ;)
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I like writing, hate the tedium of posting and keeping track of it all. I need an administrative assistant to do all that. LOL
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