#epubs

our review of Chained Flame, by @dragonsaffron

If you're looking for a fantasy story with the themes and trappings of European folklore from before modern conventions, than this is it. The Chained Flame reads like an old fairy tale, but longer and as deeply satisfying and introspective as any other novel could be, and with the dragon as the hero. Masterfully crafted.

And if you're yearning to feel the crunch of bone and drip of blood from between your teeth, an insatiable fire burning in your gullet, your claws raking through the loam of old land or the baked clay of well trod roads, this is also it.

Be it known, this is a tragedy, in the classic sense, and a very satisfying one at that.

We, as fellow dragons, are extremely picky about the stories we recommend regarding our kind. We hold no reservations with this one. It's one of the best.

--- You can read this story in its current form on Scribblehub.

Or, we encourage you to pre-order the epub and pdf of the book from Saffron's itchio page:

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Heliotrope hues of dusk creep up behind the melting sunset, calming the raging gusts of the sea to caresses of the breeze. Wisps of ghostly silver swirl hazily amongst sporadic speckles of spangling starlight like a stewing soup in the sky, its delicate marbling mirrored on waves that twinkle under the moonlight. Skull and crossbones whip in the wind and the ship rocks lazily as if lulled to sleep by the cradle of the sloping sea. You sigh, contented, and pray to avoid a watery grave for many moons to come.

or, Books Master list:

A Series of Unfortunate events by Lemony Snicket, 1 through 13(Epubs)

Tales of Dunk and Egg by George R. R. Martin 01-03, 1, 2 & 4(Epubs)

A song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin, 1 through 5, including 4.5, A World of Ice and Fire, and Fire and Blood(no.1 is a PDF, the rest Epubs)

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas, 1 through 4(Epubs)

All For The Game by Nora Sakavic, 1, 2, &3(Epubs)

Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery, 1 through 8(Epubs)

The Fowl Twins by Eoin Colfer, 1&2(Epubs)

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer, 1 through 8(PDFs)

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell, 1, 2, &3(no.3 is a PDF, the rest Epubs)

Chaos Walking by Patrick Ness, 1,2 &3, including 2.5 and snowscape(snowscape is a PDF, the rest Epubs)

Chronicles of Alice by Christina Henry, 1&2(Epubs)

City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab, 1,2 &3(no.1 is a PDF, the rest Epubs)

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi, 1&2(Epubs)

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu(Epub)

Heaven's Official Blessing by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu(PDF)

The Scum Villain's Self Saving System by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu(Epub)

Discworld by Terry Pratchett, 1 through 41(Epubs)

Divergent by Veronica Roth, 1,2 &3, including 0.5(Epubs)

Earthsea by Ursula k. Le guin, 1 through 6(Epubs)

The Farseer Trilogy by Robbin Hobb, 1,2 &3(PDFs)

Fence by Sarah Rees Brennan, 1&2(Epubs)

Folk of the air series by Holly Black, 1,2 &3(Epubs)

Harry Potter by J K. Rowling, 1 through 7(Epubs)

Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, 1, 2&3(Epubs)

In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan(Epub)

Tears waiting to be Diamonds by Sarah Rees Brennan Parts 1&2(PDFs)

Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini, 1 through 4(Epubs)

The History of the Middle Earth by J R. R. Tolkien, 1 through 12(Epubs)

The J R. R. Tolkien collection: Bilbo's Last Song, Tales from the Perilous Realm, The Children of Hurin, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Hobbit, the Hobbit(enhanced edition), The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun, The Letters of J R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (collection) Illustrated by J R. R. Tolkien; Alan Lee, The Lord of the Rings (collection), The Return of the King, The Silmarillion, The Silmarillion(illustrated) by J R. R. Tolkien; Ted Nasmith, The Two Towers, Unfinished Tales(Epubs)

The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer, 1 through 5, Including 3.1(4&5 are PDFs, the rest Epubs)

Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard by Rick Riordan, 1, 2&3, including From the Nine Worlds and Hotel Valhalla Guide to the Norse Worlds(Epubs)

Once Upon a Broken Heart by Garber Stephanie, 1&2(Epubs)

Percy Jackson by Rick Riordon, 1 through 5, including 4.5, Camp Half Blood confidential, Demigods and Monsters, Percy Jackson and the Singer of Apollo, Percy Jackson's Greek Gods, and Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes(Percy Jackson and the Singer of Apollo is a PDF, the rest Epubs)

The Heroes of Olympus by Rick Riordan, 1 through 5, including The Demigod Diaries(Epubs)

The Trials of Apollo by Rick Riordan, 1 through 5, including Camp Jupiter Classified(Epubs)

The Demigods of Olympus - An Interactive Adventure by Rick Riordan(Epub)

Shades of Magic by V. E. Schwab, 1,2&3(PDFs)

The Dark Artifices by Cassandra Clare, 1,2 &3(Epubs)

The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare, 1,2&3(Epubs)

The Last Hours by Cassandra Clare, 1&2(Epubs)

The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare, 1 through 6(Epubs)

The Eldest Curses by Cassandra Clare 1(Epub)

Shadowhunter Chronicles extras by Cassandra Clare, including An Illustrated History of Noble Shadowhunters and Denizens of Downworld, Ghosts of the Shadow Market, The Bane Chronicles, and the Shadowhunter Codex(Epubs)

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo, 1&2(Epubs)

The Grisha Trilogy by Leigh Bardugo, 1,2&3, including 1.5 and the Darkling Prequel - Demon in the Woods(Epub)

Skullduggery Pleasant by Derrick Landy, 1 through 14, including 1.5, 2.5, 6.5, 7.5, 8.5, &13.5(Epubs)

The Kane Chronicles by Rick Riordan, 1,2&3, including The Kane Chronicles survival guide, and Demigods and Magicians(Epubs)

The Locked Tomb by Tamsyn Muir, 1,2 &3, including 0.5 and 2.5(Epubs)

The Magesterium series by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare, 1 through 5(Epubs)

The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater, 1 through 4, including 4.5(Epubs)

The Dreamer Trilogy by Maggie Stiedvater, 1&2(Epubs)

The Witcher by Andrzej Sapkowski, 1 through 6, including 0.5 & 0.75(Epubs)

The Wolves of Mercy Falls by Maggie Stiefvater, 1,2&3(Epubs)

Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas, 1 though 7, including 0.5(Epubs)

The Underland Chronicles by Suzanne Collins, 1 through 5(Epubs)

Unwind Dystology by Neal Shusterman, 1 through 4, including 1.5 and 4.5(Epubs)

The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice, 1 through 12(Epubs)

The Warrior cats series by Erin Hunter :The Prophecies Begin 1 through 6(PDFs), The New Prophecy 1 through 6(Epubs), Power of Three 1 through 6(PDFs), Omen of Stars 1 through 6(PDFs), Dawn of the Clans 1 through 6(PDFs), Vision of Shadows 1&2(PDFs)

A discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness(Epub)

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz(Epub)

Blindsight by Peter Watts(Epub)

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Patterson(Epub)

Dune by Frank Herbert(Epub)

Elantris by Brandon Sanderson(Epub)

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell(Epub)

Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton(Epub)

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu(PDF)

I Am Still Alive by Kate Alice Marshall(Epub)

I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver(Epub)

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami(Epub)

More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera(Epub)

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn(Epub)

More Than This by Patrick Ness(PDF)

The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness(Epub)

Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey Mcquiston(Epub)

Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepytis(Epub)

The Adventures of Charles, the Veretian Cloth Merchant, Captive Prince Short Stories Book 3 by C. S. Pacat(Epub)

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak(Epub)

City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty(Epub)

The Martian by Andy Wier(Epub)

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern(Epub)

They Both Die at the End - Adam Silvera(Epub)

The Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo(Epub)

The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang(Epub)

The Song of Achilles by Madison Miller(Epub)

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern(Epub)

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zerin(Epub)

Torture Mom by Ryan Green(Epub)

Where I End and You Begin by Preston Norton(Epub)

Radio Silence by Alice Oseman(Epub)

and it's going great!!!

look at that!! look at that beautifully locally rendered dialog box!!!

thought id start small, something with a css file and some images but nothing too fancy. it took about two hours from vague thought to much research to final success.

Hey Nonny!

Yeaaaah, I heard about that, kinda sucks.

Ah, usually I save them as PDFs by the "Print to PDF" feature (a tutorial can be found here), BUT I also know that Google Docs saves to an ePub format as well. This method is a bit more time consuming, but I imagine it's the cleanest way to do it:

On docs.google.com, make sure you're logged in, and open up a new Google doc (File > NEW). If you want to find it on your drive later (everything auto-saves on GDocs, so if you don't want to keep it on your drive, you'll also be able to find it to delete it later), give it a file name by titling it on the "Untitled" text in the top left corner next to the Blue paper icon. I would go with "Story by Author", but that's a personal preference.

For this part, have two separate windows open side-by-side, one of the fic and one of the blank Google Doc. Now, just highlight the text blocks, CTRL/CMD-C, and then go back to the Google Doc, and CTRL/CMD-V. Do this for each chapter on the Google Doc. I also would copy-paste the link as well just so you have it for reference.

If you have advanced editing skills, format the Google Doc to how you would like to read the story on your eReader (like bolding chapters, story, adding line breaks, etc.). I IMAGINE that the final output will look very similar to how you formatted it on Google Docs.

Now that you're done with your formatting and getting it to look how you want, you can now Download the story as an ePub by going to File > Download (6th down) > Epub Publication (.epub) [last option], and save it out! Now you SHOULD be able to open it on iBooks or whatever app you're using for ePub, and it SHOULD look similar to how you formatted it. I haven't tried it, so this is all speculative, but I KNOW that Google does save out Word Docs and PDFs really nicely, so I imagine the ePub thing should save nicely as well, AND it's the only way I know how to convert files to ePub <3

As I said, it's time consuming, but I think it will be worth it if you want to keep them for your Books app! If you want to go faster, save all the stories you like as PDFs first (on FFnet, for multi-chapters you have to save each chapter as a pdf, unfortunately, since they don't have an "Entire Story" feature), and then later on you can do the above steps on your own time to convert them to ePubs <3

i’d like this to be a collection which is an easily navigable, thorough, and diverse resource on media, philosophy, crafting, religion, mental health, literary theory, poetry, etc. etc. etc.

are there any topics folks would like to see in particular? any recommendations for how best to host this (via tumblr or another easily accessible, public location)?

Sure!

Let’s say that rather than collecting each individual story, I want to make an anthology of everything that a particular writer wrote. Or a series. 

Copy and paste the link from AO3 and open up calibre: 

Click on the down arrow on the FanFicFare plugin and select “Get Story URLs From Webpage.”

When the dialog button pops up, select “For Anthology Epup:”

Now, you’ll notice, from the screenshot above, that this is only 20 of the 78 works that this author is written, because that’s all AO3 will show you on a page. If you want them all, you just need to go to the next page, copy that address, and repeat. All of the URLs will then pop up in the list and you can then select Ok to create the anthology. 

The problem that I have with the anthology method is that you can’t update it. If an author completes a story or writes a new part to the series, you then have to create a whole new anthology.