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Enhancement for downloading stories as separate chapters rather than one massive file #51

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Are you using the CLI, web service or calibre plugin?

Calibre version

What is the story URL?

All

What is the output format you used?

Text

If calibre plugin, did you use Add New, Update EPUB if New Chapters, Update
EPUB Always, Overwrite if Newer, Overwrite Always or Update Calibre
Metadata Only?

Always Overwrite

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

If the enhancement is done, a user has the option of configuring the plug in to 
download fan fiction that is on the sites like FF.NET or MediaMiner.ORG in 
multi separate chapter format into separate files to preserve that separation.

Currently, all chapters are lumped into a single file.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

Please provide any additional information below.

In theory, while complicating download, could speed things up, as instead of 
huge stories, only need to update the parts that changed.  handy if an author 
only has a single chapter updated/changed/added.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by pcheint...@gmail.com on 13 Jul 2013 at 5:47

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
FFDL already does that for epubs.  Choose format epub and mode 'Update EPUB'.  
Only new chapters will be download next time you update it, and you can use 
calibre's Convert feature to create a text file from the epub.  I recommend 
using epub even to mobi/azw3 users.

In theory, FFDL could also do chapters for text output, but it doesn't fit well 
with calibre's assumptions.  Calibre assumes each format is a single file.  It 
handles epub, text, mobi, etc as different versions of the same book quite 
well, but it wouldn't know what to do with multiple chapter text files in the 
same book.

I'm marking this 'WontFix', but you can still add comments if you have evidence 
that I'm wrong and calibre could handle text chapters some how.

Original comment by retiefj...@gmail.com on 13 Jul 2013 at 4:06