How do you organize drabbles?

[valiha]

and short stories in calibre? Do you merge all drabbles written by one author into one html, which is what I was thinking about, or keep them separate? Would you also merge all short stories into a sort of a Fanfiction Anthology for that particular author or fandom or whatever?

ETA I also need advice on how to title fics such as anon fills in kinkmemes, multiple fils of a single prompt, anon comment fics and what kind of regex to use in calibre's Preferences > Import/Export > Add books section in such cases, or would I need a different one for each occasion?

Right now I have

(?P<author>[^_-]+) -?\s*(?P<series>[^_0-9-]*)(?P<series_index>[0-9]*)\s*-\s*(?P<title>[^_].+) ?

which handles those with titles such as Author - Series # - Title.ext well; how would you go about saving fills from, say, norsekink, if you didn't want to save each fill separately?

Comments

[amalthia]

Before I create an ebook I start off with the story in Microsoft Word. I use MS Word's TOC creation tool save the file. Then open the doc in Corel's Word Perfect X5 and save as plain html. The TOC is retained in the HTML file that is created. Then I clean up the code a bit and import the html file to Calibre and convert.

However, if you know how to create anchors in HTML you do not need Microsoft Word to create the Table of Contents for you. I just do it because I'm lazy. If there are only a few stories I hand code the TOC into the HTML.

Now if you don't want an inline TOC (which shows up within the ebook) you can still create a table of contents by tagging your chapter headers with h1 and h2 tags within the HTML file. I use this method 99% of the time.

For stories with nested TOC I use h1 for the top level chapter heading and h2 for the next level down. Then I use my devices TOC viewer to navigate to the chapter I need. This is helpful for stories that have over 60 chapters or for older readers that are not touchscreen capable.

[valiha]

Got it, thanks. Creating a TOC shouldn't be a problem; deciding how to treat and combine (if at all) short fics and drabbles is going to be an issue.