Find Blank Chapters?

chicleeblair · 07-11-2023, 11:39 PM

I picked the best time to do it with ao3 being DDOSed and Fanfiction.net being what it is, but I'm cleaning up my fic library regardless. Because of said finickiness, I downloaded some fic with a fanfiction downloader app last year and just discovered that--likely due to cloudfare--quite a few have blank chapters. In the epub this looks like

Chapter 1 *

Chapter 2 *

SOME TEXT

Chapter 3 *

and on. Maybe because of the asterisk, full-text searching is giving me basically anything that says "chapter" in the text. Is there a better way to find empty chapters, or search, considering they have the chapter number but no text?

I have several hundred with more than one chapter.

07-11-2023, 11:39 PM	#1
chicleeblair Connoisseur Posts: 97 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2018 Device: iPad mini	Find Blank Chapters? I picked the best time to do it with ao3 being DDOSed and Fanfiction.net being what it is, but I'm cleaning up my fic library regardless. Because of said finickiness, I downloaded some fic with a fanfiction downloader app last year and just discovered that--likely due to cloudfare--quite a few have blank chapters. In the epub this looks like Chapter 1 * Chapter 2 * SOME TEXT Chapter 3 * and on. Maybe because of the asterisk, full-text searching is giving me basically anything that says "chapter" in the text. Is there a better way to find empty chapters, or search, considering they have the chapter number but no text? I have several hundred with more than one chapter.

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