Okay, I'm back with a new question (and despite my claims to learn regex escape terms, I haven't really touched that yet oops)
I found that there's an option... somewhere... to ignore author's notes. Didn't see it in personal.ini but I might have to add it in. The question starts from the point where i don't really mind MOST author's notes, but would like to exclude author's notes from a specific work(s)... but I'm using the Anthology feature with epubmerge to download the entire series as a single work from the ao3 series url.
https://archiveofourown.org/series/1002138
what exactly would i need to add in to personal.ini to achieve this?
(I love her writing but she includes a chapter's worth of observations and rationalizations for what she does at the end of each chapter, and i'd rather just have an uninterrupted reading experience with my own takeaways. other authors notes are fine)