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ADULT DISCUSSION HERE, SO TRY TO KEEP IT CLEAN! UM NO, WAIT! IF YOU ARE EASILY OFFENDED, LOOK AWAY NOW! 

This is the new thread as the other was sooo long and had lots of pages. Continuation of our wonderful discussions on Twilight Fanfiction, Books, and Life in general.  But mostly Twilight fanfics... and life stuff that will get me a NOT ALLOWED statement. 

Okay, here is a place to discuss what you are reading, ask for recommendations and complain about the writing.

Everyone is entitled to an opinion, so please play nice   

Because we know drypen's watching   

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I have had that error message before.  I find if I close Calibre down and then re-open it, that clears the problem.  Good luck.

I did that and I also re-booted my laptop but the error message is still there.   

I'm sure this is not a plugin update problem. Usually when you go to Preferences > Get pluginsn to enhance calibre,  you'll see a list of plugins (including FFDL) but I couldn't even go there.  As soon as I clicked on 'Get plugins to enhance calibre', I got the 2nd error message.

I might need to un-install and re-install again Calibre because so far all the other nornal fixes did not work (i.e. close down Calibre or re-start my laptop).  Or I might have to wait until the new Calibre update and hope that installing the new update will delete all the previous errors...

I haven't had that problem before.  Do you have a PC and is it 64 bit operating system?  If you do, you can run both the 32 bit version and the 64 bit version.  I do this so I can switch when I have problems with one or the other... 

And if you think it's the version you have that is causing the problem, you can get an old version on the download site, just look under the download buttons and there is a statement saying you can get older versions "here"  click on the here.  As I said, the 1.10.0 version is working fine for me. 

If you uninstall and reinstall the latest version and still have problems, you might want to uninstall and install an earlier version if you still have one. I always keep a few earlier versions on my PC, just in case an update gives me issues.

I've finally figured out the issue and fixed it!  Hourrah!  (In fact, it was my husband who figured out the issue and fixed it for me!)

After trying all the suggested fixes (close Calibre, re-start my laptop, install an earlier version of Calibre, etc) without any success, I had to ask my husband for help! So this is what happened...

Yesterday, in my sleepy state, I might have inadvertently disabled the Norton security (that's what hubby told me even though I didn't remember hitting any Norton button!).  When Norton securty is disabled, the Windows firewall default kicks in and therefore blocks the Calibre FFDL.  After I re-activated the Norton security, the FFDL started working again without fail!      Phew!

Thank you Caro, Matron, and Ella for trying to help me out!  You guys are wonderful!
 

I've finally figured out the issue and fixed it!  Hourrah!  (In fact, it was my husband who figured out the issue and fixed it for me!)

After trying all the suggested fixes (close Calibre, re-start my laptop, install an earlier version of Calibre, etc) without any success, I had to ask my husband for help! So this is what happened...

Yesterday, in my sleepy state, I might have inadvertently disabled the Norton security (that's what hubby told me even though I didn't remember hitting any Norton button!).  When Norton securty is disabled, the Windows firewall default kicks in and therefore blocks the Calibre FFDL.  After I re-activated the Norton security, the FFDL started working again without fail!      Phew!

Thank you Caro, Matron, and Ella for trying to help me out!  You guys are wonderful!

I am glad you found your fix, it's exactly the kind of thing I would have done. 

LOL! Me too... Always good to have a second pair of eyes look at things..

Glad it is fixed.   

As I've been forced into taking bedrest for a few weeks after having a scare I've managed to read a few fics.

Do take care of yourself and the baby. Hope everything is ok. 

Will read Suddenly by lyricalkris right after i finish the latest chapter of drotuno for Fire and Ice 
Thank God she updates 2x a week or else i will go crazy! Redtini takes a bit longer to update. After i finish the 4 WIPs i'm following, i vow to never to read any again. I guess with the no. of updates drotuno has, it would be ok (plus she is an awesome writer and each chapter is great). But longer and less frequent updates than that, i tend to forget the story or what happened previously so i feel i loose some "connection" with the story/characters that i don't enjoy it as much.

Am sad to hear about Paul Walker's death. Specially when he was going to or coming from a fundraiser for the victims of Typhoon Haiyan. Still young and i liked his movies. He could have brought more joy to his fans and helped those in need in the years to come. May he rest in peace. 

Not been on for over a week so only just caught up but a huge CONGRATULATIONS hun. 

As I've been forced into taking bedrest for a few weeks after having a scare I've managed to read a few fics.

Thanks we are super excited! How are you and baby feeling now?

Not been on for over a week so only just caught up but a huge CONGRATULATIONS hun. 

As I've been forced into taking bedrest for a few weeks after having a scare I've managed to read a few fics.
I read:
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login - really enjoyed it, even though it was a bit long winded (a BBQ was spread over 10 chapters - about 200 pages!!!). It was pretty light on drama and really funny in places.

You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login - really liked this one as well, it was well written and she wrote about FPIES - Food Protein-Induced Enterocolitis Syndrome (my niece has this and not many people even know it exists) which is a disorder where the person is allergic to loads of different things (such as diary, soy etc) and the authors youngest son suffers from it.
 
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login -  I know a few of you have read this already. 
I really liked it as it's rockward and it's mostly in EPOV.

I'm just starting You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login - it's actorward and written by LyricalKris, what else do you need. 

I hope all is well with you and the little one.  Bed-rest is the pits, I was in hospital a couple of weeks ago and it was horrible having to stay put in bed.

Thank goodness for kindle and fanfiction. 

Hope that you're okay now though hun. 
Definitley hun, it was either hospital or bed-rest and I've been hospital way too much this year already. 
That's why I thank my hubby everyday (but don't tell him that  ) that he got me an iPad as I seriously can't live without. 

glad you are doing better. It gets really quiet around here when both you and Astro are gone!

I decided to download my own favourite list.  It took 2 hours to go through first part; the actually processing part has been going nonstop since Friday afternoon and is still only 96% done.  If anyone is thinking about downloading my "favourites" be aware it will take DAYS

It certainly has been quiet here lately. I've been wondering about you Loopy (and Astro, Demaris, Limom, etc...)

Congratulations Andiemoe!

Sorry to hear you've been sick and hope you feel better Caro, Loopy and Astro!

To get myself out of my fanfic slump, I've been reading OF and nothing really to recommend except CD Reiss' Songs of Submission series. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login. I'm on her mailing list so I was pleasantly surprised to receive a link to an epilogue to the series (which had been marked as complete). It's so nice when authors say "thank you" in that way! Anyway, it got me off my butt to start the series, and I'm addicted. I'm on book 6 now, so I only have one more left (plus the little freebie)! I think I might take a look at your recs, Loopy, when I'm done with this and get back to fanfiction.

Hope everyone else is well!

Thanks dearie