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Originally Posted by crackshot91
Now, I just have a couple more questions. First: Is there a way to always update the metadata, but only overwrite the epub if it's newer on the site? Does "Always Overwrite" essentially accomplish this?
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Not exactly. You can use 'Update Calibre Metadata Only' mode to update metadata without updating/overwriting the epub, but FFDL assumes that metadata has changed only if there are new chapters.
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Originally Posted by crackshot91
Also, is there a way to set calibre to automatically convert the epub that FFDL downloads to a mobi file? I found that I need to download the book as an epub and THEN convert to mobi, so that I get the chapter marks and skipping function on my kindle. (Thanks to this thread.  ) |
FFDL, in concert with the Reading List plugin can already do that. Basically, you set FFDL to delete other formats on update/overwrite and add them to a Reading List that will be sent to your device. Then when Reading List syncs your device, it automatically converts them, too.
See
Reading List Integration for the full details.
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Originally Posted by crackshot91
And lastly, have you considered perhaps adding the ability to download all stories by a single author on a site? It's not urgent, or anything. Just an idea. Right now I use this extension to get multiple urls and it works a treat. |
Use FFDL's 'Get Story URLs from Web Page' feature. That's as close as I plan to get.
For one thing, it's more general and can be used more places. For another, I don't want to make it
too easy for people to pull large numbers of fics at a time because it's stressful on the site servers. We have had people get (temporarily) locked out of sites before for excessive traffic.
Jim