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Snarry fic search + random news

I think I said a while ago that I was doing a general search-and-download of every fic I could find that I know I’ll be craving to read when my Kindle finally materialises. Both parts of my post today are born of that aim.

1. SNARRY SEARCH: snakeling to the rescue! This fic is "Through a Glass Darkly", by lexin.
I’m looking for an AU where
a) Voldemort won, and the Death Eaters are now running the Ministry and Hogwarts and everything
b) There is an Eton-type fagging system in place at Hogwarts
c) Harry is still alive (though Lily is dead, and James is as well, I think)
d) Harry and Snape get together.
It’s a delicious read, and good god I cannot find it for the LIFE OF ME on Walking The Plank, despite the fact that I strongly remember it being on that site. Please help?

2. FICS -> PDFS: After shivering all over at the thought of the Kindle when it first came out, I realised I’d have to put stuff on it. And there is only so much available for purchase that will find its way onto my as-yet-absent Kindle, so eventually I thought of creating PDFs out of my fave novel- and novella-length fics. And I say PDFs here because I’m on a mac, and am not about to bother with Parallels to load Mobipocket Creator (which I also hear isn’t a pleasant experience to use for heavy-duty book putting-togethering), especially not when I have the good fortune to have Acrobat Pro available to me.

Currently, my proposed workflow is as such: a) Ask authors/artists/whoever for permission if I can get hold of them
b) Download html files for the fic in question, including images where possible
c) Attack html files with the power of Textmate, and get them semantic and xhtmlized and so on
d) Create one or two CSS stylesheets for all the fics
e) Obsessively tweak stylesheets until the fics display really well
f) Convert fic html files + stylesheets to PDF using (hopefully) Prince XML, OR just print them to PDF using the Acrobat printer thingy or Preview’s built in machismo
g) Open PDFs in Acrobat Pro and tag them so that they will reflow, and make damn sure the links and whatnot work
h) …
i) PROFIT
h) Send finished product to authors/artists AND upload files to a forgiving file upload site
i) Create masterlist either here on IJ or in my Wordpress archive thingy
j) Keep pdf links updated as needed (i.e. reupload as needed, then change the links, etc etc).

eyes her master plan Yes, that’s a ton of work. But…I can’t find my pdf copy of Cartographer’s Craft. And I want to have A Deeper Season in pdf, as well as about fifty other long fics I should damn well have saved to my hard drive by now. And I’ll have space on my Kindle for them, right?