Metadata in Downloads - Title and Author but not Fandom?

[meridian_rose]

I love AO3 and I especially love the download feature so I can grab longer works and put them on my e-reader. Free bedtime reading for the win! I generally download in epub format and am overall satisfied with the results with one small caveat.

The metadata for a downloaded epub contains the fic title and the author name. However I'm in a lot of fandoms and tend to upload a lot of fic to my ereader in one go a few times a year rather than occasional updates regularly. Then I often have no idea, when I come to read some of my recently uploaded fic, which fic is which – ie which fandom, without opening several new fics until I find the one I want.

I'm currently saving an epub as fictitle-fandom-author.epub, then opening the downloaded epub in calibre, adding the fandom to the title metadata, and converting to an epub (ie making a copy of the epub with the new title) so when I look on my reader I can see the amended title.

So: Title becomes Title-Fandom and displays as
Title-Fandom (by) Fic Author on my ereader.

There has to be an easier way to do this? Could this be a possible adaptation to the download feature? Maybe an opt-in one?

Comments

[meridian_rose]

It sounds like a lot of work :/ Would anyone find it objectionable, I wonder to have it as Title(Fandom)+ Author instead. Which is assuming there's ever anyone able and willing to update the feature. Thanks for the response :)

[samjohnsson]

Parens in filenames range from a questionable habit to A Very Bad Idea, depending on operating system. Especially since many of the fandom names included parens for media disambiguation. Off the top of my head, it would in theory be possible, but it'd require someone to poke the code and not get bit by it.

That all said: http://ao3.org/support and send in a request for what you'd like in the eventual file name, and a vote for tab support. (While Support and Coders lurk absolutely everywhere, we don't record everything we see.)

[meridian_rose]

Thank you for that link, will do :)