PSA

[sabinetzin]

I wrote a tutorial that some people around these parts might enjoy! It's on the tumblr and I don't want to recode it, so here it is: how to make an AO3 series into one single EPUB with Sigil.

Hurrah for EPUB!

Comments

[theniwokesoftly]

Oh I LOVE making fic into epubs. I've been using Calibre. I read all sorts of massive stuff on my nook, which doesn't hurt my eyes like my computer and my tablet do. Yaaaaay.

[sabinetzin]

I just really really hate Calibre, y'know? I hated the GUI, then it wiped all my bookmarks for no reason. Sigil just makes more sense to me, and it doesn't act like it knows better than I do.

[theniwokesoftly]

Well, I just wiped my hard drive and haven't re-downloaded a lot of my programs yet. Calibre is one of them- I shall try Sigil this time.

[sabinetzin]

Be advised that Sigil is a EPUB maker only- it won't convert files or transfer stuff to your ereader. But! That's what I use the Kobo program for. So. Different goals.

[theniwokesoftly]

What I was doing before was saving things as html files and then converting them with Calibre. The transferring stuff is easy- plug in and then drag & drop.

[laurakaye]

I do a lot of Kindle reading and EVERY TIME I want to read a series with a lot of short stories in it I wish there was a way to do this. So THANK YOU!

[busaikko]

If you use FireFox, you can get the add-on GrabMyBooks. Go to a page of links; right-click; choose "grab link". It will add that page as one chapter. Go to the next link, right-click, grab.

I put all the GateWorld transcripts for SGA all 5 seasons into one ebook with GrabMyBooks. It's sweet. (About 5000 pages long, yes, but portable!)

[everbright]

Ooo, fascinating. Thanks!

[queenbarwench]

I hadn't even realised I needed this! Thank you!