[Mandabar]

I just noticed something today. If I'm following a story, say on royalroad, that like many others likes to stub itself. Deleting chapters to make them exclusively paid for, on Amazon KU is the usual place.

Used to be, I would just get an error on update, due to having more chapters in my book copy than are available online. I would remove in-progress from the story, and make a new book with the same url to continue grabbing the newer content.

I've been updating less frequently to prevent as many hits to the site and story, so more stubbing and updates since stubbing must've happened in a few stories. What I'm referring to is... hmm..
An example.

A story has chapters 1-100. Chapters 5-40 get removed. My copy has chapters 1-100. The author keeps releasing chapters. I attempt to update the story, which is now 1-5:41-200, and it updates fine with no error message; however, it deletes from my copy chapters 6-40. Since my copy had less than the online version.

Is this a change to how it used to work, never removing content from local copy and forcing manual edits? Not sure how many stories I might've lost chapters from instead of just making a new book for. Or is this how it always worked, that I just avoided because of more frequent update scraping?

(Noticed today, was a single update and checked before updating and clearly saw the TOC lost the first book and was able to recover from recently deleted formats)

I know this has always been an issue, that had to be delt with manually by making new books.