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Originally Posted by JimmXinu
I strongly discourage FFDL users from using this plugin to check for updates on large numbers of stories. That causes a lot of extra network traffic on the fanfic sites and costs them and you (if you have limited Internet).
Instead, I suggest that you go to the sites you read stories from and subscribe (or follow, or alert; whatever the sites call it) the authors or stories you read so that you get an email when there are updates and then update only the stories that have updates. You can update existing books by dragging or copying the story URLs as if they were new.
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You wouldn't happen to know an easy way to mass-add alerts in fanfiction.net would you? I used to have a link that I could just insert the story ID, but I can't find it anywhere, and they've changed the site so much that I can't figure out what it is, or if there even is a way to do it anymore.
My issue is I download fanfics onto my reader, and then don't even get online for weeks at a time. So, right now I'm spending an hour or more adding books to my follow list when I'm back in town.
If there isn't a link, don't worry about it. I do use ff.net for follows currently, your comment just made me wonder if you (or anyone else) might have an easier way, such as the link I used to use.
What I figured on doing is making a catalog of the links to the stories I want to add, stripping out everything but the ID, then adding the ID to the link that adds it to follows/updates whatever ff.net calls it. That process, and using a plugin that opens lists, would turn my hour + process into a few minutes.