I'm partial to saving each story in a series as separate books, then merely sorting them into a folder for ease of keeping them together. I've also been rethinking this logic if only because authors over on Archive of Our Own post a jillion of parts to a fic but I'm lazy and I sometimes authors post out of order or update a fic that's part 2 in a series of 3, and it's just so complicated.
For all stories from a particular author, I end up sorting into couplings or fandoms instead, just because I like everything fandom organized instead of author organized.
I've also been rethinking this logic if only because authors over on Archive of Our Own post a jillion of parts to a fic
Yep, to be honest I'm not sure how to save chapters into one complete file, so I do the same of d/l each individual chapter from Archive Of Our Own and uploading it to a folder in my kindle. It does get to be a pain though when some stories have like 20 individual chapters, so I should probably stop being lazy and figure out how to make a complete book with the fanfic I read :P
I highly recommend the combination of Calibre w/ the fanfiction downloader plugin for handling the multiple chapter stories, although I know AO3 has a download to epub or mobi function as well.
Single stories with multiple chapters at AO3 download as one file, but I agree that out-of-order parts in a series can be problematic (Story 2 is a WiP while the one-shot future sequel is done). I've had to take apart a few universes because of that, but then I just convert it out of mobi format into its separate parts, insert the new addition, then put it together again for conversion.
EpubMerge on Calibre will now let you create an anthology for these situations. I just tried it on AO3 and it was perfect. I just pasted the series page link and it did the rest!
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. You're right about how sometimes a series can have one part (story) unfinished and the author has already posted completed stories further along in the series. It is complicated.
I also like the idea of having things grouped by pairings or fandoms, which it sounds like can be managed by the Epubmerge plugin. There're times where I want to just read one fandom, and others where I want to read a particular author. It's all about having some flexibility, I think.
For all stories from a particular author, I end up sorting into couplings or fandoms instead, just because I like everything fandom organized instead of author organized.
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Yep, to be honest I'm not sure how to save chapters into one complete file, so I do the same of d/l each individual chapter from Archive Of Our Own and uploading it to a folder in my kindle. It does get to be a pain though when some stories have like 20 individual chapters, so I should probably stop being lazy and figure out how to make a complete book with the fanfic I read :P
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I also like the idea of having things grouped by pairings or fandoms, which it sounds like can be managed by the Epubmerge plugin. There're times where I want to just read one fandom, and others where I want to read a particular author. It's all about having some flexibility, I think.
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