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I like saving fic to my hard drive, both for when it eventually gets deleted/locked, and when I want to take it with me on my ipod.
Praise the jesus, AO3 makes it really easy to do so. LJ? Not so much, especially for things with chapters.
However! There are people who make sweet little javascript apps that will strip webpages of their crapola, which I can then save as an HTML file, which saves me a shit-ton of copying and pasting. Most famously, there is Readability, but they seem to recently have undergone some sort of grotesque metamorphosis and now I can't tweak the bookmarklet of theirs that I have. (You can still get a version of their bookmarklet for free, but My Ego Is Not Satisfied.)
Runners up:
- I just found this great one called PrintWhatYouLike, which lets you select different parts of a webpage to keep or remove. Best of all, it offers a 'save as...' option, meaning it saves a streamlined version of the HTML of that page for you, not the original HTML with a different CSS sheet.
- NotForest is a readabilty-esque bookmarklet, but with minimal customization options and when you save the HTML file, the customizations go away.
- Scrapbook was recommended on one of the ebook forums as a good way to capture and combine multiple HTML files. I'm still playing around combining it with Readability/something to have ULTIMATE COSMIC POWER (TO SAVE ALL THE FANFIC IN A HANDY EBOOK-FRIENDLY FORMAT). Of course, it actually has it's own 'element-deleter' where you can click on all the bits of a webpage that you don't want, so that might actually just be easier. And of course, the main thing (for me) is to have the directory everything saves to be something I will remember to save in the event of a hard drive meltdown or similar, so there's that weakness, but nothing is saved directly in your browser, and it is all accessible from any folder browser.
- ClipR was okay, except not very customizable (the font is GIANT on my screen), and it doesn't strip out the images or comments (which could be a plus for some people). Again, doing file --> save as... in firefox doesn't save the changes, but it might work well in conjunction with Scrapbook. But honestly, at that point, I might as well skip the middleman (and the FUCKING ANNOYING light grey background color OMG LET ME TELL YOU A LONG AND DETAILED STORY ABOUT HOW MUCH I HATE IT WHEN WEBSITES DO THAT (YES, INCLUDING THE DEFAULT DREAMWIDTH PAGE OMFG HATE STAB)) and save everything with Scrapbook and be done with it.
- A bunch of other bookmarklets were a total bust since they seemed to go and re-get the webpage outside my browser where I am signed in, which results in the LJ age warning page in a really clean layout, which is less than useless.
And this last part is mostly for my own reference:
- This and this discuss how to do the merging multiple HTML files into and ebook sitch.
- vHtmlMerger got positive reviews on the 'merging HTML files issue', haven't checked it out.
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gigantic mentioned eCub as being good for something, haven't checked it out, has portable version!
Praise the jesus, AO3 makes it really easy to do so. LJ? Not so much, especially for things with chapters.
However! There are people who make sweet little javascript apps that will strip webpages of their crapola, which I can then save as an HTML file, which saves me a shit-ton of copying and pasting. Most famously, there is Readability, but they seem to recently have undergone some sort of grotesque metamorphosis and now I can't tweak the bookmarklet of theirs that I have. (You can still get a version of their bookmarklet for free, but My Ego Is Not Satisfied.)
Runners up:
- I just found this great one called PrintWhatYouLike, which lets you select different parts of a webpage to keep or remove. Best of all, it offers a 'save as...' option, meaning it saves a streamlined version of the HTML of that page for you, not the original HTML with a different CSS sheet.
- NotForest is a readabilty-esque bookmarklet, but with minimal customization options and when you save the HTML file, the customizations go away.
- Scrapbook was recommended on one of the ebook forums as a good way to capture and combine multiple HTML files. I'm still playing around combining it with Readability/something to have ULTIMATE COSMIC POWER (TO SAVE ALL THE FANFIC IN A HANDY EBOOK-FRIENDLY FORMAT). Of course, it actually has it's own 'element-deleter' where you can click on all the bits of a webpage that you don't want, so that might actually just be easier. And of course, the main thing (for me) is to have the directory everything saves to be something I will remember to save in the event of a hard drive meltdown or similar, so there's that weakness, but nothing is saved directly in your browser, and it is all accessible from any folder browser.
- ClipR was okay, except not very customizable (the font is GIANT on my screen), and it doesn't strip out the images or comments (which could be a plus for some people). Again, doing file --> save as... in firefox doesn't save the changes, but it might work well in conjunction with Scrapbook. But honestly, at that point, I might as well skip the middleman (and the FUCKING ANNOYING light grey background color OMG LET ME TELL YOU A LONG AND DETAILED STORY ABOUT HOW MUCH I HATE IT WHEN WEBSITES DO THAT (YES, INCLUDING THE DEFAULT DREAMWIDTH PAGE OMFG HATE STAB)) and save everything with Scrapbook and be done with it.
- A bunch of other bookmarklets were a total bust since they seemed to go and re-get the webpage outside my browser where I am signed in, which results in the LJ age warning page in a really clean layout, which is less than useless.
And this last part is mostly for my own reference:
- This and this discuss how to do the merging multiple HTML files into and ebook sitch.
- vHtmlMerger got positive reviews on the 'merging HTML files issue', haven't checked it out.
-
gigantic mentioned eCub as being good for something, haven't checked it out, has portable version!
