Recently, I came across a backup of a now-deleted fic, that someone seems to have downloaded from ffnet using FanFictionDownLoader (yes, I mean FFDL, not FFF), in .txt format. Thus, this post has 2 purposes.
1) Thanks for making and upkeeping FanFictionDownLoader and FanFicFare, both for the ability to conveniently read fics offline, and for the ability to make backups. Thanks to you guys, I downloaded 13 fics before they were deleted from the internet, and some of the fics I have right now will most likely be deleted some day. Because of FFDL and FFF, I can read them anyway, and will continue to be able to do so until my backups fail (i.e. hopefully never). Thank you for giving me the ability to do this.
2) Clearly, the archiver had a good reason for archiving the fic as a .txt file, as he didn't just archive 1 fic, but
every fic on FFnet available. That's approximately 105 gigabytes, just as compressed .txt files. (note: archive is here:
https://archive.org/details/fanfictiondotnet_repack). A format such as html or epub would increase the file size further, and further increase the time required for making the backup, which would be bad, I assume.
However, this means that a lot of the formatting I enjoy from FFF fics, such as the TOC, doesn't appear when I convert to azw3. I assume there's some way to fix this with calibre's convert books function, or some other method, but I don't know how. Can somebody give me advice? Thanks.