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