squee!Book Part II

[jumpuphigh]

In sad news, squee!Book's epubs have mostly been broken for me since I posted this entry last week. If I load them directly to my ereader, I get a Page Error when I try to read them. If I convert from epub to epub in Calibre, it does this crazy thing where it treats 10...or 50... pages as if they are one page. While I have gotten it to work on occasion, it's not working more than it is working.

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[azureye]

:(

Have you looked at any alternatives? I personally use FLAG (http://www.flagfic.com/)... though it unfortunately doesn't appear to support Livejournal or Dreamwidth, it supports most other major sites, including AO3 and fanfiction.net. I've found it to generally be super-good.

[jumpuphigh]

I do have another site to play with (http://ebook.online-convert.com). Thanks for the FLAG rec. I hadn't heard of it before. I was excited about squee!Books working again because of its ability to pull multi-page fics. Mostly, I read things from AO3 where I can click and download or fics that are posted mostly as text on one page that I can download as html and convert. I'm just not desperate enough to hassle with much more than that. Some sites (like Wraithbait) do not do real well as html converted to epub but it's usually readable.

[alyse]

In the longer term, we're probably looking to switch Wraithbait from eFiction to AO3's model when it's released to other archivists, or something other than eFiction. I know that doesn't help now, but I suspect many other archives might do something similar as ereaders continue to grow in popularity.

[jumpuphigh]

That is so good to hear. As I said, it's readable but to make it pretty, I have to do a lot more fiddling than I usually want to do. Of course, if it is a story that I want to keep for forever, I'm willing to do some fiddling. Plus, after 13 years of reading fanfic on a computer screen, even after having my ereader for over a year, being able to read things on my ereader still feels a bit like a miracle. I think it will take a significant amount of time before not being able to easily convert everything will start to get annoying.

[amalthia]

I was also hoping to switch the Angst Archive over to the A03 model. :)

[st_aurafina]

Are you using Version 2.1 If so, you could pop across to the bugs page and report a problem. halcyon_shift is pretty good at responding to problems, they might be able to help.

[jumpuphigh]

I'd love to be able to report the bug but I have been unsuccessful at commenting on LJ since the change to the commenting system.

[st_aurafina]

I'm not currently having problems commenting - would you like me to leave a comment pointing them towards this post?

[jumpuphigh]

That would be great. Thank you so much!

[st_aurafina]

And LJ just went down... But as soon as it's up, I will!

[st_aurafina]

And done - hope you get some help.

[jumpuphigh]

Thank you for helping!

[laceblade]

I had the same issues with squee!Book, although I assumed it was because the fics I was trying to convert to ebooks were all hella long. Since then, I've imbedded Grab My Books into my browser, and that's been great for me.

(My e-reader = kobo)

[jumpuphigh]

I just looked at Grab My Books (http://grabmybooks.com/) and don't see that it will grab multiple pages and make them into one book. Does it do that and I just missed the instructions?

[laceblade]

It does do that - I have done it! I think all the fic I've converted with it have been multi-page fics.

It's within the first 2 minutes of the video (b/c I never watched more than that).
But basically, you grab one page, then close the window that pops up in the lower-right.
Then you grab the next page and close the window again.
Keep grabbing pages until you've grabbed them all.
Then right-click and select "Grab my book!" A new tab should open in your browser, and then you can edit pages in the e-book if you want. (Delete stuff like, "Go to chapter 2" or something, if you want.)
Then somewhere on the top, you can hit "save" and download your .epub/etc file.


Let me know if this doesn't help and I can be more specific!

[jumpuphigh]

That helps a lot. Thank you so much!

[jumpuphigh]

Woo-hoo! I have made my first ebook with Grab My Books. It seems to have worked just fine (once I figured out to right click on the page instead of using the icon on my toolbar). Thanks again!