I thiiiiiink that Archive of Our Own has pre-built tools and interface points for things like feeding to mobile readers, text-to-speech apps and the like. Not sure that that's the actual reason, but it's my best guess by what that's supposed to mean.

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Iä! Iä! Moe fthagn!

That seems to be the case given the introduction they provided to their upload of NXE:

“This is a reposted work. The original creators can be found over at http://www.eyrie.net/NXE/. I claim no responsibility for this work, and just want to take advantage of AO3's download system.”

Presumably they want to convert large swaths of EPU’s output into one of the formats you’d mentioned. It seems like that would be a lot easier with some sort of software solution rather than rehosting an entire body of work on AO3, especially given the time that had to have been spent copying and pasting into their submission system. It’s pretty weird for sure, and certainly rude not to at least ask permission.

That said, it’s interesting to see the word counts for various Eyrie projects when uploaded en masse in a way that AO3 interprets as a single work. For example, Undocumented Features - uploaded as 280 seperate chapters, and presumably right up to date given that “Fable of the Reconstruction” is included - clocks in at 5,047,415 words. Which, if you use the Hugo Awards’ minimum word count requirement for the Best Novel category, 40,000 words, means that the whole of UF translates into roughly 126 short novels.

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Almost certainly. Calibre seems to be able to convert just about anything text based into whatever format you want, in a very batch-friendly way. And it's certainly not the only tool of it's kind, though the others I'm familiar with are more specialized.

But first you've got to know that the other tools exist. And if they're already comfortable using Ao3's system, it could be one of those 'if all you've got is a hammer' situations. Though I'm not sure someone would actually have to make their upload public if all they wanted to do was use the downloader...

-IA.

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Is the reposter going to go to the trouble of tagging every single character in a given EPU work, plus relevant other tags? If so then /maybe/ I can see justification for this? Because hey, someone might be looking for interesting stories with the Ghostbusters or Hyatt in them and discover this?

But otherwise this just feels kind of skin-crawly and Not Right to me.

That said, while I'm not quite sure how I found it, at some point my clicking took me to a list of fics for "Undocumented Features", and found that someone wrote their own little interlude involving Corwin, Kozue, and an OC (my guess is self-insert, but I haven't read it). I don't know how proprietary you feel about Corwin, though I can also see the hypocrisy of a fanfic author telling anther fanfic author not to use their original characters...

[...] in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
-- David Ben Gurion
EPU RCW #π
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This is starting to vaguely remind me of that ridiculous insulting "award" where they asked to use DJ Croft, Gryphon refused, and they used him -anyway- to insult NGE. Ugh.

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Authors of our fates
Orchestrate our fall from grace
Poorest players on the stage
Our defiance drives us straight to the edge

Hey, at least this one isn't hostile towards the characters or the story.

Just, uh, somewhat pornographic. Which, on the one hand, I'd feel like at least a bit of a hypocrite pointing fingers at, given some of the ideas I've gotten ? (Albeit only involving canon characters.) But... eh, I don't know, this comes across as off for reasons I'm not quite sure of.

-IA.

(and also i haven't written down any of the fore-mentioned ideas)

For pity's sake...

-Bad Moon

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[...] in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
-- David Ben Gurion
EPU RCW #π
#include <stdsig.h>