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Supernatural Rec and OTW archive squee/meta
Supernatural
Screw You, We're From Texas by makeit_takeit (Jared/Jensen) INSTANT REC!!! I had a blast reading this story. I loved the premise, the characters felt real and I completely believed how the two guys fell in love. Overall I loved how real this story felt and I believed the conflict the guys had to overcome.
In other news, the OTW archive has added an export to mobipocket/pdf/epub/and html feature. I've been experimenting more with it tonight and learning how the epub editor Sigil works to see if I can replace the blank paragraph space with an indent. The tests have not gone well and my css style-sheets haven't quite worked right, so I think until I figure it out I'll be creating my own epub formatted fan fiction. The other options is to figure out how to edit the beginning part of the story, reload the epub into Calibre and re-convert to epub so it fits my preferences. My whole setup is geared towards doing it myself and now I need to figure out how to change my conversion flow to adapt the A03 epubs while not changing anything drastically so that I can still convert stories from LJ/DW and ff.net.
I'm not a coder but I imagine it's not easy to set up a way for everyone to enter their personal preferences on such things as font type, font size, margins, space between paragraphs or indents, and etc... I think in time the stories will have cover art, summaries in the metadata, and users can set their download preferences in their Preferences panel. It's amazing to realize that the archive is still in beta and offers such a wide range of features. :)
I'm probably not going to use the export to epub feature right away but I can't deny it's a huge step forwards in helping users download ebook friendly fan fiction stories. I'm incredibly happy that it's happened because now there are over 100k stories available to read on Kindles, Nooks, Sonys, the Iphone/iPad and other portable devices. I've been looking forward to this for years now and I really do hope within a year the Ebook Library is obsolete and no longer needed. Though I suppose as long as authors don't archive their fics and only post to LJ then there may still be a need for the Ebook Library.
Screw You, We're From Texas by makeit_takeit (Jared/Jensen) INSTANT REC!!! I had a blast reading this story. I loved the premise, the characters felt real and I completely believed how the two guys fell in love. Overall I loved how real this story felt and I believed the conflict the guys had to overcome.
In other news, the OTW archive has added an export to mobipocket/pdf/epub/and html feature. I've been experimenting more with it tonight and learning how the epub editor Sigil works to see if I can replace the blank paragraph space with an indent. The tests have not gone well and my css style-sheets haven't quite worked right, so I think until I figure it out I'll be creating my own epub formatted fan fiction. The other options is to figure out how to edit the beginning part of the story, reload the epub into Calibre and re-convert to epub so it fits my preferences. My whole setup is geared towards doing it myself and now I need to figure out how to change my conversion flow to adapt the A03 epubs while not changing anything drastically so that I can still convert stories from LJ/DW and ff.net.
I'm not a coder but I imagine it's not easy to set up a way for everyone to enter their personal preferences on such things as font type, font size, margins, space between paragraphs or indents, and etc... I think in time the stories will have cover art, summaries in the metadata, and users can set their download preferences in their Preferences panel. It's amazing to realize that the archive is still in beta and offers such a wide range of features. :)
I'm probably not going to use the export to epub feature right away but I can't deny it's a huge step forwards in helping users download ebook friendly fan fiction stories. I'm incredibly happy that it's happened because now there are over 100k stories available to read on Kindles, Nooks, Sonys, the Iphone/iPad and other portable devices. I've been looking forward to this for years now and I really do hope within a year the Ebook Library is obsolete and no longer needed. Though I suppose as long as authors don't archive their fics and only post to LJ then there may still be a need for the Ebook Library.