This weekend I spent far too much time trying to figure out how to automate some tasks in Calibre. Normally I have to use Bulk edit metadata to remove all my tags, then select stories one by one to add a cover, especially if I have a group of stories from various fandoms.

What I learned this weekend fixed all of that and I posted my findings at fanfic-ebooks
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noncon, dubcon, and fannish standards


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Changing Mindsets: Digital Publishing is Not Simply a PDF I hope more Supernatural fan fiction authors (okay and any other author who thinks PDF is a good format) would read this before they only share a PDF single file version of their fic. I think at this stage in fandom I know many fans who are reading fics on a variety of devices where the PDF ( Read more... )

Thoughts about making the Big Bang more accessible

Here's a short passage that spoke to me.

"In the past some fans have volunteered to create PDFs or ePubs but this is not sustainable and some are having to pull back because of time commitments (and also because the difficulty of converting multi-part files into a single ePub/PDF). My thinking ( Read more... )

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.

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I'd like to be clear up front, this post is for people who are merging fan fiction into a single file, though it is possible some of the tips may help authors who would prefer their fic to retain as much of the original formatting as possible and not lose whole sections of their stories, or lose section breaks when someone else merges their story ( Read more... )

Portable Document Format (PDF) is a format used by many publishers as a final layout format. I use it at work when we send publications to a printer to print. PDF is great for making sure if I sent the file to five different printers each printing company would be able to create the same publication. "PDF is used for representing two-dimensional ( Read more... )

I've been thinking of making a series of posts about typography in fan fiction ebooks. This is something I've been giving thought to lately because currently there is no set standard for how people create epubs and mobipocket ebooks of fan fiction ( Read more... )

Master Posts are posts where an author lists their header information as well as chapters to all the parts in their LJ posted fic. This helps the reader find all the parts in the story ( Read more... )

First, I love artwork in stories cover images are awesome and I love it when people use images to show section breaks and I’m all for artwork in stories ( Read more... )