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I finally did it. I went through the entire web fiction archive and turned it into EPUBs (except the NEO manga PDF).

330 “books”, 2.24 GB

All stories have the proper metadata with title, author(s) and series (set/block/anthology) and include the proper cover image as shown on the MTG Story Archive here: https://magic.wizards.com/en/story

Link

This is the link to the Google Drive containing the files. The anthologies and chapters are separated by folder so you can choose your preferred reading experience.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CKIzFmunFLEfPgBXyHw0exEnNelG-7Ja?usp=sharing

It was A LOT of work but made much easier using a variety of software tools to automate the most important steps.

README

https://drive.google.com/file/d/16wNjwaW7YgHX4CQ_CblvD-W-_i1crzYr/view?usp=drive_link

Tools used

Future

In the future I may write custom software that would let me scrape a database of links and do every step automatically but that would take longer than the one whole day it took me to do this. There’s is also no source that I know of that has a complete mostly of all free web fiction with working links. It’s a mess on the mothership.

Enjoy!

  • Savagerocker099
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    1 year ago

    Did you consider naming them in a way that implies reading order? I’ve been in magic for 15 years and I couldn’t say with certainty what block immediately followed Tarkir, let alone each of them in order up to now.

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      1 year ago

      Gosh, I had considered that but I wasn’t clever enough at the time to come up with one. The individual stories are ordered within their blocks by the order they already on the story archive using series metadata but otherwise the blocks ebooks don’t have any ordering metadata. You’ll have to visit the mothership to see the order of the sets.

      One way to do it might be to open the anthologies books and look at the publication dates of their first chapters. I would recommend doing it that way.