How do you print fics?

[gnatkip]

I guess I should preface this by saying that I occasionally read at the pit. What. I see recs. There's some good stuff there. Hush.This is something I've just started doing in the last couple of months -- printing long fics to read offline. I made myself a little OpenOffice template to copy/paste stories into, to make for easy reading but to

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[ratcreature]

I have the same problem and no solution. I don't really print fic anymore (though I used to), but I like to transfer stuff to my ancient PDA sometimes, and that's just much easier with a single file. That's why I like the newer efiction archives that give you a print button that has the complete story as an option rather than just displaying the chapters.

[gnatkip]

the newer efiction archives that give you a print button that has the complete story as an option

That is a great option! I haven't seen that, but then I only rarely visit archives. I do most of my reading on LJ these days.

[ratcreature]

I like reading longer stories on archives rather than LJ. I was really thrilled when efiction sites started to have this. Previously I thought the print button was pretty useless. Okay, it resulted in a plainer formatting, but who wants to print twenty chapters seperately? Now you can get it all as one file, and it has internal navigation links, so that you can still stop at the chapter breaks, close the document and find your place without scrolling or searching. It's much easier to just safe your favorite stories too, even if you don't want to transfer or print it.

[gnatkip]

Heh, I just went and found an archive running it, just so I could check it out. And it's a very useful feature, yes!

I've been toying with the idea of getting a used PDA solely to read fic and ebooks on, but I haven't really looked into it much. Glad to hear it is a possibility.

[ratcreature]

It is really no poblem. I suspect the fancy new ones can read html and surf the web directly, but I have this ancient thing, for which I need to convert it into docbook format,.pdb or something. So I just run a conversion script I have on the html files, but with *clean* html the result is okay and it only takes a few seconds.