On setting up Calibre for fanfic
Jan. 20th, 2019 03:16 pmUpdated Jan 2020 to add guide about custom columns for chapters and for multiple series, telling FFF to scrape more kinds of metadata, and adding them all to your title page or an updated-metadata log at the end.
I was asked on Discord for a tutorial about using Calibre for fanfic in general! Please feel welcome to share or link this wherever, because it was more work than I realized it would be when I started and I want it to be useful to people. Also feel free to ask any clarifying questions! I enabled anon comments and everything.
Firstly you want to download Calibre, if you haven't already. In calibre, click on the arrow next to the preferences button [brief edit July 2020: in a fresh install of new version of Calibre, 'Preferences' may be hidden off the top bar in the overflow menu, found by clicking the three dots on the far right side of the bar], and select 'Get plugins to enhance Calibre'. Search uninstalled plugins for FanFicFare (henceforth FFF because I'm lazy) and install it. You'll have to restart Calibre for it to take effect.
Once you have FFF installed, click on the arrow next to its button and select 'Configure FFF'. In the Customize FFF window, I'll walk you through the options I use and what they do (and any of the ones I don't use that I'm familiar with).
( A long tutorial with many sections )
Enjoy your fic reading!
Please let me know if anything is missing or unclear :)
I was asked on Discord for a tutorial about using Calibre for fanfic in general! Please feel welcome to share or link this wherever, because it was more work than I realized it would be when I started and I want it to be useful to people. Also feel free to ask any clarifying questions! I enabled anon comments and everything.
Firstly you want to download Calibre, if you haven't already. In calibre, click on the arrow next to the preferences button [brief edit July 2020: in a fresh install of new version of Calibre, 'Preferences' may be hidden off the top bar in the overflow menu, found by clicking the three dots on the far right side of the bar], and select 'Get plugins to enhance Calibre'. Search uninstalled plugins for FanFicFare (henceforth FFF because I'm lazy) and install it. You'll have to restart Calibre for it to take effect.
Once you have FFF installed, click on the arrow next to its button and select 'Configure FFF'. In the Customize FFF window, I'll walk you through the options I use and what they do (and any of the ones I don't use that I'm familiar with).
( A long tutorial with many sections )
Enjoy your fic reading!
Please let me know if anything is missing or unclear :)