Well...you're the one who disappeared for months on end with nary a word so that you could play with Pyrenees goat farmers...

Piss off! 

with both. I keep praying that You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login will complete.

I liked The Real Life of E A Masen so much that...I am reading a WIP! 

Vancouver-Canuck-Girl's You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login . It has the same charm and humour as Real Life - it could almost be a prequel, but it definitely is a completely different story. It has at least one actual Laugh-Out-Loud moment in every chapter and some great one-liners.

I'm following Awkwardly and I'll have to check out Midnight Desire...As long as it doesn't get me committed to a home for the insane...

I'm reading Power Tools and Pearls as suggested earlier and I must say, my flat in in need of some serious 'renovations'...

Piss off! 

I'm following Awkwardly and I'll have to check out Midnight Desire...As long as it doesn't get me committed to a home for the insane...

I'm reading Power Tools and Pearls as suggested earlier and I must say, my flat in in need of some serious 'renovations'...

*hides sledgehammer behind wall*

I need some renovations too... 

I read Midnight Desire years ago - it was possibly my first humorous twific. I remember thinking that she did such a great job - the characters are all completely cannon...but AH! I might even re-read it - and then read the existing chapters of the sequel.

I'm sorry - All I saw was this:

and I'm gone!

As I was writing it I was thinking the same thing."this edward will go down."  Admit it, we're all thinking about ourselves!

 
Although, with my new technique to supress my gag reflex I would really love to return the favor.

Will it be OK for me to say that in my opinion Tony Abbott has 'crazy' eyes? I'm wondering? How's his politics?   

Ugh - Aussie politicians are all crazy - and the crazy just gets worse during election campaigns.

I really don't even know who to vote for! For every decent thing one of them does, they do two stupid things -

I want Education and Health to be removed from political agendas but because of funding, that's never going to happen.

Current PM (Rudd) is a complete megalomaniac - he has only been back in office for a few months after his party knifed him in the back and then knifed his replacement - the Labour Party has self-destructed.

The Liberal Party is led by Abbott and, as you said - Crazy Eyes! And google "Tony Abbott Budgie Smugglers" for something you really don't want to see about your nation's leader! He's very fit - does triathlons - but unless you're built like Chris Hemsworth or Kellan Lutz, speedos should be outlawed!

Might be a case of Eeny Meeny Miney Moe when I actually get in the booth. 

Yep it is! In FFD you can customise the information Calibre stores on each fic. You can get it to sort by Character type, I just do Edward and Bella, I even have a 'flounce' column (with date) because I optimistically thought, when I first started collecting fics, that I'd be doing that, no such luck, I even have a TBR column which tell me if the fic is on my Ipad TBR or not...yeah, I flove FFN!  And Ella because she's my Calibre guru 

Will it be OK for me to say that in my opinion Tony Abbott has 'crazy' eyes? I'm wondering? How's his politics?   

EDIT OMfuckingG Constructionward!!! *fans herself then runs and sticks her head in the freezer* Was Power Tools and Pearls part of the DTE comp becuase if it wasn't it really should have been!

If you haven't read Color of Loneliness by ExquisiteEdward you might want to give it a go.  Her Constructionward is grumpy and so very smexy.  You can find it here You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login  She had pulled it to publish under Color of Loneliness (Color #1) by Madeleine Beckett You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login

If you haven't read Color of Loneliness by ExquisiteEdward you might want to give it a go.  Her Constructionward is grumpy and so very smexy.  You can find it here You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login  She had pulled it to publish under Color of Loneliness (Color #1) by Madeleine Beckett You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login

I haven't read this it's on my TBR but it's been rec'd before and I remember thinking I must move that up my list. I really liked Rochelle Allison's constructionward in Air; but then I really like her stories.... But bloody hell I floved Power Tools!

I haven't read this it's on my TBR but it's been rec'd before and I remember thinking I must move that up my list. I really liked Rochelle Allison's constructionward in Air; but then I really like her stories.... But bloody hell I floved Power Tools!

I read this yesterday, and it is awesome. It's beautifully written. Loved it! (Air)

This is that "metadata" stuff the Ellachanted keeps mentioning that causes me to have heart palpitations, right?

I am loving what I do with Calibre (converting real books from mobi to epub and removing DRM, and grabbing fic anthologies) but I don't do much else.

I have a million and one recently completed fics that I need to grab, but I keep procrastinating. My plan was to have a play with Calibre and figure it out - I was going to do it this weekend.

I've only used calibre to convert books. Last weekend, i learned to change the metadata(?) which was simply to rename the book title and insert the author so it will help me store/search thm better.

Astro sending me complete contest anthologies made me think i can combine several installments of 1 book into just one, again for easier reading/searching...of course i couldn't do it. Also in that metadata tab is combine (if my spotty memory serves me right). So i tried selecting part 1 and 2 and combine them, electing to delete the other book after combining.  Opened the "combined" and nothing. Just saw part 2 gone fom the library. Part 1, the supposedly surving combined one, is unchanged. Help pls!

Can we really do that in calibre?
1. Select several books and combine them in 1?
2. How do we combine them in sequence? Will i have to change the metadata first so it says 1,2,3,4  etc and calibre will automatically sort it according to file name so it will combine/merge it in correct order?

Thanks in advance for helping me 

Talking about huge TBR lists. I'm trying to think of a way to be more 'selective(?)' about what I Calibre because really, it is getting way out of hand; almost 2500 fics in just over a year? Every single story that has been rec'd here since we started has been added, if I didn't already have it, to my Calibre. That's nuts! So I've decided not to 'collect' any stories less that 20 Chapters. If it less than 20 I just read them on FFN, love them and release them back to the mother lode! I haven't actually put this into practice yet so I wanted your opinion ladies...Does that sound 'doable', sensible? I feel I have to think up some sort of criteria on what I keep or else I'll never catch-up or get ahead of my TBR list, I'll be dead before I get to finish all these stories. The only way this ends well is if every single Twific author stopped writing fics forever!

I'd really like opinions and suggestions.  I'm off to bed 02.35 GMT. I look forward to suggestions tomorrow, or, I suppose, later today i more accurate   

I am in the same quandary. Have not even used calibre to download, just downloaded those that were rec'd or looked interesting to me based on the summary... And i still have over 1,500. I have stopped downloading one shots and read it in ffn. I will only download it if i liked it. Its great that astro sent me compilations of the contests so i didn't have too many titles, they're all neatly in 1 book. 

I have opted to read first the shorter ones, those less than 500 pages. I remove more titles from my list faster this way.

When i get the time, i will start reading the summaries again and decide which ones to delete to prune it down. However, with the girls here reading so fast, resulting in several recs daily, i am not optimistic that i can significantly bring down my numbers... This is for fanfics only, i have about 2,000 real books to sift through as well.

On the bright side, i will likely have much to read to occupy me during my retirement 16yrs from now. 

OK - Found it! It was the lovely Bluegeek!

With the FanficDownloader plugin for Calibre, if you choose the "Get story URLs to download from webpage" option, and put in the profile link for the contest, you will be given the option of "Individual books" or "Anthology epub".  The Anthology epub option puts them all in to one epub file.  I don't know if this is a newer option on the fanfic downloader plugin because I downloaded it recently.

Alternatively, I miss read your post and was trying to figure out how to put all the summer contests into one file, and found the "EpubMerge" plugin, and it will merge files together.  I plan to use this to attach outtakes to the end of stories so I don't have to go hunt for them on my ereader.

A little job I've been thinking of doing is getting all the one shots of authors that I really like together and merging those as an anthology of sorts. I'll need to have a think as to how to do this.

I do not miss the days of cutting and pasting every chapter of every fic into word and then converting into pdf.

You probably never thought you'd hear this from me, but...