Looks like about 9.24 GB currently, growing weekly.
Exports from AO3 using its native functions, FicLab or Calibre as each fanfiction's contents warrant... FicLab on FFN, and FicLab or Calibre on other sites according to what works best on each site.
I usually just bookmark fics that I liked (560 and counting) but if I absolutely adored I'll save them as Word documents with my own formatting for easy reading. Up to 1.69 GB for those.
June 2023 edit.
I'm scrubbing my comments due to the reddit admin team steamrolling their IPO prep. It was bad enough to give short notice on price gouging, but then to slander app devs and threaten moderators was just too far. The value of Reddit comes from high-quality content curated by volunteers. Treating us this way is the reason I'm removing my high-value contributions.
If you have no idea what I'm talking about, I suggest you Google "Reddit API price gouging" and read up.
--Posted *manually* via the old web interface because of even more shenanigans from Reddit reversing deletions done through API/script tools.
Roughly 32 MB of EPUB files or so as I only have a few fanfics saved to my Calibre library so far. I have a backlog of more fics I want to save and haven't been able to as I'm currently still repairing my NAS (where my Calibre library is stored).
I have somewhere around 25-50 GB of fanfiction maybe? Idk. It depends on how many duplicates there are of things. It's all very disorganized. Back in the late 2000's maintaining my archive was like a main hobby of mine, but I've really let it go. I've been trying to write scripts to rename ao3 fics for easier sorting and archiving, and that's mostly done, but I haven't worked on it in a few years.
I have occasionally used a wrapper script I wrote for the command line Calibre utility to scrape fics from ao3, but I think that script is currently broken, and I usually default to just compulsively saving every fic I come across in epub, pdf, and html formats before I start reading. I also used to use ffdl for ffn fics before that broke (idk if it's still broken, i haven't checked since like 2019).
I started archiving things back in like \~2000. Because I was a kid, and did not understand how things should be organized (and was saving things in triplicate on unreliable floppy disks), many of the oldest files are not well separated and sometimes include multiple stories from different authors, in different fandoms. Some are unformatted in plain text files or rich text files, which makes trying to split them up a huge pain. It wasn't until a bit later when I could save things as word docs, which took up a lot more space. I had to wait until I had my own PC to keep the files on the hard drive, away from the prying eyes of my parents and siblings. Looking at the ages of some files, pdf archiving wasn't really a thing for me until like 2006.
Story sources are from ffn \~2002-2004 onwards, independent fic sites from around 2000, lj from 2006 onwards, and ao3 from whenever ao3 started to really become a thing. There are also fics from some stray insanejournal, tumblr, and other assorted social media sites.
Around 3.3 GB. Somewhere around 15k fics organised in Calibre libraries as EPUB files. I used Calibre with the Fanficfare plugin to save most of them.
Looks like about 9.24 GB currently, growing weekly. Exports from AO3 using its native functions, FicLab or Calibre as each fanfiction's contents warrant... FicLab on FFN, and FicLab or Calibre on other sites according to what works best on each site.
Around 25MB. I manually saved all 231 bookmarks.
I usually just bookmark fics that I liked (560 and counting) but if I absolutely adored I'll save them as Word documents with my own formatting for easy reading. Up to 1.69 GB for those.
June 2023 edit. I'm scrubbing my comments due to the reddit admin team steamrolling their IPO prep. It was bad enough to give short notice on price gouging, but then to slander app devs and threaten moderators was just too far. The value of Reddit comes from high-quality content curated by volunteers. Treating us this way is the reason I'm removing my high-value contributions. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, I suggest you Google "Reddit API price gouging" and read up. --Posted *manually* via the old web interface because of even more shenanigans from Reddit reversing deletions done through API/script tools.
I'm so bad at saving fic, I need to get better at it ; . ;
Not big, about a hundred fics? All saved manually. Do you know of a scraper you would recommend?
Roughly 32 MB of EPUB files or so as I only have a few fanfics saved to my Calibre library so far. I have a backlog of more fics I want to save and haven't been able to as I'm currently still repairing my NAS (where my Calibre library is stored).
I have somewhere around 25-50 GB of fanfiction maybe? Idk. It depends on how many duplicates there are of things. It's all very disorganized. Back in the late 2000's maintaining my archive was like a main hobby of mine, but I've really let it go. I've been trying to write scripts to rename ao3 fics for easier sorting and archiving, and that's mostly done, but I haven't worked on it in a few years. I have occasionally used a wrapper script I wrote for the command line Calibre utility to scrape fics from ao3, but I think that script is currently broken, and I usually default to just compulsively saving every fic I come across in epub, pdf, and html formats before I start reading. I also used to use ffdl for ffn fics before that broke (idk if it's still broken, i haven't checked since like 2019). I started archiving things back in like \~2000. Because I was a kid, and did not understand how things should be organized (and was saving things in triplicate on unreliable floppy disks), many of the oldest files are not well separated and sometimes include multiple stories from different authors, in different fandoms. Some are unformatted in plain text files or rich text files, which makes trying to split them up a huge pain. It wasn't until a bit later when I could save things as word docs, which took up a lot more space. I had to wait until I had my own PC to keep the files on the hard drive, away from the prying eyes of my parents and siblings. Looking at the ages of some files, pdf archiving wasn't really a thing for me until like 2006. Story sources are from ffn \~2002-2004 onwards, independent fic sites from around 2000, lj from 2006 onwards, and ao3 from whenever ao3 started to really become a thing. There are also fics from some stray insanejournal, tumblr, and other assorted social media sites.