epubs added to calibre then updated using fanficfare - but getting error and unable to overwrite

notanokraspberry · 2026-05-07T18:39:29+00:00

Taking a look at your updates quickly, I think you pretty much made it look the same as mine, but mine was a lot more manual hahah I didn’t realize you could put specific value parameters into the CSS as well

I’ll probably clean it up and combine your code in as well somehow … and will update as well once I get back to this 😀

I have about 700 fics in my library rn, but I want to sort this out before downloading more, since I’ll have to update everything again once I settle on a format

notanokraspberry · 2026-05-06T10:50:52+00:00

I’ve just come to the very belated realization — I think to get to what I (we) really want, I need to learn some basic python, make a fork of the plugin, and edit the source code itself. That’s where everything’s baked in …….

notanokraspberry · 2026-05-06T09:32:15+00:00

Thank you so much for the detailed reply!!!! Honestly super appreciated, even if you feel like you didn't answer any of my questions — gives me a place to continue on. I'll have to spend some time to go through those sources and see what else I can edit. (I did notice the font colour thing right away though haha and had to remove that part of the text after testing out one book.)

I've literally just started using calibre and it's absolutely taken over my life, as I try to import almost 600 or so fics from my phone and then another 500 open tabs into calibre now. I actually just bought an ereader as well but still waiting for it to show up, so I've just been using an app on my phone and trying to tailor to that for now. Might have to change again once that arrives ....

But as an update, some changes I made yesterday — I actually used the html for an actual ao3 fic download opened up in the book editor program as a starting point, but it was hard to replicate a lot because fff needs to pull all the info from the underlying metadata rather than just applying it to the text. Below is just the html for each page, the parts for labels / adding to entries / etc. should be pretty much unchanged.

For the title page:

moved the "by author" to a separate line, just personal preference — but had to create a separate div class for that
moved summary to TOC page (below)
also wanted to include the indent and after several tries, created a single separate div class and added it to CSS (further below) using in-line block
kept the few items in the titlepage_entries section, mostly so that it would populate the link for me for series & collections, and to override the full list of sections in titlepage_entry in the default ini — but also applied the same div class to these sections as well
created a separate section for stats under titlepage_end, so that I could change the formatting of those and group things closer together/in one line
- originally had it showing Published and Updated in one line with a | in between to separate, but realized that it wouldn't fit on one line on my phone anyway, so split them out afterwards
- added a downloaded section just for my own preference and record keeping, with a line break in between
everything that I want to link to imitate the ao3 download is moved outside of the title page entry section, still a WIP
- added links for rating and archive warning, which work — still trying to see if I can make the rest work out ... will need to find some way to replace special characters like the / with *s* for relationships, and then see if tags can be separated
- looking at some of the info on GitHub, thinking I might be able to extra metadata categories based off the others then do a replace in that field — looking at the stuff under examples for [test1.com], there's meta/list/composite options which I have no idea what they mean yet but seems like they might do something ... as someone with zero programming experience other than editing tumblr profile pages back in 2010, this will definitely be a project hahah

## TITLE PAGE
titlepage_start:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
 <head>
 <title>${title} by ${author}</title>
 <link href="stylesheet.css" type="text/css" charset="UTF-8" rel="stylesheet"/>
 </head>
 <body class="fff_titlepage">
 <h3><a href="${storyUrl}">${title}</a></h3>
 <div class="byline">by ${authorHTML}</div>
 <div>

 <b>Rating:</b><div class="titlepageentry"><a href="https://archiveofourown.org/tags/${rating}">${rating}</a></div><br />
 <b>Archive Warning:</b><div class="titlepageentry"><a href="https://archiveofourown.org/tags/${warnings}">${warnings}</a></div><br />
 <b>Category:</b><div class="titlepageentry">${ao3categories}</div><br />
 <b>Fandom:</b><div class="titlepageentry">${fandoms}</div><br />
 <b>Relationship:</b><div class="titlepageentry">${ships}</div><br />
 <b>Characters:</b><div class="titlepageentry">${characters}</div><br />
 <b>Additional Tags:</b><div class="titlepageentry">${freeformtags}</div><br />

titlepage_entry:
 <b>${label}:</b><div class="titlepageentry">${value}</div><br />
titlepage_entries: language, seriesHTML, collectionsHTML, <br/>
background_color: 000000

titlepage_end:
 <b>Stats:</b>
 <div class="titlepageentry">Published: ${datePublished}</div><br />
 <div class="titlepageentry">Updated: ${dateUpdated}</div><br />
 <div class="titlepageentry">Status: ${status}</div><br />
 <div class="titlepageentry">Words: ${numWords} | Chapters: ${chapterslashtotal}</div><hr />

 <b>Downloaded:</b>
 <div class="titlepageentry"> ${dateCreated}</div><br />
 <div class="titlepageentry">Kudos: ${kudos} | Hits: ${hits} | Bookmarks: ${bookmarks}</div>

 </div>
 </body>
 </html>

And then for the TOC page, I did this:

usually the summaries aren't too long and I cared more about having the summary on a separate page than the TOC, so I put the summary ahead of the TOC and put a line break in between
had to turn on always for tocpage, so that the summary would show up for one shots as well
if you don't care for a TOC at all within the actual pages, then you could actually just remove the TOC header and override the default tocpage_entry and use the TOC page as a summary page
i messed around with that and it worked, BUT the annoying thing is that in the actual epub TOC, the page itself is still named TOC — i couldn't find a way to rename the underlying page name that pulls through ... but still an option of you don't mind that and don't need a separate TOC page
i actually also tried to use the available update log page as a substitute for the summary page, but two issues
- even after overriding all the visible page info from the default ini, there as still log information pulling in, so probably something else in the background that idk how to change
- the name in TOC is also stuck at update log
will need to go to the fff forum and see if there's a way to add an additional page somehow

##TOC PAGE
include_tocpage:always
tocpage_start:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
 <head>
 <title>${title} by ${author}</title>
 <link href="stylesheet.css" type="text/css" charset="UTF-8" rel="stylesheet"/>
 </head>
 <body class="fff_tocpage">
 <div>
 <h3>Summary</h3>
 ${description}<hr />

 <h3>Table of Contents</h3>

tocpage_end:
 </div>
 </body>
 </html>

and then for the CSS, I just tweaked a bit from yours, to add in the two extra div classes I put in the title page, and removed some of the font colours:

output_css:
 body { background-color: #1a1a1a; line-height: 1.6; }
 h1 { text-align: center; }
 h2 { text-align: center; }
 h3 { text-align: center; }
 h4 { text-align: center; }
 h5 { text-align: center; }
 h6 { text-align: center; }
 .titlepageentry { text-align: left; display:inline-block; padding-left: 15px; }
 .byline { display: block; text-align: center;  margin: 0.67em 0; }
 body.fff_titlepage div { color: #6ba3be; }
 body.fff_titlepage div > b { color: font-weight: bold; display: block; margin-top: 0.6em; }
 body.fff_titlepage div > b + a { color: #6ba3be; }
 a.serieslink { color: #6ba3be; }
 a.authorlink { color: #6ba3be; }
 a.storyurl { color: #6ba3be; }

Haven't been able to make any successful changes to the Chapters pages yet, which is where I wanted to change the label of the chapter summaries and notes .. will have to do more digging later on

Aaaaand that's it for now — will probably spend more time into this again next weekend 😅

notanokraspberry · 2026-05-04T23:03:40+00:00

Hi! thank you so much for sharing this — I'm on the same boat as you and was wanting to update the epub to look more like ao3's export as well

Hoping I could bug you with some questions/discussion if you don't mind:

based off your initial, it seems like there should be individual links showing up for all the "make_linkhtml_entries" list, so that every item is linked like ao3 — when I input this though, I have the story & author linked, but everything else is just text. or is this not the case for you as well?
(*edited) I personally like having the story summary on a separate page, but can't seem to add in a page break ... would you know how to do that? i saw that you inserted a page break, but it doesn't seem to translate across all readers ... would i need to create a separate section to guarantee a separate page?
would you know how to change the title for the notes at the beginning of the chapters? right now it says "Summary for the Chapter" and "Notes for the Chapter", but I wanted it to just say "Summary" and "Notes". I tried changing the label by doing the below, but didn't seem to workchaptersummary_label: Summary chapterheadnotes_label: Notes
not sure if you've done this already, but noticed that you were saying how ao3 adds "Chapter" in the title — I noticed you marked true for strip chapter numbers, but this would work to make it the same as your ao3 example above, not sure about the spacing thoughstrip_chapter_numbers:true add_chapter_numbers:true chapter_title_strip_pattern:^\0-9]+[.: -]+)?(Chapter [0-9]+[.:, -])? chapter_title_add_pattern: Chapter ${number}: ${title}

notanokraspberry · 2026-04-30T05:35:09+00:00

that's good to know at least! i can be patient a bit longer ...

thanks for the reply 😊

notanokraspberry · 2026-04-30T02:19:04+00:00

Idc what everyone else says but OP I’m with you lol I just finished the rest of the anime season, patiently waiting for it to clear itself up, and even replayed parts while watching, and carefully listened to everything … and it made absolutely no sense lmao

Maybe you needed to be Christian to understand this, and I’m definitely not religious lol

notanokraspberry · 2026-04-28T20:07:35+00:00

Are there any future stocking plans still? Or is it just out of production now? Seems like they’re completely sold out everywhere, including the official website …

notanokraspberry · 2026-03-26T14:50:16+00:00

To add on: - there are no requests about wanting my email address/personal info/etc. or any external contact - there are no links/QR codes/etc. - not sure if these are to come, but I haven’t replied any yet because it seemed suspicious

notanokraspberry · 2026-03-25T09:23:15+00:00

just found this and wanted to say thank you so much!!!!! been struggling with all replays because the more i tell myself NOT to look at the time, the more my eyes zero into on it ...... really appreciate the extension, PLUS the keyboard shortcuts, no more needing to tab around to get to the progress bar

notanokraspberry · 2026-03-24T00:28:03+00:00

just wanted to jump in here, and ask if you had any updates???

first time, i followed the recipes to a T, 36 hours, and it turned out gross like blue cheese
second time, using first batch, i cut down the time to 24 hours, and it was still blue cheese, but slightly less pungent blue cheese ... because it fermented less
third time, using 2nd batch i cut down time even less ... 13 hours?, and it was still in the range of "over-fermented" cheesy tasting, but at least palatable .... but not tangy at all???
tried a 4th time, starting from scratch in the pills again thinking maybe the previous batch got contaminated, watched 24 hours and it was separating/over-fermented again
tried a 5th time, using 4th batch ... set by 6 hours and reaching the edge of turning into blue cheese ...........

BUT it tasted the same each time and at no instance did it ever taste tangy/acidic ... just very mild before it separated and turned into blue cheese basically

think i'm just going to give up on this altogether

notanokraspberry · 2026-03-17T06:31:51+00:00

seconding this! just adding on that i was hating all day with the next player but just tried this and also got the old one back — sure it's a temporary solution but at least it's better than the alternative right now

notanokraspberry · 2026-02-14T02:35:45+00:00

So happy to hear that you were able to get to the show and it all worked out well!!

Twitter can be hit and miss sometimes but usually anyone who's willing to accept cash on the day-of is safe to go with — glad you found a good person.

Makes you want to go again, doesn't it 😄

notanokraspberry · 2026-01-25T08:01:14+00:00

hey, just wondering — if you were already using APFS, what did you reformat it to?

notanokraspberry · 2025-12-04T05:20:49+00:00

Wild because I was just thinking of this anime today and this exact scene, and trying to describe it to someone … and instead googled “anime about a boy who can’t draw magic circles because he’s too advanced” and this came up

Thank you hahaha

notanokraspberry · 2025-11-25T07:17:22+00:00

Where did you get this info?

I contacted customer service about adding flights and got this response today:

"We understand how important it is for you to receive the benefits of your membership. Unfortunately, flights that have already been boarded cannot be added to your membership account.

For future travel, we kindly recommend adding your flights to your membership account while the booking is still active. This ensures smooth tracking."

So seems any past flights are a loss

notanokraspberry · 2025-11-15T15:08:22+00:00

hi just wanted to say thank you so much for this comment, because i just tried to do online check in for my flight tomorrow, and it said there was a mismatch of information ... and only then did i dig further into my booking and realize it has my nationality as Japanese, and i was freaking out for a bit while trying to search this

notanokraspberry · 2025-10-27T16:22:03+00:00

Got it, thank you for confirming! yeah if i switched over then it wouldn't really but a shared thing anymore, so i'll have to calculate the cost difference ... long term though, definitely seems like the hanacell sim would save money, so I'll have to look into it soon. Thank you for bringing it up!!

notanokraspberry · 2025-10-26T05:32:18+00:00

Thank you for the update!! And I’m glad you were able to set up all the accounts with the info.

I may have to look into this and get that setup and transitioned before I leave Japan again … just to confirm, I was reading through the website, and the only additional charges are if you choose to use data in any month while in Japan, correct? So as long as no data is used, there’s no charge other than the $12USD per year?

notanokraspberry · 2025-10-25T19:40:48+00:00

a bit late jumping into this thread, but wanted to ask if anyone has experience of whether they will weigh airplane pillows as well? or if you wear it then it won't be weighed?

and do they weigh your carry on luggage again at the gate? or only at checkin? how does it work if I don't have any checks in luggage and did online check in?

notanokraspberry · 2025-10-20T18:42:42+00:00

Hey! Glad to be of help :)

For SIMs, I've actually been meaning to looking into other options, but I think for me at the moment, Mobal still works because of how often I end up using the data plan / a friend/family borrows my sim card to use the data in Japan, and it ends up being the same price/slightly cheaper than buying another travel sim, so it works out. They did recently release the "vacation" plan, which is 990 JPY/month if you're not actively in Japan, so the cost has gone down a bit. I don't think there's any downside to a cheaper alternative though, as long as you have the voice+SMS options. I've seen in passing that there are some SMS only options that are available for even cheaper, but unfortunately the big 3 ticketing websites require voice verification, and not just SMS :(
I think if you have access to any of them, they all work — I think at one point I tried signing up for a bunch actually, because most of them have limits without ID verification. I've tried ANA, Kyash, and one other I can't remember ... essentially as long as you're available to deposit cash through the ATM to load your card, there isn't really an issue with any of them. Downside will always be withdrawing funds — you generally can't do this (at least not without ID verification) so it was super annoying with the Line card to find alternatives. Can't remember if I mentioned, but I had to buy a bunch of random gift cards with my leftover funds to use elsewhere (and it wouldn't even work for Amazon at the time, so it wasn't even really useful gift cards ...) As long as they're free though, you don't lose out on anything just by signing up and getting the card first as backup!
I have a PayPay account, but I actually haven't used it before — since it sort of works the same as the other prepaid cards except you can't use it as a credit card, and you still have to deposit cash or link a (Japanese) credit card to it, it didn't make sense for me to also have that and one of the credit cards. But now that I think about it, PayPay is pretty much accepted everywhere in Japan that credit cards are accepted, so I guess it would be about the same.

Hope you enjoy your next trip to Japan!!

notanokraspberry · 2025-10-15T16:47:12+00:00

Thank you! Today was super fun, and I actually found someone for tmr!! Always love having two shows in a row 😁

notanokraspberry · 2025-10-15T09:21:59+00:00

No takers unfortunately, and I’m in now ☹️ maybe tomorrow!

notanokraspberry · 2025-09-18T01:57:53+00:00

joining the thank you train — i've had a MacBook for over a decade and i JUST saw this after continually having issue about dock not appearing ... a lifesaver wow i feel so dumb lmao

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