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I finally did it. I went through the entire web fiction archive and turned it into EPUBs (except the NEO manga PDF).
330 “books”, 2.24 GB
All stories have the proper metadata with title, author(s) and series (set/block/anthology) and include the proper cover image as shown on the MTG Story Archive here: https://magic.wizards.com/en/story
Link
This is the link to the Google Drive containing the files. The anthologies and chapters are separated by folder so you can choose your preferred reading experience.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CKIzFmunFLEfPgBXyHw0exEnNelG-7Ja?usp=sharing
It was A LOT of work but made much easier using a variety of software tools to automate the most important steps.
README
https://drive.google.com/file/d/16wNjwaW7YgHX4CQ_CblvD-W-_i1crzYr/view?usp=drive_link
Tools used
- Tampermonkey to single out the article content on the webpage. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tampermonkey/
- SingleFileZ to download webpage and assets as a single file. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/singlefilez/
- Calibre E-Book Management to manage metadata like title, series, covers and also to generate the final folder structure. https://calibre-ebook.com/
- Bash scripting to rename downloaded .zip.html files to just .zip so Calibre can understand them.
- Irfanview to create the collages. https://www.irfanview.com/
Future
In the future I may write custom software that would let me scrape a database of links and do every step automatically but that would take longer than the one whole day it took me to do this. There’s is also no source that I know of that has a complete mostly of all free web fiction with working links. It’s a mess on the mothership.
Enjoy!
