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I finally did it. I went through the entire web fiction archive and turned it into EPUBs (except the NEO manga PDF).
330 “books”, 2.24 GB
All stories have the proper metadata with title, author(s) and series (set/block/anthology) and include the proper cover image as shown on the MTG Story Archive here: https://magic.wizards.com/en/story
Link
This is the link to the Google Drive containing the files. The anthologies and chapters are separated by folder so you can choose your preferred reading experience.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CKIzFmunFLEfPgBXyHw0exEnNelG-7Ja?usp=sharing
It was A LOT of work but made much easier using a variety of software tools to automate the most important steps.
README
https://drive.google.com/file/d/16wNjwaW7YgHX4CQ_CblvD-W-_i1crzYr/view?usp=drive_link
Tools used
- Tampermonkey to single out the article content on the webpage. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tampermonkey/
- SingleFileZ to download webpage and assets as a single file. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/singlefilez/
- Calibre E-Book Management to manage metadata like title, series, covers and also to generate the final folder structure. https://calibre-ebook.com/
- Bash scripting to rename downloaded .zip.html files to just .zip so Calibre can understand them.
- Irfanview to create the collages. https://www.irfanview.com/
Future
In the future I may write custom software that would let me scrape a database of links and do every step automatically but that would take longer than the one whole day it took me to do this. There’s is also no source that I know of that has a complete mostly of all free web fiction with working links. It’s a mess on the mothership.
Enjoy!
Very nice, bookmarked. Is Note for a Stranger somewhere in there? I could not find it in DMU or BRO folders.
Do you plan to broaden it to include all story articles as listed at MtG Wiki?
It’s there! On the story archive layout it’s under its own “set” called “Pride Across the Multiverse” so that’s the “set” I put it under. I was not aware it was part of DMU or BRO. I actually started this project to keep me catch up on the story.
Did you consider naming them in a way that implies reading order? I’ve been in magic for 15 years and I couldn’t say with certainty what block immediately followed Tarkir, let alone each of them in order up to now.
Gosh, I had considered that but I wasn’t clever enough at the time to come up with one. The individual stories are ordered within their blocks by the order they already on the story archive using series metadata but otherwise the blocks ebooks don’t have any ordering metadata. You’ll have to visit the mothership to see the order of the sets.
One way to do it might be to open the anthologies books and look at the publication dates of their first chapters. I would recommend doing it that way.