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[Question] How do you guys compile webnovels to share?

Started by Tjhazmat, June 28, 2023, 01:46:31 AM

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Tjhazmat

I don't know if this is an appropriate question to ask here? It doesn't seem to be against any rules I could find...

I'd love to contribute to the site by uploading some webnovels that I've started reading that I can't find here.

What I want to ask is, how are you guys compiling webnovels together? Is there a piece of software your using? Or is it all done manually? Do you go through an editing/formatting process or something similar?

Given how frequently some of you post in the LN/WN sharing section, I cant imagine you are doing all that work manually. So I am genuinely curious.

I completly understand if you want to keep your knowledge as a "trade secret" of sorts, and honestly, part of my interest is getti g novels for my own entertainment (I listen at work, so it would be awesome if i could get what i want based on my own interest.) And anything I get for myself, I would love to share to this wonderful comunity.

Anyways. Thank you for all the content you all put in the work to provide to us lowly leeches. Hopefully I can become more than just a leech soon haha.

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Manually. Because i have trust issues, i prefer checking the pages one by one so i won't miss anything.

I tried using softwares, add-ons/extension, and even discord bots, but they became useless eventually after sites make proper counter-measures.

That's why i stick to manual, it never let me down. Well, it's also easy because i already have the macros i made that can check/clean/edit everything instantly.
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Tjhazmat

Thanks for the insight. Sounds like my method isn't to far off. I'm fiddling with a quick way to format the Epub(s) I'm generating.

Right now, it's good enough for my own enjoyment, but its just one block of text with no chapter breaks. Hopefully theres a quick and easy way to automate adding them and generating the table of contents.

My method, for those who see this and are interested is as follows:

  • Open the webpage to the first chapter of the web novel.
  • Save the web page as a TXT file. I use a macro to do this repeatedly, I dont have patience to sit there and manually do it.
  • Repeat for X number of chapters, saving each file into a designated folder.
  • Remove header and footer from each TXT file, leaving only the chapter title and contents.
  • Use a c# program (Thank you chatGPT for the code) to compile the TXT files in the folder into a single TXT file.
  • Use Calibre to convert the TXT into an EPUB and add cover image.



LilBig

If anyone else wants to share their process I'm also interested in learning how to compile them