This isn't the first time
this rumor has popped up and I doubt it will be the last. I've
been a registered user for 17 years (and reading on it for 19) and
I've lost count of the number of times it was being sold or shut
down or whatever else someone pulled out of their, erm, butt. All
that Cloudflare protection isn't cheap, so I suspect it will
around for a long while.
Mike
In
the 60's, people took LSD to make the world weird.? Now
the
world is weird, and people take Prozac to make it normal.
On 9/28/22 21:25, Marcel wrote:
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First I heard anything about a potential shut diwn
was a email posted by someone. Cant remember name? About a week
ago saying it was 'falling apart", updates weren't working,
stats not adding etc... and claiming owners abandoned site.
Clearly not true. I check almost daily an seen no issues with
stats or updates. I've posted updates myself on stories that
were live within a short time and received review alerts and
everything seems to be working. Another menrioned that site was
migrating to new servers.
I don't know
what started the rumor that FFN was shutting down, but I would
say that I've seen no indication of it.? The site is up,
running well, and making lots of ad revenue as far as I can
see.? I find it highly unlikely that they'd shut it down.
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First I heard anything about a potential shut diwn was a email posted by someone. Cant remember name? About a week ago saying it was 'falling apart", updates weren't working, stats not adding etc... and claiming owners abandoned site. Clearly not true. I check almost daily an seen no issues with stats or updates. I've posted updates myself on stories that were live within a short time and received review alerts and everything seems to be working. Another menrioned that site was migrating to new servers.
I don't know what started the rumor that FFN was shutting down, but I would say that I've seen no indication of it.? The site is up, running well, and making lots of ad revenue as far as I can see.? I find it highly unlikely that they'd shut it down.
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I don't know what started the rumor that FFN was shutting down, but I would say that I've seen no indication of it.? The site is up, running well, and making lots of ad revenue as far as I can see.? I find it highly unlikely that they'd shut it down.
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On Sep 26, 2022, at 11:47 AM, Ariel Schnee <arielschnee@...> wrote:
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So, how much would it cost to buy ff.net from it's owners who have
abandoned it now?
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Just read this from Mr Pi on ffn
22nd of September, 2022 - No update right now, but a
quick note: This site appears to be on its last legs, from what I can make
out. There are quite a few parts of it that aren't working now, such as story
statistics and notifications of PMs. I suspect that these may well not be
fixed in a timely manner, or possibly at all, since it appears that the site
owners have largely abandoned the site.
Clearly this is annoying on a number of levels, but it can't be helped. I
just wanted to say that I'll continue to update my stories here for as long as
possible, but if this place finally falls over completely and irretrievably, I
also post on AO3, as well as Sufficient Velocity and (with the exception of
Taylor Varga), on Spacebattles. So should this come about, look there
for my work :)
I would advise that anyone who has favorite stories here, especially ones
that are nowhere else and not likely to be duplicated elsewhere for any
reason, to download and save them just in case. There are tools on the web to
allow this to be done reasonably easily. I would recommend fichub dot net as
it seems to work well.
Anyway, that was all I wanted to say right now. I'll be back with more
words in the near future...
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I really doubt that FFN is
going away -- they must have far too much ad revenue based on what
I saw while I was testing ffdl. I was using it in clean virtual
machines, so I didn't have any ad blockers. I was shocked at the
number and size of the ads on the pages. They must make it
exceptionally hard to read anything.
m
In
the 60's, people took LSD to make the world weird.? Now
the
world is weird, and people take Prozac to make it normal.
On 9/26/22 10:03, Patrick Cross wrote:
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Re: https://www.fanfiction.net/u/8886156/mp3-1415player warning
This is copied from my other email account:
Mon, Sep 26 at 9:17 AM FFn
and it's counterpart FictionPress just got moved to a massive new
server. They've been working bugs out of the system for awhile. Parts of
the sites have been popping off and on as they do. Unfortunately, one
of the parts that went static was their update status on the front page
of the FFn (which is fixed now).
I'll
tell you what I've told other groups, is they updated the official app
before all this happened. They've got it fully functional, no down time
issues. Still can upload, read, and moderate.
They
currently have email setup to contact the dev team for site issues
during the server transfer, or you can always hit up the app people.
Just read this from Mr Pi on ffn
22nd of September, 2022
- No update right now, but a quick note: This site appears to be on its
last legs, from what I can make out. There are quite a few parts of it
that aren't working now, such as story statistics and notifications of
PMs. I suspect that these may well not be fixed in a timely manner, or
possibly at all, since it appears that the site owners have largely
abandoned the site.
Clearly this is annoying on a number of levels, but it can't be
helped. I just wanted to say that I'll continue to update my stories
here for as long as possible, but if this place finally falls over
completely and irretrievably, I also post on AO3, as well as Sufficient
Velocity and (with the exception of Taylor Varga), on Spacebattles. So should this come about, look there for my work :)
I would advise that anyone who has favorite stories here, especially
ones that are nowhere else and not likely to be duplicated elsewhere for
any reason, to download and save them just in case. There are tools on
the web to allow this to be done reasonably easily. I would recommend
fichub dot net as it seems to work well.
Anyway, that was all I wanted to say right now. I'll be back with more words in the near future...
Just read this from Mr Pi on ffn
22nd of September, 2022 - No update right now, but a quick note: This site appears to be on its last legs, from what I can make out. There are quite a few parts of it that aren't working now, such as story statistics and notifications of PMs. I suspect that these may well not be fixed in a timely manner, or possibly at all, since it appears that the site owners have largely abandoned the site.
Clearly this is annoying on a number of levels, but it can't be helped. I just wanted to say that I'll continue to update my stories here for as long as possible, but if this place finally falls over completely and irretrievably, I also post on AO3, as well as Sufficient Velocity and (with the exception of Taylor Varga), on Spacebattles. So should this come about, look there for my work :)
I would advise that anyone who has favorite stories here, especially ones that are nowhere else and not likely to be duplicated elsewhere for any reason, to download and save them just in case. There are tools on the web to allow this to be done reasonably easily. I would recommend fichub dot net as it seems to work well.
Anyway, that was all I wanted to say right now. I'll be back with more words in the near future...
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Re: https://www.fanfiction.net/u/8886156/mp3-1415player warning
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So, how much would it cost to buy ff.net from it's owners who have
abandoned it now?
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Subject: [Snorkack]
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Just read this from Mr Pi on ffn
22nd of September, 2022 - No update right now, but a
quick note: This site appears to be on its last legs, from what I can make
out. There are quite a few parts of it that aren't working now, such as story
statistics and notifications of PMs. I suspect that these may well not be
fixed in a timely manner, or possibly at all, since it appears that the site
owners have largely abandoned the site.
Clearly this is annoying on a number of levels, but it can't be helped. I
just wanted to say that I'll continue to update my stories here for as long as
possible, but if this place finally falls over completely and irretrievably, I
also post on AO3, as well as Sufficient Velocity and (with the exception of
Taylor Varga), on Spacebattles. So should this come about, look there
for my work :)
I would advise that anyone who has favorite stories here, especially ones
that are nowhere else and not likely to be duplicated elsewhere for any
reason, to download and save them just in case. There are tools on the web to
allow this to be done reasonably easily. I would recommend fichub dot net as
it seems to work well.
Anyway, that was all I wanted to say right now. I'll be back with more
words in the near future...
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https://www.fanfiction.net/u/8886156/mp3-1415player warning
Just read this from Mr Pi on ffn
22nd of September, 2022 - No update right now, but a quick note: This site appears to be on its last legs, from what I can make out. There are quite a few parts of it that aren't working now, such as story statistics and notifications of PMs. I suspect that these may well not be fixed in a timely manner, or possibly at all, since it appears that the site owners have largely abandoned the site.
Clearly this is annoying on a number of levels, but it can't be helped. I just wanted to say that I'll continue to update my stories here for as long as possible, but if this place finally falls over completely and irretrievably, I also post on AO3, as well as Sufficient Velocity and (with the exception of Taylor Varga), on Spacebattles. So should this come about, look there for my work :)
I would advise that anyone who has favorite stories here, especially ones that are nowhere else and not likely to be duplicated elsewhere for any reason, to download and save them just in case. There are tools on the web to allow this to be done reasonably easily. I would recommend fichub dot net as it seems to work well.
Anyway, that was all I wanted to say right now. I'll be back with more words in the near future...
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Re: New Fanfic Downloader Beta
If Rai completes it as he
did with the previous versions, there should be an installer that
includes the files necessary for conversion from the portable
version of Calibre, thereby negating the need for the full Calibre
to be installed. As this is still an early beta, there was no
point in going through that extra effort until he got the
downloader portion working.
I understand what you're saying about experience and saving space
being a habit. I remember single-sided 5.25" and 8" floppies and
loading programs from tape. There are members of this group that
remember even further back.
What I don't understand is where you got the idea that epubs are
unnecessarily large. Just for S&G, I grabbed RobSt's "Harry
Crow" at 737k words. The html is 4093KB, the pdf is 4835KB, and
the epub is 1680KB. The epub format was created for the purpose of
small file sizes on portable devices. Now, it does require a
specialized viewer, but other than that, it is superior in saving
space and adjusting to your environment.
I'm not trying to be an a**hole about this, but I'm just trying to
prevent any confusion among those with, shall we say, less
computer experience.
Mike
In
the 60's, people took LSD to make the world weird.? Now
the
world is weird, and people take Prozac to make it normal.
On 9/21/22 12:26, Marcel wrote:
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Show quoted text
I have other programs that allow me to read any
documents I don't need caliber to do that
Caliber offers me nothing and as others complain
are mentioned just makes everything more complicated than it
has to be I am very grateful that someone is trying to help us
download from which I have been
doing for over 26 years
My concern is that we now have to add a second
program that is resource heavy and not very user friendly in
order to use one of the better programs with ffdl.
I'm old enough to have been doing this long
enough that I was transferring files on floppy disks which had
a 1.44 MB size limit
With some of the modern formats this isn't even
enough space to fit one chapter of some stories. Ebook ePub
HTML all increase the size of the files do the formatting
processes to ridiculous amounts. Appointment text file might
be one megabyte for a 500,000 word story where that same story
as an ebook is 60 or 70 MB at a bare minimum. I'm still old
school and that I worry about serving space and ease of
reading and transferability. Currently in possession of over 1
GB worth of story files which amount to roughly 75,000 files.
Everything from Individual chapters have
completed stories completed full length and cyclopedia length
in stories and novels and everything in between. Mostly in
txt, .doc, or .rtf formats watch me read pretty much any
device any operating system as long as it has a basic text
reading program such as notepad or wordpad
HTML documents require a browser or an internet
connection to be read and when you want to read in an area
where you don't have internet access you can't really do it.
Also different versions of browsers sometimes alter the
formatting or viewability of an HTML document. Some of my
older documents that are HTML can no longer be viewed with the
modern browsers do the changes in programming in the last 25
years.
Before my preference and being able to download
simple text and settle fancy overcomplicated processes such as
ebook Pub and HTML.
On Wed, 21 Sep 2022, 8:50 am
Icemanau, < xwing005@...>
wrote:
Calibre
is more of a front end application for organising your
library, connecting to readers and other such functions.
When
you add 'books' to calibre, it copies them into a
directory system it controls based on the authors name.
While
you can't add directories or folders as such, there is a
method to create 'Virtual Libraries' which contain
listings of whatever the specification may be.
?For
example, I have several Virtual libraries which cover
various fandoms Like BtVS, HP, Naruto & Stargate.
These
virtual libraries only show books from the related fandom
based on the additional metadata I add.
That
metadata can be shown as custom columns (I have Fandom,
Chapters, Status [In Progress, Complete and so on], Genre
and Series which I have added). The Virtual Libraries show
fics based on the Fandom.
While
the files are kept in the Calibre directories, when you
want to read one, you double click on the book name and it
will open the book with the appropriate external program
according to the type of format the file has. Calibre does
supply an out of the box E-book viewer, but depending on
what your file settings are, it may use something
different.
My
install uses Adobe Reader for PDF, Firefox for HTML &
the E-book Viewer for any epubs.
When
you have a file highlighted, you should have a sidebar on
the right showing a copy of the cover along with the basic
information about the file. If you right click on the file
format, you can select what program to use to open that
particular file type.
Calibre
has a ton of features and is regularly updated every
couple of weeks.
You
don't have to even use it, just have it installed and kept
up to date to allow the fanficdownloader to convert the
files to the format you want. This used to happen
automatically in the background with the old program and
hopefully will with the new one when it's closer to being
a finished.
==========
"My doctor says that I have a malformed
public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in
moral fibre, and that I am therefore excused from
saving Universes." ~Douglas Adams
Regards Brad
I install Calibre but it looks like 10
tons of useless. Cant add directories or folders to
library, only files and doesnt seem to really load files
to be read, just keeps opening new windows asking to
load the files,
Why do we need this garbage program to
run or use ffdl? Never had to beforw and ffsl still
works for some sites. Just not
or ficwad from what i see.
Also qhy html? Not a txt or rtf format?
On Tue, 20 Sep 2022, 3:23 am
grenouille7777 via
,
<grenouille7777= [email protected]>
wrote:
WIn 11,
right? Ignore it. That just means that it's not in
Mickeysoft's database. Oh, and read the
instructions on the page you downloaded it from.
The file is a stand-alone executable, not an
installer. Create a folder named "ffdl" somewhere
on your system and extract the zip file to that
folder. Run the file "ffdl-beta-2.0.0-beta2.exe"
from that folder. Make certain that you have a
recent version of Calibre installed first. If
Windows gives any kind of security warning, tell
it to "Allow" or "Ignore" or whatever it wants. It
is completely safe. I have personally tested it on
Win 7, 10, and 11 and other than some trouble with
FFN's summary formatting that's occasionally
confusing Calibre (which Rai is addressing), it
works great.
Mike
In
the 60's, people took LSD to make the
world weird.? Now the world is weird, and
people take Prozac to make it normal.
On 9/19/22 23:35, Marcel wrote:
Tried ti install, got a security
warning preventing me to run installer and
program.
Downloaded from link.
Hi all,
The new beta is out!!! Yay!!! So happy
it's being worked on!!
I tried it and it worked! Epub did not
work though for me I'll be curious if
others can. HTML and PDF loaded well. And
for those who like double spaces between
paragraphs and quotes, you can load the
html version, then insert space, select
all, copy, then paste in wherever you
read.
Katy
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I have other programs that allow me to read any documents I don't need caliber to do that Caliber offers me nothing and as others complain are mentioned just makes everything more complicated than it has to be I am very grateful that someone is trying to help us download from which I have been doing for over 26 years My concern is that we now have to add a second program that is resource heavy and not very user friendly in order to use one of the better programs with ffdl. I'm old enough to have been doing this long enough that I was transferring files on floppy disks which had a 1.44 MB size limit With some of the modern formats this isn't even enough space to fit one chapter of some stories. Ebook ePub HTML all increase the size of the files do the formatting processes to ridiculous amounts. Appointment text file might be one megabyte for a 500,000 word story where that same story as an ebook is 60 or 70 MB at a bare minimum. I'm still old school and that I worry about serving space and ease of reading and transferability. Currently in possession of over 1 GB worth of story files which amount to roughly 75,000 files. Everything from Individual chapters have completed stories completed full length and cyclopedia length in stories and novels and everything in between. Mostly in txt, .doc, or .rtf formats watch me read pretty much any device any operating system as long as it has a basic text reading program such as notepad or wordpad HTML documents require a browser or an internet connection to be read and when you want to read in an area where you don't have internet access you can't really do it. Also different versions of browsers sometimes alter the formatting or viewability of an HTML document. Some of my older documents that are HTML can no longer be viewed with the modern browsers do the changes in programming in the last 25 years. Before my preference and being able to download simple text and settle fancy overcomplicated processes such as ebook Pub and HTML.
On Wed, 21 Sep 2022, 8:50 am Icemanau, < xwing005@...> wrote:
Calibre is more of a front end application for organising your library, connecting to readers and other such functions.
When you add 'books' to calibre, it copies them into a directory system it controls based on the authors name.
While you can't add directories or folders as such, there is a method to create 'Virtual Libraries' which contain listings of whatever the specification may be.
?For example, I have several Virtual libraries which cover various fandoms Like BtVS, HP, Naruto & Stargate.
These virtual libraries only show books from the related fandom based on the additional metadata I add.
That metadata can be shown as custom columns (I have Fandom, Chapters, Status [In Progress, Complete and so on], Genre and Series which I have added). The Virtual Libraries show fics based on the Fandom.
While the files are kept in the Calibre directories, when you want to read one, you double click on the book name and it will open the book with the appropriate external program according to the type of format the file has. Calibre does supply an out of the
box E-book viewer, but depending on what your file settings are, it may use something different.
My install uses Adobe Reader for PDF, Firefox for HTML & the E-book Viewer for any epubs.
When you have a file highlighted, you should have a sidebar on the right showing a copy of the cover along with the basic information about the file. If you right click on the file format, you can select what program to use to open that particular file type.
Calibre has a ton of features and is regularly updated every couple of weeks.
You don't have to even use it, just have it installed and kept up to date to allow the fanficdownloader to convert the files to the format you want. This used to happen automatically in the background with the old program and hopefully will with the new one
when it's closer to being a finished.
==========
"My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre, and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes." ~Douglas Adams
Regards Brad
I install Calibre but it looks like 10 tons of useless. Cant add directories or folders to library, only files and doesnt seem to really load files to be read, just keeps opening new windows asking to load the files,
Why do we need this garbage program to run or use ffdl? Never had to beforw and ffsl still works for some sites. Just not
or ficwad from what i see.
Also qhy html? Not a txt or rtf format?
On Tue, 20 Sep 2022, 3:23 am grenouille7777 via
, <grenouille7777= [email protected]> wrote:
WIn 11, right? Ignore it. That just means that it's not in Mickeysoft's database. Oh, and read the instructions on the page you downloaded it from. The file is a stand-alone executable, not an installer. Create
a folder named "ffdl" somewhere on your system and extract the zip file to that folder. Run the file "ffdl-beta-2.0.0-beta2.exe" from that folder. Make certain that you have a recent version of Calibre installed first. If Windows gives any kind of security
warning, tell it to "Allow" or "Ignore" or whatever it wants. It is completely safe. I have personally tested it on Win 7, 10, and 11 and other than some trouble with FFN's summary formatting that's occasionally confusing Calibre (which Rai is addressing),
it works great.
Mike
In the 60's, people took LSD to make the world weird.? Now the world is weird, and people take Prozac to make it normal.
On 9/19/22 23:35, Marcel wrote:
Tried ti install, got a security warning preventing me to run installer and program.
Downloaded from link.
Hi all,
The new beta is out!!! Yay!!! So happy it's being worked on!!
I tried it and it worked! Epub did not work though for me I'll be curious if others can. HTML and PDF loaded well. And for those who like double spaces between paragraphs and quotes, you can load the html version, then insert space, select all, copy, then
paste in wherever you read.
Katy
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I have to say that I find Calibre to be almost unusable.
It doesn't give you the option of adding a "book" to the library when you open one, it just does it. There is bludger-all opportunity to organise your "library" - it is just one linear list. Removing a text you don't want to keep is a pain and there are few options
concerning formatting and pagination.
The program seems to demand an inordinate amount of resources on my computer and takes forever and a week to load its clunky interface.
I still haven't figured out how to bookmark pages, and the lack of ability to add margin
notes is a total deal-breaker.
As far as I can see, it only has one advantage, and that is the ability to re-flow pages to fit
the application window (useful for having a reference open while working on a paper).
As for fan fictions - I don't bother if the only format is eBook - I would rather read a text file.
On Wed, 21 Sept 2022 at 13:50, Icemanau < xwing005@...> wrote:
Calibre is more of a front end application for organising your library, connecting to readers and other such functions.
When you add 'books' to calibre, it copies them into a directory system it controls based on the authors name.
While you can't add directories or folders as such, there is a method to create 'Virtual Libraries' which contain listings of whatever the specification may be.
?For example, I have several Virtual libraries which cover various fandoms Like BtVS, HP, Naruto & Stargate.
These virtual libraries only show books from the related fandom based on the additional metadata I add.
That metadata can be shown as custom columns (I have Fandom, Chapters, Status [In Progress, Complete and so on], Genre and Series which I have added). The Virtual Libraries show fics based on the Fandom.
While the files are kept in the Calibre directories, when you want to read one, you double click on the book name and it will open the book with the appropriate external program according to the type of format the file has. Calibre does supply an out of the
box E-book viewer, but depending on what your file settings are, it may use something different.
My install uses Adobe Reader for PDF, Firefox for HTML & the E-book Viewer for any epubs.
When you have a file highlighted, you should have a sidebar on the right showing a copy of the cover along with the basic information about the file. If you right click on the file format, you can select what program to use to open that particular file type.
Calibre has a ton of features and is regularly updated every couple of weeks.
You don't have to even use it, just have it installed and kept up to date to allow the fanficdownloader to convert the files to the format you want. This used to happen automatically in the background with the old program and hopefully will with the new one
when it's closer to being a finished.
==========
"My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre, and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes." ~Douglas Adams
Regards Brad
I install Calibre but it looks like 10 tons of useless. Cant add directories or folders to library, only files and doesnt seem to really load files to be read, just keeps opening new windows asking to load the files,
Why do we need this garbage program to run or use ffdl? Never had to beforw and ffsl still works for some sites. Just not
or ficwad from what i see.
Also qhy html? Not a txt or rtf format?
On Tue, 20 Sep 2022, 3:23 am grenouille7777 via
, <grenouille7777= [email protected]> wrote:
WIn 11, right? Ignore it. That just means that it's not in Mickeysoft's database. Oh, and read the instructions on the page you downloaded it from. The file is a stand-alone executable, not an installer. Create
a folder named "ffdl" somewhere on your system and extract the zip file to that folder. Run the file "ffdl-beta-2.0.0-beta2.exe" from that folder. Make certain that you have a recent version of Calibre installed first. If Windows gives any kind of security
warning, tell it to "Allow" or "Ignore" or whatever it wants. It is completely safe. I have personally tested it on Win 7, 10, and 11 and other than some trouble with FFN's summary formatting that's occasionally confusing Calibre (which Rai is addressing),
it works great.
Mike
In the 60's, people took LSD to make the world weird.? Now the world is weird, and people take Prozac to make it normal.
On 9/19/22 23:35, Marcel wrote:
Tried ti install, got a security warning preventing me to run installer and program.
Downloaded from link.
Hi all,
The new beta is out!!! Yay!!! So happy it's being worked on!!
I tried it and it worked! Epub did not work though for me I'll be curious if others can. HTML and PDF loaded well. And for those who like double spaces between paragraphs and quotes, you can load the html version, then insert space, select all, copy, then
paste in wherever you read.
Katy
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Re: New Fanfic Downloader Beta
Calibre is more of a front end application for organising your library, connecting to readers and other such functions.
When you add 'books' to calibre, it copies them into a directory system it controls based on the authors name.
While you can't add directories or folders as such, there is a method to create 'Virtual Libraries' which contain listings of whatever the specification may be.
?For example, I have several Virtual libraries which cover various fandoms Like BtVS, HP, Naruto & Stargate.
These virtual libraries only show books from the related fandom based on the additional metadata I add.
That metadata can be shown as custom columns (I have Fandom, Chapters, Status [In Progress, Complete and so on], Genre and Series which I have added). The Virtual Libraries show fics based on the Fandom.
While the files are kept in the Calibre directories, when you want to read one, you double click on the book name and it will open the book with the appropriate external program according to the type of format the file has. Calibre does supply an out of the
box E-book viewer, but depending on what your file settings are, it may use something different.
My install uses Adobe Reader for PDF, Firefox for HTML & the E-book Viewer for any epubs.
When you have a file highlighted, you should have a sidebar on the right showing a copy of the cover along with the basic information about the file. If you right click on the file format, you can select what program to use to open that particular file type.
Calibre has a ton of features and is regularly updated every couple of weeks.
You don't have to even use it, just have it installed and kept up to date to allow the fanficdownloader to convert the files to the format you want. This used to happen automatically in the background with the old program and hopefully will with the new one
when it's closer to being a finished.
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I install Calibre but it looks like 10 tons of useless. Cant add directories or folders to library, only files and doesnt seem to really load files to be read, just keeps opening new windows asking to load the files,
Why do we need this garbage program to run or use ffdl? Never had to beforw and ffsl still works for some sites. Just not
or ficwad from what i see.
Also qhy html? Not a txt or rtf format?
On Tue, 20 Sep 2022, 3:23 am grenouille7777 via
, <grenouille7777= [email protected]> wrote:
WIn 11, right? Ignore it. That just means that it's not in Mickeysoft's database. Oh, and read the instructions on the page you downloaded it from. The file is a stand-alone executable, not an installer. Create
a folder named "ffdl" somewhere on your system and extract the zip file to that folder. Run the file "ffdl-beta-2.0.0-beta2.exe" from that folder. Make certain that you have a recent version of Calibre installed first. If Windows gives any kind of security
warning, tell it to "Allow" or "Ignore" or whatever it wants. It is completely safe. I have personally tested it on Win 7, 10, and 11 and other than some trouble with FFN's summary formatting that's occasionally confusing Calibre (which Rai is addressing),
it works great.
Mike
In the 60's, people took LSD to make the world weird.? Now the world is weird, and people take Prozac to make it normal.
On 9/19/22 23:35, Marcel wrote:
Tried ti install, got a security warning preventing me to run installer and program.
Downloaded from link.
Hi all,
The new beta is out!!! Yay!!! So happy it's being worked on!!
I tried it and it worked! Epub did not work though for me I'll be curious if others can. HTML and PDF loaded well. And for those who like double spaces between paragraphs and quotes, you can load the html version, then insert space, select all, copy, then
paste in wherever you read.
Katy
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Ok fair , point I miss read it but my statement still stands just does not quite fit this sitrep
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On Sep 21, 2022, at 6:38 AM, Z C <Z.C.no.spam@...> wrote:
? If you read the message carefully, Marcus was saying that *Calibre* was the garbage program: “Why do we need this garbage to run FFDL”. On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 8:26 AM Trenton Riopel via <peped2k= [email protected]> wrote: I am only going to say this once, the entitlement in fan fiction is bull s**T these are people who do not make any money ?on these story’s and tools to make the whole community more enjoyable, and to hear someone call ff dler garbage just sickens me, no wonder writers and content creators say f you and walk !!? ?
And I am sorry if that message came off snappy.
Just this guy is trying and I bridled at the term garbage. That's his hard work
that he doesn't have to do. I hope you get it to
work.
What OS are you using, did you download the latest Calibre, did you get the
latest beta... that's all I can think of.
Katy
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I install Calibre but it looks like 10 tons of useless. Cant add
directories or folders to library, only files and doesnt seem to really load
files to be read, just keeps opening new windows asking to load the files,
Why do we need this garbage program to run or use ffdl? Never had to
beforw and ffsl still works for some sites. Just not or ficwad from what i see.
Also qhy html? Not a txt or rtf format?
On Tue, 20 Sep 2022, 3:23 am grenouille7777 via
, <grenouille7777= [email protected]>
wrote:
WIn 11, right? Ignore it.
That just means that it's not in Mickeysoft's database. Oh, and read the
instructions on the page you downloaded it from. The file is a stand-alone
executable, not an installer. Create a folder named "ffdl" somewhere on your
system and extract the zip file to that folder. Run the file
"ffdl-beta-2.0.0-beta2.exe" from that folder. Make certain that you have a
recent version of Calibre installed first. If Windows gives any kind of
security warning, tell it to "Allow" or "Ignore" or whatever it wants. It is
completely safe. I have personally tested it on Win 7, 10, and 11 and other
than some trouble with FFN's summary formatting that's occasionally
confusing Calibre (which Rai is addressing), it works
great.
Mike
In the 60's, people took LSD to make the
world weird.? Now the world is weird, and people take Prozac to make it
normal.
On 9/19/22 23:35, Marcel wrote:
Tried ti install, got a security warning preventing me to run
installer and program.
Downloaded from link.
Hi all,
The new beta is out!!! Yay!!! So happy it's being worked on!!
I tried it and it worked! Epub did not work though for me I'll be
curious if others can. HTML and PDF loaded well. And for those who like
double spaces between paragraphs and quotes, you can load the html
version, then insert space, select all, copy, then paste in wherever you
read.
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If you read the message carefully, Marcus was saying that *Calibre* was the garbage program: “Why do we need this garbage to run FFDL”.
On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 8:26 AM Trenton Riopel via <peped2k= [email protected]> wrote: I am only going to say this once, the entitlement in fan fiction is bull s**T these are people who do not make any money ?on these story’s and tools to make the whole community more enjoyable, and to hear someone call ff dler garbage just sickens me, no wonder writers and content creators say f you and walk !!? ?
And I am sorry if that message came off snappy.
Just this guy is trying and I bridled at the term garbage. That's his hard work
that he doesn't have to do. I hope you get it to
work.
What OS are you using, did you download the latest Calibre, did you get the
latest beta... that's all I can think of.
Katy
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2022 4:52
AM
Subject: Re: [Snorkack] New Fanfic
Downloader Beta
I install Calibre but it looks like 10 tons of useless. Cant add
directories or folders to library, only files and doesnt seem to really load
files to be read, just keeps opening new windows asking to load the files,
Why do we need this garbage program to run or use ffdl? Never had to
beforw and ffsl still works for some sites. Just not or ficwad from what i see.
Also qhy html? Not a txt or rtf format?
On Tue, 20 Sep 2022, 3:23 am grenouille7777 via
, <grenouille7777= [email protected]>
wrote:
WIn 11, right? Ignore it.
That just means that it's not in Mickeysoft's database. Oh, and read the
instructions on the page you downloaded it from. The file is a stand-alone
executable, not an installer. Create a folder named "ffdl" somewhere on your
system and extract the zip file to that folder. Run the file
"ffdl-beta-2.0.0-beta2.exe" from that folder. Make certain that you have a
recent version of Calibre installed first. If Windows gives any kind of
security warning, tell it to "Allow" or "Ignore" or whatever it wants. It is
completely safe. I have personally tested it on Win 7, 10, and 11 and other
than some trouble with FFN's summary formatting that's occasionally
confusing Calibre (which Rai is addressing), it works
great.
Mike
In the 60's, people took LSD to make the
world weird.? Now the world is weird, and people take Prozac to make it
normal.
On 9/19/22 23:35, Marcel wrote:
Tried ti install, got a security warning preventing me to run
installer and program.
Downloaded from link.
Hi all,
The new beta is out!!! Yay!!! So happy it's being worked on!!
I tried it and it worked! Epub did not work though for me I'll be
curious if others can. HTML and PDF loaded well. And for those who like
double spaces between paragraphs and quotes, you can load the html
version, then insert space, select all, copy, then paste in wherever you
read.
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I am only going to say this once, the entitlement in fan fiction is bull s**T these are people who do not make any money ?on these story’s and tools to make the whole community more enjoyable, and to hear someone call ff dler garbage just sickens me, no wonder writers and content creators say f you and walk !!?
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On Sep 21, 2022, at 6:20 AM, Katy Todd <ktlynn687@...> wrote:
?
And I am sorry if that message came off snappy.
Just this guy is trying and I bridled at the term garbage. That's his hard work
that he doesn't have to do. I hope you get it to
work.
What OS are you using, did you download the latest Calibre, did you get the
latest beta... that's all I can think of.
Katy
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2022 4:52
AM
Subject: Re: [Snorkack] New Fanfic
Downloader Beta
I install Calibre but it looks like 10 tons of useless. Cant add
directories or folders to library, only files and doesnt seem to really load
files to be read, just keeps opening new windows asking to load the files,
Why do we need this garbage program to run or use ffdl? Never had to
beforw and ffsl still works for some sites. Just not or ficwad from what i see.
Also qhy html? Not a txt or rtf format?
On Tue, 20 Sep 2022, 3:23 am grenouille7777 via
, <grenouille7777= [email protected]>
wrote:
WIn 11, right? Ignore it.
That just means that it's not in Mickeysoft's database. Oh, and read the
instructions on the page you downloaded it from. The file is a stand-alone
executable, not an installer. Create a folder named "ffdl" somewhere on your
system and extract the zip file to that folder. Run the file
"ffdl-beta-2.0.0-beta2.exe" from that folder. Make certain that you have a
recent version of Calibre installed first. If Windows gives any kind of
security warning, tell it to "Allow" or "Ignore" or whatever it wants. It is
completely safe. I have personally tested it on Win 7, 10, and 11 and other
than some trouble with FFN's summary formatting that's occasionally
confusing Calibre (which Rai is addressing), it works
great.
Mike
In the 60's, people took LSD to make the
world weird.? Now the world is weird, and people take Prozac to make it
normal.
On 9/19/22 23:35, Marcel wrote:
Tried ti install, got a security warning preventing me to run
installer and program.
Downloaded from link.
Hi all,
The new beta is out!!! Yay!!! So happy it's being worked on!!
I tried it and it worked! Epub did not work though for me I'll be
curious if others can. HTML and PDF loaded well. And for those who like
double spaces between paragraphs and quotes, you can load the html
version, then insert space, select all, copy, then paste in wherever you
read.
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?
And I am sorry if that message came off snappy.
Just this guy is trying and I bridled at the term garbage. That's his hard work
that he doesn't have to do. I hope you get it to
work.
What OS are you using, did you download the latest Calibre, did you get the
latest beta... that's all I can think of.
Katy
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2022 4:52
AM
Subject: Re: [Snorkack] New Fanfic
Downloader Beta
I install Calibre but it looks like 10 tons of useless. Cant add
directories or folders to library, only files and doesnt seem to really load
files to be read, just keeps opening new windows asking to load the files,
Why do we need this garbage program to run or use ffdl? Never had to
beforw and ffsl still works for some sites. Just not or ficwad from what i see.
Also qhy html? Not a txt or rtf format?
On Tue, 20 Sep 2022, 3:23 am grenouille7777 via
, <grenouille7777= [email protected]>
wrote:
WIn 11, right? Ignore it.
That just means that it's not in Mickeysoft's database. Oh, and read the
instructions on the page you downloaded it from. The file is a stand-alone
executable, not an installer. Create a folder named "ffdl" somewhere on your
system and extract the zip file to that folder. Run the file
"ffdl-beta-2.0.0-beta2.exe" from that folder. Make certain that you have a
recent version of Calibre installed first. If Windows gives any kind of
security warning, tell it to "Allow" or "Ignore" or whatever it wants. It is
completely safe. I have personally tested it on Win 7, 10, and 11 and other
than some trouble with FFN's summary formatting that's occasionally
confusing Calibre (which Rai is addressing), it works
great.
Mike
In the 60's, people took LSD to make the
world weird.? Now the world is weird, and people take Prozac to make it
normal.
On 9/19/22 23:35, Marcel wrote:
Tried ti install, got a security warning preventing me to run
installer and program.
Downloaded from link.
Hi all,
The new beta is out!!! Yay!!! So happy it's being worked on!!
I tried it and it worked! Epub did not work though for me I'll be
curious if others can. HTML and PDF loaded well. And for those who like
double spaces between paragraphs and quotes, you can load the html
version, then insert space, select all, copy, then paste in wherever you
read.
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?
We have this, because the maker has worked hard to
make it despite the pitfalls of cloudflare. Also he has been working on one
incarnation of this or another for many years.
It may not work like it used to, but it's possible
he'll get it there, but at least we have one still being worked on.
If you're having problems, put them in the contact
form on the beta site constructively and if there is a fix, then cool. I get
frustrated as well, but not at the program. It starts with
fanfiction.net.
Katy
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2022 4:52
AM
Subject: Re: [Snorkack] New Fanfic
Downloader Beta
I install Calibre but it looks like 10 tons of useless. Cant add
directories or folders to library, only files and doesnt seem to really load
files to be read, just keeps opening new windows asking to load the files,
Why do we need this garbage program to run or use ffdl? Never had to
beforw and ffsl still works for some sites. Just not or ficwad from what i see.
Also qhy html? Not a txt or rtf format?
On Tue, 20 Sep 2022, 3:23 am grenouille7777 via
, <grenouille7777= [email protected]>
wrote:
WIn 11, right? Ignore it.
That just means that it's not in Mickeysoft's database. Oh, and read the
instructions on the page you downloaded it from. The file is a stand-alone
executable, not an installer. Create a folder named "ffdl" somewhere on your
system and extract the zip file to that folder. Run the file
"ffdl-beta-2.0.0-beta2.exe" from that folder. Make certain that you have a
recent version of Calibre installed first. If Windows gives any kind of
security warning, tell it to "Allow" or "Ignore" or whatever it wants. It is
completely safe. I have personally tested it on Win 7, 10, and 11 and other
than some trouble with FFN's summary formatting that's occasionally
confusing Calibre (which Rai is addressing), it works
great.
Mike
In the 60's, people took LSD to make the
world weird.? Now the world is weird, and people take Prozac to make it
normal.
On 9/19/22 23:35, Marcel wrote:
Tried ti install, got a security warning preventing me to run
installer and program.
Downloaded from link.
Hi all,
The new beta is out!!! Yay!!! So happy it's being worked on!!
I tried it and it worked! Epub did not work though for me I'll be
curious if others can. HTML and PDF loaded well. And for those who like
double spaces between paragraphs and quotes, you can load the html
version, then insert space, select all, copy, then paste in wherever you
read.
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I install Calibre but it looks like 10 tons of useless. Cant add directories or folders to library, only files and doesnt seem to really load files to be read, just keeps opening new windows asking to load the files, Why do we need this garbage program to run or use ffdl? Never had to beforw and ffsl still works for some sites. Just not or ficwad from what i see. Also qhy html? Not a txt or rtf format?
On Tue, 20 Sep 2022, 3:23 am grenouille7777 via , <grenouille7777= [email protected]> wrote:
WIn 11, right? Ignore it.
That just means that it's not in Mickeysoft's database. Oh, and
read the instructions on the page you downloaded it from. The file
is a stand-alone executable, not an installer. Create a folder
named "ffdl" somewhere on your system and extract the zip file to
that folder. Run the file "ffdl-beta-2.0.0-beta2.exe" from that
folder. Make certain that you have a recent version of Calibre
installed first. If Windows gives any kind of security warning,
tell it to "Allow" or "Ignore" or whatever it wants. It is
completely safe. I have personally tested it on Win 7, 10, and 11
and other than some trouble with FFN's summary formatting that's
occasionally confusing Calibre (which Rai is addressing), it works
great.
Mike
In
the 60's, people took LSD to make the world weird.? Now
the
world is weird, and people take Prozac to make it normal.
On 9/19/22 23:35, Marcel wrote:
Tried ti install, got a security warning
preventing me to run installer and program.
Downloaded from link.
Hi all,
The new beta is out!!! Yay!!! So happy it's being
worked on!!
I tried it and it worked! Epub did not work though for
me I'll be curious if others can. HTML and PDF loaded
well. And for those who like double spaces between
paragraphs and quotes, you can load the html version, then
insert space, select all, copy, then paste in wherever you
read.
Katy
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Re: ot: creating a playlist as a gift?
Hi.
There are three methods I would look at. Firstly you could copy the files to their phone and create a playlist in some piece of software like phonograph, there is a list of local music apps here:? Another option would be to host either an Emby (open source), Plex (low cost closed source) or Roon (high cost/quality closed source) media server and then set up albums and playlists there.
In any of these cases, you need to download the files in some format probably either non-DRM MP3/AAC or FLAC, or purchase CDs and then rip them in order to put together the playlist.
Personally, I use Plex for my music, as even though it is non-free I am able to control the files, and the interface is better than Emby IMHO. I hear really good things about Roon, I just can't justify the cost.
On Wed, 21 Sept 2022 at 07:52, Karen Lewellen < klewellen@...> wrote: ? Hi techno wonders.
? Have a heart brother turning 40, and they are only? *cough* partakers of
? non-standard music media.
? No cd player, or turntable, only playlists.
? They use Android.
? My question is this.
? Anyone know of a way to generate a music playlist, happy to buy the files,
? that does not involve either YouTube, or spotify, and can be shared with an
? android user?
? Surely some open source method exists?
? Thanks,
? Kare
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