'Update EPUB Always' will update the title page and metadata for the story even if there are no new chapters. 'Update EPUB if New Chapters' and 'Update EPUB Always' allow you to incrementally update a story you already have, but only if you use EPUB. 'Skip' and 'Add New Book' should be self-explanatory.

This is also sometimes called collision handling. Under 'Add New from URL(s)', there's an option to choose handling for 'If Story Already Exists?'. There are more options now for how to update existing stories, whether by directly updating or by doing 'Add New' with a URL to a story that already exists in your library. There is (hopefully) better download error/update reporting now, but it could still use some more work. Again, this is because background processing updating the foreground is dangerous in Calibre. The plugin now downloads the stories, but does *not* add/update them in your library until all are downloaded and you confirm you want the updates.

If the name or author on the book had been changed, either in Calibre or on the website, it would not update the existing book in Calibre, but treat it as a different book. Before the plugin gathered URLs from the selected books, but after that treated the URL as if the user had entered it. There is now a drop down menu from the plugin tool bar button for Add/Update/Configure/About.Īlso, 'update' truly updates the book(s) selected now. Given the number of unexpected crashes I kept getting working with 1.0, I saw their point.ġ.1 uses Calibre's mechanism to launch separate background processes to download stories rather than using a background thread. I was advised by more experienced plugin developers that the way I was handling background processing was not particularly safe. Internally, 1.1 is an almost complete re-write of the plugin from 1.0. Posting FanFictionDownLoader plugin 1.1.0, hoping to get some beta testers before pushing it out.

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