SCP Foundation: Ebook edition
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yup, this is a thing now
This is some amazing work here anqxyr. Makes me want a Kindle now. I have to ask, were you able to add testing logs on separate pages and such?
(account deleted)This is epic! Excellent workmanship.
So people will read the stuff I wrote on a Kindle? That's one of my dreams coming true.
I might download this. Nice job.
Before I do, though, I have a question. How are the books organized? By SCP number or alphabetically? How are the tales organized? What about audio-based works?
Tomes 1-5 contain 001 proposals, mainlist skips, joke skips, and explained skips, in that order. Skips are ordered by number. All supplement pages are included as subpages of their respective skip.
Tomes 6-7 contain Canons and tale series, grouped by hub, with hubs ordered alphabetically and tales within a hub ordered in the order in which they're linked from hub, so probably in the order they should be read in. Tomes 8-9 contain standalone tales, ordered alphabetically.
Audio- and video-based works will probably not work, since this is a book.
This is really cool, but what happens if a tale or article get's deleted or arced? gets deleted?
LilyFlower is cute and amazing <3
Anything deleted from the site will not appear in the next update of the ebook. New updates will be released on the 1st of every month. The idea is to keep the ebook as much in sync with the site as possible.
Do you plan on handling discuss pages?
Today is the first of October, which means the SCP Ebook has been updated to include all the beautiful articles that has been posted in the past month. And this time, the book is also available in the .mobi format. But first of all, the files:
Epub
Mobi
EDIT: removed links to old versions. Please see either the first or the last post in this thread for the links to current versions.
I couldn't get Calibre to convert TCC to mobi :( . Tried four times, it freezed and 67% each time. Sorry guys, I'll look into other conversion tools for the next month's release.
All books now include the date on which they've been created, at the bottom of the license page.
No more new features this month. Next month will have better compliance with the Epub standard, and a better-structured Attributions page. Maybe some other stuff too, we'll see.
And here's the November release of the SCP Ebook.
SCP Foundation: Tomes 1-9 (epub)
SCP Foundation: Tomes 1-9 (mobi)
Good news everyone: starting this month, this thread will aso include a Monthly Digest, containing all the articles posted in the last month. And here is this month's edition:
SCP Foundation Monthly Digest: October 2014 (epub)
SCP Foundation Monthly Digest: October 2014 (mobi)
EDIT: removed links to old versions. Please see either the first or the last post in this thread for the links to current versions.
Maybe you should make a page, rather then just a forum thread for this.
How automated is the process of pulling down pages? (Just being nosey.)
Eh, I think a thread is fine. It's not really any new content, so it doesn't need its own page imo.
The process is very automated. It's changed a lot from the first versions too. It started as the ebook scrapping the pages on the go, and just saving htmls in a folder as cache. And now it's a completely separate module independent of the ebook. I run it, it does stuff for 3-5 hours, and then I have a neat 500+ mb sqlite database with all the site's content. Then any other code (ebook, stats) reads from the db. The idea is to be able to use the db as a backup in case wikidot ever dies a sudden and permanent death.
The creation of the ebooks is a bit less automated at the moment. I have to run it three times, once for the tomed version, once for the all-in-one version, and once for the digest. A single run takes about 20 minutes. Tried to make it make all three simultaneously, but run into problems with checking for duplicate pages. Will probably fix it some time later.
Any interested code-literate people can check out the source code for the whole thing at github.
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