Have you ever wished you could have the easy organization of the AO3 site with fanfiction you have downloaded? I've been working on a project that makes setting this up really easy, even for people with little technical experience.

The Easy Fanfic Library enables users to easily download works from AO3 and other fanfiction sites into a library in Calibre, a free e-book management application, with all the metadata (title, author, series, ratings, warnings, characters, relationships, additional tags, date posted, etc.) intact and in separate fields. This way you will be able to quickly download fanfiction and sort/filter downloaded works similarly to how you would filter on AO3 itself (including by your personal bookmark data and tags).

The library uses the FanFicFare plugin for Calibre, which enables you to download fanfiction and metadata directly into Calibre from URLs. FanFicFare can download works from a multitude of sites, including many with no built-in download option on the sites themselves.

Calibre comes with many useful features as well, such as easily sending your library to an e-reader or mobile device.

Instructions and Files: Codeberg Repository

If you have downloaded previous versions of the project, through GitHub or other file sharing, please note that this Codeberg repository is the only up-to-date version. I am no longer using GitHub for anything.

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