[Ariel]

Maybe I am the only one who uses this option, but I must commend this archive as being the ONLY one that I know of who offers it. I rarely ever get a chance to read things online, and downloading stories by the copy and paste method is time consuming and tedious, so I really, REALLY appreciate that this archive offers me the option of downloading every story in it's entirety as a text file. Thank you very much for this very convenient and user friendly service.

Ariel

[Robbie]

Thanks, and you're welcome.

It's been there since the beginning as this is how wifey used to read the stories too...

[Anna]

No, Ariel, you are not the only one! I´m in the same situation, and I´m oh so very grateful for the download-thingie.

So sorry for my tardiness in thanking the admins! Shame on me...

[Cressida]

I use it too, and I agree, it's great! The only thing I wish is that I could download with bolding and italics intact.

[Ariel]

Well, that would be nice, but what is there is definitely better than nothing at all.

I have my issues with this archive, as you are aware, but I must commend them when they offer such a just plain handy service. I wish more archives had thought of it.

Ariel

[Robbie]

Without wanting to ask a stupid question, how can you download plain text with bolding and Italics intact?

[Cressida]

You can't, of course. I meant that I wish I there was a download option other than completely plain text.

Still, it's a minor thing. I'm still quite happy with the option we do have.

[Robbie]

Got you. Downloading with Bolding and Italics is HTML

(Sorry, I know what you mean - a document with the whole story in with italics - but I won't be programming it.)

[Rous]

I think it is a great service. If I had one wish, it would be that it would keep the paragraph breaks intact. I have great difficulty reading them when they are all scrunched together. But, my wordpad cannot fix that, so I just do it myself. It is still better than the copy and paste method necessary at other sites. And loading all the pages in order to do so.

So, in the grand scheme of things, yet another reason to love this site. And trust me, after the month I have had, I find this one of, if not the, best site out here. Other than a couple of issues I have, this beats them all. Friendliness of the members, ease of posting, great look, great resourses. All are important.

[dolarabee]

Thanks, Rous.

For the para breaks, I think it's damn MS Word that introduces that problem when you strip a Word doc down to simple text. I know it does that on e-mail. Maybe the Programmer Guy has another trick in his hat... will have to check.

do.

[vladazhael]

I know my version of Word has an option for saving as plain text and one for saving as plain text with paragraph breaks. I used that last time, and it carried over to post just fine. But maybe that's not a feature on every version; I don't know.

[Robbie]

[Rous]

You know, after looking over my copies of stories I have downloaded, I guess I was mistaken. They add a line between the paragraphs so that I have them double spaced, but that is all. It takes up more pages when I want to print out something. So, I just go through as I read it and delete a line. I must have been thinking about something else. I can live with losing the italics and bolding. That is not so bad. And, it could be that a couple of the stories I was thinking about were not formatted correctly- no break between the paragraphs.

So, in the words of the late, great Rosanne Rosanadana, "Nevermind."