[nicba]

Hi

Most of the stories in the short story section are short, as the name imply. But some are rather long, ranging between 10-20 pages.

Sometimes I wish to print a story to paper. But, as of now, I think the only way to print a story is to click through every page and print each one manually. And I assume people with pay-per-online-minute modems and ISP's would have the same problem if they wish to save the story and read it offline later.

I wondered if it would be possible to get a printer-friendly version of the short stories so that they could be easily printed and read off-screen? A version with the text in one large window, perhaps even without the sffworld sidebars?

I can't remember if this has been brought up before, if it has then I appologise.

[tsn81]

I totally agree with u! I even mailed to sffworld.com about this, i hope that moderators reply to us and tell why they cant put text, zip or doc file which would include whole story.
Some user here had already posted thiskind topic, and some other user replied that you can just save them to your file with File->Save As, but whatabout where there is 32 pages like in one short story? Or in those series where is 7 stories with 20 pages in each. There is much clicking and saving in that if need to click 150 times link and save it...

[Cadfael]

Just to let you guys know I have taken note of your post, I need to check with Dag before I make an answer... I am unsure of copyright issues...

... I will respond once I know what the heck I am talking about! http://www.sffworld.com/ubb/smile.gif

[daigoro]

First of all I must say that I totally agree with you, nothing would be better than having such a feature.

However, my main problem is that doing this would seriously undermine the economical fundament for the website, and although my motivation for running the site isn’t economical, having costs higher than the income is not an option I like.

Doing such a thing would also involve quite a lot work, but my main concern is the economical aspect of it. Sorry about this and I will definitely have this in mind for future improvements to the site.

[nicba]

Doing such a thing would also involve quite a lot work, but my main concern is the economical aspect of it. Sorry about this and I will definitely have this in mind for future improvements to the site.


I never considered the economical aspect. I didn't even think about it. I can see now why that might be a problem. Thanks for letting me know.

Luckily, sffworld is already an extremely good site, so it doesn't really matter that you can't fulfill our wish http://www.sffworld.com/ubb/smile.gif.

[Aylis]

Couldn't you just copy and paste the story into a word document or something and then print it? Then you'd use up fewer minutes 'cuz you don't have to wait for each page to print while you're online...

[nicba]

But Aylis, the problem is that the stories are divided into pages. If you wish to print the long stories, you have to click through all 20-30 pages and copy-and-paste each one manually.

I'm just too lazy to do that if I can avoid it http://www.sffworld.com/ubb/smile.gif

[Cadfael]

Lazy GIT!!!

Joking http://www.sffworld.com/ubb/smile.gif

I have to say though... the quality of the stories submitted are worth the time, and the trouble of cut'n'pasting... Khared's Children is totally brilliant... and it is buckshee... tell me another site you can find this kind of thing? I mean original work!

[nicba]

You're absolutely right dennizm. Many of the stories are indeed brilliant.

And I think it's even more fun when people post their stories and then asks for feedback on the forum. We get some nice discussions going there. This site is indeed a gem!

I'm off to read again... http://www.sffworld.com/ubb/smile.gif