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Fandom Calibre Screencap Tutorial (Guide to fandom plugins)

Nov 05, 2012 20:53

I've seen more requests on how to use Calibre plugins to download fic from archives into Calibre and how to merge series into a single file. This tutorial will first cover how to install plugins. As well as how to use the plugin Fanfiction Downloader to download fic from archives into Calibre and then the use of the plugin Epubmerge to merge series ( Read more... )

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Comments 16

mama_pyjama November 6 2012, 10:26:24 UTC

This is so fab, thank you. I hadn't come across epubmerge before, so am very pleased.

amothea November 7 2012, 05:56:38 UTC

Yay! glad I was able to provide info on Epubmerge. It's officially my new favorite plugin. :)

springwoof November 6 2012, 23:17:52 UTC

Thank you! Such wonderful tools at our disposal, but not everyone is very techy, or else they're just plain intimidated. A pictorial tutorial is just the ticket! How thoughtful you are!

amothea November 7 2012, 04:13:07 UTC

Thanks! :) I'm probably going to make another tutorial for custom columns. (or at least share my settings) It took me a bit of guess work when I first started. The one thing I could not find were clear directions.

the_other_sandy November 6 2012, 23:24:56 UTC

Thanks so much for this.

amothea November 7 2012, 04:13:23 UTC

You're welcome. :)

yukisa November 7 2012, 10:12:10 UTC

Thanks a lot for this!

Your custom-colums look really nice! I also have some, but let's just say that they kinda do what they want....

Because it really looks awesome like this (and it makes it far easier to search for things) but I found that it oftern takes a lot of time and therefore my fanfics are sorted by fandom and I make a note every time I thing a fic is really awesome that's kind it....

But I try to optimize it now a little bit as well, so thank you a lot!!!

amothea November 8 2012, 02:52:51 UTC

Glad I could help! :)

bettybaby63 November 15 2012, 23:23:06 UTC

thanks for all your effort with this tutorial. i am still slightly confused though....will the fanfic downloader work on LJ entries. i have many great stories on LJ, yet there doesn't seem to be a downloader compatible with LJ?

they all seem to specifically exclude LJ?

any advice you could offer would be greatly appreciated <3

amothea November 16 2012, 05:25:48 UTC

For LJ what you need is Squeebook and the Firefox add on called Copy Links

Squeebook will merge multiple chapters of an LJ into a single post. Calibre cannot at this time do that.

LJ has weird code and that is why I think no one has really tackled how to merge multiple posts into one. It sounds like a coding nightmare compared to the other archives.