Do you save Fanfiction to your hard drive?

[antimatterenergy]

So do you save fan-fiction to your computer?
I save the fics I consider to be really good because you never know when they'll disappear and they don't take up an overly large amount of space. I have also printed out some of short ones to show to others.

[DCG]

I made a Return paper back over here.

[AscendedWarrior]

I find myself saving my favorite fanfiction stories to my harddrive whenever possilbe... I have too many bad experiences with stories I like going offline

[Vasey]

Hell, yes. Shit disappears off the Internet all the time and rooting through the wayback machines gets real old, real fast.

[J. St.C. Patrick]

Yes, I save fics I want to read again. And have printed out a number as well.

[Frog]

I used to save and print out fics, but I don't do it anymore. I came to think of it as a waste of ink when I started getting bombarded with college assignments and all my money seemed to become devoted to paying for new ink cartridges. Also, a waste of HDD space back when I had a puny little hard drive and a hundred things that I wanted to keep in it.
Still, I kinda cherish the chapters I printed out of Children of an Elder God. It's nice to be able to re-read them at any time.
I wont start printing out fics any time soon, but I might start saving them again now that I have a much larger HDD to have fun with.
My vote? 'No - I only read online'... for now.

[TerraEpon]

When I first started reading, I used to archive all the fics (I read SM only...this was like ten years ago when Moonromance was "Luna and Artemis's Fanfic Archive"), but gave up on that. Only stuff I have on my drive is what I want to read....if I ever get the inclanation.
-Joshua

[Rei-chan]

I always just read it online. I know I probably should save a copy, but since I use about 3-4 computers in a day it wouldn't really help me much anyway.

[Neko-]

Read it offline. Mostly since when I stumble across the online variant I have other things to do. So I'll just save it and read it later on.
As to actually saving fanfic, yes I do. But only the series
a) I'd like to see more of
b) I enjoyed
c) I will likely re-read
Since I'm pretty global there, it shouldn't be a big surprise that the fanfic folder is currently 269.5 MB...
Granted, I should probably remove 38 megs from that count for being fanart and MP3's...
edit: Since migele stated that unread stuff should be excluded as such... I should subtract 36 megs of files... I'm not gonna chack on the chapters I haven't read yet...

[Cyber_Skaarj]

Yes, but only to read offline. I save as many as I can that I'd liked reading to my HDD so that during those times when my net connection fails (which is disturbingly often, something I will need to correct when I get both the time and money to switch ISPs), I will be able to go and read some fanfics. My addiction's so bad that if I can't access at least one fic to read for a little bit each day, I start to get worried...

[mondu_the_fat]

I save what I like to read. I got into the habit because remaining online for long periods is expensive. So I save everything then read it later. Also, sometimes links or the fics themselves change/disappear.

[migele]

mostly I'm an offline reader. but the important ones are stored for eternity.
currently I'm approaching the 500 mb mark (however 50mb of that is unfiltered and unread fiction, that's a lot of unread chapters and I still have about 350 c2 alerts waiting to be openend.

[Hiryo]

Yip I DEFINITLY SAVE AND REREAD the many fanfics out there.
I'm a diehard RanManica-Otaku-Fanfic-Fan and currently have
~1,8 GB of Ranma and Ranma-xover fanfics in txt-, html-, and even some
doc-format. Each story is put into a folder and are sorted by the first letter in a folder.
That means I saved those fanfics from ff.net mm.org, cork, cork2, www.fanfic.net,... in txt
format since otherwise I would have to few space . . . to save those, the fanarts or
alternate versions of the stories too. Then there are the AA-threads those too I have on
my hd. Although my Link-list on my site would cover the most that I have currently
home on my hd
http://www.geocities.com/hiryoshotenha/main-Links.html
Nevertheless I'm sure that PCHeintz72 and some others have more fanfics than I stored
on their hd.
I always played with the thought to pack the whole thing with rar and upload it to a P2P
program like emule . . . . If enough ask nicely I may do so . . . .

[Neko-]

*would comment on the staggering amount of time it would take to actually read through 1.8 GB of TXT files*
Heck... I find the 200 meg I have extensive enough already to not re-read. With 1.8 gigs you'd be lagging behind on all stories as new chapters were released (provided they're not dead stories).

[Hiryo]

would comment on the staggering amount of time it would take to actually read through 1.8 GB of TXT files*

Rougly over three quater of a year. Once I reread the whole thing and needed half a year
and that was 3 years back.

Heck... I find the 200 meg I have extensive enough already to not re-read. With 1.8 gigs you'd be lagging behind on all stories as new chapters were released (provided they're not dead stories).

Nope not as much as you think. I currently have a backlag only because of my network-
course I currently undertake. And that is a ~15MB rarfile (foremost: ff.net, mediaminer,
AA). Since I always read from my laptop where I copy the fics I have to read to. There I
search when an update is if the fic is already there if yes then I move the fics from the ol'
folder to the newer one.
I read those fics and put those I like then to my C2 Community:
http://www.fanfiction.net/c2/6541/0/0/1/