This is my attempt at creating an ebook version of the project lawful story/glowfic.
- I used the cache file of glowpub as a basis, because I didn't want to write my own scraper (thanks to github.com/QuartzLibrary)
- Then I hacked together a bit of C# code to generate epub files
- All external images (and optionally avatars) are included in the epub
- I went through all the avatar files and made them square images (simplified my css, and looked better - most were already squares or almost-squares)
- Various properties of the final file/layout can be changed, I generated the variants I found useful.
But if anyone wants something special it should be easy enough to clone the repo, edit Program.cs
and run make
# Variants
I recommend either the project-lawful-inline.epub
or the project-lawful-avatars.epub
variants
(the *-avatars
version contains the post profile-pictures, but is bigger and takes longer to open on older devices).
There are 3 different versions of the actual **content** of the files:
- the normal one includes all threads from projectlawful.com, including sandboxes and lectures. If there is a SFW version of a thread, it is not included (the inline/nsfw is included instead)
- the
*-sfw-*
versions have the NSFW threads replaced wih their SFW counterparts
(replaces threads 5310 with 5403, 5610 with 5618, 5638 with 5671)
- the
*-onlymainstory-*
versions do not include the sandbox threads or the (optional) lecture threads
(removes threads 5775, 5778, 5785, 5826, 5864, 5880, 6029, 6124)
There are also 5 different layout options (that I code-built) for every version above:
- the
*-inline
variant only includes the character-name of each post, and (if possible) the character-name is set inline with the first paragraph
- the
*-moreinfo
variant also includes the alignment text of each post/character after the character-name.
- the
*-avatars
variant show the character avatar beside each post. This forces us to include all 600-ish avatars in the epub file, which increases filesize and loading time
- the
*-avatars-moreinfo
also includes the alignment text (additionally to the avatar). Here the avatar/character-name/alignment-text are also no longer inlined, but get their own paragraph at the start of every post.
- the
*-biggerhtml
variant looks the same as *-inline
, but internally every chapter is a single big file (instead of multiple split files), this makes the initial loading of the epub slower, but codevents a forced page-break after every 128th post.
As said above, it should be possible to create epub's with other combination of options (see Program.cs
and Options.cs
)
# Tested on
- Kindle Paperwhite /w KOReader
- Foliate
- epub.js
- Calibre Ebook viewer
# Download