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Originally Posted by cklls
It's clear that they've never given this any thought while their competitors are, at the very least, allowing compilation for printing that allows saving as a full document. Many sites, AO3 and harrypotterfanfiction.com to name just two that I use, have added the ability to download as epub or send directly to a Kindle. FFN is missing the boat and is far behind other fan-sites on this.
That might get them to recognize that we're not attacking them, just trying to access their product in a way that they've not accommodated.
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I wouldn't be so sure that they've not given any thought to it. An issue is that FFN is an advertisement funded site whereas AO3 is donation funded. Using FFDL or hypothetically providing an epub as a whole work as opposed having each chapter separately on FFN webpages, drives/would drive down their ad views, which essentially means that people who are actually reading on the website are subsidising the people using FFDL because they actually provide revenue, while FFDL users just add to costs.