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Creating eBooks for an eReader from SIYE stories.

Posted on: Wed, 07/07/2010 - 19:58
Creating eBooks for an eReader from SIYE stories.

For several months I have been in the habit of converting stories I am reading from SIYE into files I can load on my eReader. I recently started using Open Office and Calibre to make the finished products smoother and easier to load and read. But I was wondering if this violates any rules I may be unaware of on SIYE.

I always make sure that I change the properties of the files to reflect the author as the pen name listed on SIYE, and I always save the standard disclaimer that all Harry Potter characters belong to Rowling. I just usually go through and delete all the authors notes, and the embedded links ( such as "back to index" at the end of every chapter), and make page breaks before the chapters. Is this okay?


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Posted on: Thu, 07/08/2010 - 13:01 #1
Sure

I don't see why not. Once an author has posted a story on a publicly-viewable archive, it's out there for anyone to manipulate as they wish. Provided that no-one attempts to post the story somewhere else under their own name, there's really no limit on what you can do with a story.

I've occasionally been tempted to take a decent h/hr (or h/other) one-shot and do a search/replace to change "Hermione" to "Ginny" and "brown" to "red". Often the female characterizations in those stories are a little hazy anyway. I've never actually done it, though.

Posted on: Thu, 07/08/2010 - 13:26 #2
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Sovran wrote:

I've occasionally been tempted to ...

I've been tempted to correct grammar mistakes, and I have corrected punctuation errors. But I chose to not essentially change the authors work, warts and all, since it was theirs and not mine.

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog it's too dark to read" Groucho Marks