In the "it'd be so cool if..." category: a way to download/format stories for use with eReaders (ePub, Mobi, etc.). No idea how this would work technically (integrate with Calibre, maybe??), or if it's even feasible, but that'd be a dream feature.
As a non-committee person with limited coding experience but much ebook love--it should be possible. 2epub.com is an online epub converter based on Calibre (used to be lib2go, an LRF/ePub converter); it works okay on saved-out "print-ready" HTML files from some fannish archives.
Shouldn't be too hard, as coding things go, to come up with something similar (better, even, that acknowledges chapters & puts them in as page breaks), but it would require (1) dedicated coding effort and (2) convincing authors that it's okay for people to download stories as well as reading them at AO3. (The fact that they can download them now is irrelevant; some authors will get twitchy at the idea of easy exportable & sharable files.)
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