Did others know that it's possible to read chapters offline?

[expentio]

I don't just mean going with a mobile device in the park without your active chapter shutting down, that much is obvious.
I mean that the temporary data can often be enough to reupload the chapter even while being offline.
I experimented a little. It doesn't always work, or sometimes the formating is messed up to the foundation programming (which still enables reading the raw text). But in most of the cases you can just go to the last chapter you would read, then click "previous chapter" till you're at your current and then in offline mode click the "go back one page button" of your browser. This will reload the previous page just as it was. If it's messed up or not working reloading/going back and forth with the browser options can often repair it too.
Not completely sure, but it might also work via your browser history.

I just thought this interesting to mention. On RoyalRoad, for example, doing this doesn't work with my tablet.

 

[TASTYLEADPAINT]

Personally I.just use the download Web pages feature on Google chrome. It's tedious at times but it works a treat

 

[Piisfun]

I don't just mean going with a mobile device in the park without your active chapter shutting down, that much is obvious.
I mean that the temporary data can often be enough to reupload the chapter even while being offline.
I experimented a little. It doesn't always work, or sometimes the formating is messed up to the foundation programming (which still enables reading the raw text). But in most of the cases you can just go to the last chapter you would read, then click "previous chapter" till you're at your current and then in offline mode click the "go back one page button" of your browser. This will reload the previous page just as it was. If it's messed up or not working reloading/going back and forth with the browser options can often repair it too.
Not completely sure, but it might also work via your browser history.

I just thought this interesting to mention. On RoyalRoad, for example, doing this doesn't work with my tablet.

I've used this quite a few times, actually.
The best method is to pull up about ten chapters in separate tabs, and make sure to actually switch to each tab.
That loads them all.

There are two things that kill this: time and page complexity.
Time is a limiting factor because the cache (temporary storage) expires eventually. How long that takes is set by the website, but cannot exceed 48 hours.
Page complexity is an issue because the cache has a limited size, and more complex pages need a larger chunk of it. Images and videos are especially heavy.

Given how simple the layout of Scribble Hub is, it is almost a perfect candidate for this.
And since the content should be relatively static once it goes live, the cache timeout is relatively generous, too.

 

[TheEldritchGod]

Oh. I assume this is something you can do if you use a computer to access the internet, right?

 

[RepresentingCaution]

There's this ancient device that lets people read without electricity, too!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing_press

 

[NotaNuffian]

I just print PDF.

 

[Piisfun]

Oh. I assume this is something you can do if you use a computer to access the internet, right?

I usually do this with a six or seven year old tablet, so...

 

[sanitylimited]

this is nothing new or exciting. most, if not all websites do this to reduce the server load. some websites might break on purpose because of ad revinue.

basicaly instead of instantly deleting the information the moment you leave a website, it doesnt.

hell even deleting things from your computer doesnt actualy delete it. it just marks the spot in storage as available to be writen over. its why recovering deleted files is posible

 

[ACertainPassingUser]

I usually download story that was about to be stub-bed into .ePub format. epub file format is more convenient to read than PDF, as the paragraph and font size can be adjusted depends on the device I'm using.

That way, I can read .epub of webnovel offline along with my pirated light novels collection.

 

[TheEldritchGod]

I usually do this with a six or seven year old tablet, so...

I prefer a 3,000 year old clay tablet.

 

[Woolen_Monkey]

I personally prefer using the monkey telephone method. The Monkey Telephone Method is an innovative method of reading.
You get a long line of monkeys and the one with the phone reads a sentence and then tells the other person beside them who then tells the person beside them onwards and onwards until it gets to you.