Question How do you save your favourite novels, so you can re-read them again ?

Im usually the type of person to re-read, re-watch or re-play stuff.
But when it comes to novels, chinese novels to be precise, are kind of a gamble. Since we dont know when the novels will be censored or taken down due to a dmca or something like that.

So how do you people deal with this ? How do you save your favourite novels for later ?
Is there a place to download chapters or something ?
The only way i can think of is just like copy and paste chapters in Word and save them. But this is very tedious since most chinese novels are 500+ chapters.
And i want to save my favourite novels (Rebirth of the Legendary Guardian, Commanding wind and cloud and womanizing mage), so i can re-read them

 

make a reading list here on NU and name it "Re-read"?

 

I bookmark because I don't keep track of my NU reading list

 

search for the novel's epub but you must have an epub reader. I use it on my phone. Very convenient.

PDF format works too but not to my liking.

 

You can download its epubs and place it on a cload or storage drive.

 

google them with "epub" or "pdf" and you will find them somewhere.....

on the other hand i simple use NU, and if the original translator doesn't have them anymore i use wayback machine, pdf/epub if i don't find them i use the pirated version....

 

i copy the chapter when it's release, than paste it into word...then keep it my hdd...after 100 chapter, i make it into pdf, i don't really know how to make it into epub...

 

Using firefox on PC, I use uBlock origin to remove unnecessary content using that cosmetic filter (I have umatrix blocking images and 3rd party content already), re-pagination to load all pages, and print to pdf. Depending on the websites, you have to sift through other novel's chapters, so aggregator sites is truly the best one for this as some blog is not structured using the content (instead, they use date of posting or something, which gives you this case of loading multiple novels). Some aggregator sites has this thing where they have weird filter for swear words, so you have to set something like foxreplace to do it.

I'm sure some people can do it better than mine though.

 

Well, i don't usually re-read something, even being a favorite novel. However, i've read Warlock of the Magus World 3~4 times. I did to Reverend Insanity as well but i skipped the early part. Thats about novels, about animes i re-watch more frequently.

Oh, i got now. You ever can ripp off chapters with scripts and make documents to save. However, maybe you can talk with the translators to get the text. Wuxiaworld, for what i remember, is selling novels in e-book format. For now, I'm doing nothing, but you can save the chapter's page in the waybackmachine (https://archive.org/web/). I do this usually when sites goes down.

 

Hmm....

If i dont remember to re read them... they might have not been that great in the first place.

Also.... I see lots of pirate sites right now. So if main site goes down i guess ill have no choice but to go there or ask around for an epub. If it is good, someone must have save them.

 

Sometimes I use the URL "webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:", after "cache:" you just type the url you want. It's not perfect but helps if a website is down for a little while. Sometimes it will show dead webpages, too. Otherwise it's wayback machine or crying into a pillow after giving up.

 

Find EPUBs and PDFs where i can track them down. I also found a basic program that can compile EPUBs using story index pages for certain websites.

Apart from that, do it the old fashioned way by saving the pages directly and then making PDFs through a word processor

 

Did you actually read what he wrote?
He’s asking for an easy method to download the novels so he can re-read them, even if they get taken down and are no longer available online.

 

Always are as some translators don't even mention the censored or removed content in the chapter. Then in the next chapter or next arc, you would be wondering what the characters are referencing about. I hate it when translators or editors do that!

I never recall any such happenings on CN, but KR and JP there have been.

 

Like everyone else already said looking for PDF's and EPUB's is the way to go if the series is relatively popular. If not then you can always just use a data scraper and compile your own. Much better than manually Copy+Pasting

 

I mostly bookmark them. So I know what I like the most.