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We're working on a fanfic database that will perform two main functions: help you to pinpoint just the stories you're looking for, by searching on a variety of criteria; and also to drive the fanfic archive, to make updating the site a more streamlined, automated process. But it's taking longer than we had planned.

* UPDATED 2/15/08

Download the database: OpenOffice Calc version Excel version Text-delimited version If you don't want to download a file, try the Yahoo database version of the sheet. (Free Yahoo membership required)

Click to view full-size screen shot of OpenOffice Calc, a free Excel clone

We're sitting on a pile of data, though. Editor-in-Chief LabRat has been entering story records into an Excel spreadsheet, and we'd like to make a recent version of the sheet available to you as a download.

You could load the data into your own software for some offline searching. What kind of software? A spreadsheet like Microsoft Excel or OpenOffice Calc would work. So would a database like Microsoft Access or OpenOffice Base. Basically anything that will accept a delimited text file. But we're also offering OpenOffice and Excel versions.

If you're not interested in loading the data offline, we've put a version of the sheet online in a Yahoo database. Yahoo limits the size of database files, so we had to split it into two pieces. You'll need a Yahoo membership to view the files available here.

Offline searching

Don't have a spreadsheet or database program already? Consider giving OpenOffice Calc a try. It's part of an open-source, completely free office suite called OpenOffice 2.0, which is available for download at openoffice.org. OpenOffice is compatible with Microsoft Office and offers a counterpart for all the major components in the Microsoft Office suite of programs. You can read and write Microsoft Word files in OpenOffice Writer, read/write Excel files in OOo's Calc, and read/write Access files in OOo's Base.

OpenOffice is cross-platform, offering versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Unix. It's a rather large download, though, at 75Mb. So if you don't have broadband access, you could purchase an inexpensive CD. Or if you're near a Borders bookstore, look for a British magazine called PCPlus. Its cover disc usually includes a recent version of OpenOffice, along with other recent "essential software." (The January '06 issue with a DVD disc containing OpenOffice cost $15.99 U.S., for example.)

Story count discrepancy

Wondering why the story count on the data sheet doesn't match the count on the home page? One reason is that this version of the sheet is a bit behind the weekly updates. Another is that over the years some authors have withdrawn stories for various reasons, and we haven't changed the count to match. That'll happen when the archive is finally database-driven and the story count is calculated by the database.

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