diff --git a/fanficfare/adapters/adapter_test1.py b/fanficfare/adapters/adapter_test1.py
index 940dd114..202d05b1 100644
--- a/fanficfare/adapters/adapter_test1.py
+++ b/fanficfare/adapters/adapter_test1.py
@@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ Some more longer description.  "I suck at summaries!"  "Better than it sounds!"
                     #('Chapter n',self.url+"&chapter=o"),
                     ]
         for c in chapters:
-            self.add_chapter(c[0],c[1])
+            self.add_chapter(c[0],c[1],{'test':'asdf'})
 
 
     def getChapterText(self, url):
diff --git a/fanficfare/adapters/base_adapter.py b/fanficfare/adapters/base_adapter.py
index 21fbf487..913b4bc0 100644
--- a/fanficfare/adapters/base_adapter.py
+++ b/fanficfare/adapters/base_adapter.py
@@ -143,15 +143,16 @@ class BaseSiteAdapter(Configurable):
             self.chapterLast=int(last)-1
         self.story.set_chapters_range(first,last)
 
-    def add_chapter(self,title,url):
+    def add_chapter(self,title,url,othermeta={}):
         ## Check for chapter URL in ignore_chapter_url_list.
         ## Normalize chapter urls, both from list and passed in, but
         ## don't save them that way to match previous behavior.
         if self.ignore_chapter_url_list == None:
             self.ignore_chapter_url_list = [ self.normalize_chapterurl(u) for u in self.getConfig('ignore_chapter_url_list').splitlines() ]
         if self.normalize_chapterurl(url) not in self.ignore_chapter_url_list:
-            self.chapterUrls.append({'title':stripHTML(title),
-                                     'url':url})
+            meta = dict(othermeta) # copy
+            meta.update({'title':stripHTML(title),'url':url}) # after other to make sure they are set
+            self.chapterUrls.append(meta)
             self.story.setMetadata('numChapters', self.num_chapters())
             return True
         # return true/false for those adapters that count words by
@@ -185,11 +186,10 @@ class BaseSiteAdapter(Configurable):
                 url = chap['url']
                 #logger.debug("index:%s"%index)
                 newchap = False
+                passchap = dict(chap)
                 if (self.chapterFirst!=None and index < self.chapterFirst) or \
                         (self.chapterLast!=None and index > self.chapterLast):
-                    self.story.addChapter(url,
-                                          removeEntities(title),
-                                          None)
+                    passchap['html'] = None
                 else:
                     data = None
                     if self.oldchaptersmap:
@@ -237,10 +237,11 @@ class BaseSiteAdapter(Configurable):
                         else:
                             raise
 
-                    self.story.addChapter(url,
-                                          removeEntities(title),
-                                          removeEntities(data),
-                                          newchap)
+                    passchap['url'] = url
+                    passchap['title'] = title
+                    passchap['html'] = data
+
+                self.story.addChapter(passchap, newchap)
             self.storyDone = True
 
             # include image, but no cover from story, add default_cover_image cover.
diff --git a/fanficfare/story.py b/fanficfare/story.py
index 3b796bfc..77758398 100644
--- a/fanficfare/story.py
+++ b/fanficfare/story.py
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 
 import os, re
 import copy
+from collections import defaultdict
 import urlparse
 import string
 import json
@@ -30,7 +31,7 @@ import urlparse as up
 import bs4
 
 import exceptions
-from htmlcleanup import conditionalRemoveEntities, removeAllEntities
+from htmlcleanup import conditionalRemoveEntities, removeEntities, removeAllEntities
 from configurable import Configurable, re_compile
 from htmlheuristics import was_run_marker
 
@@ -1007,20 +1008,21 @@ class Story(Configurable):
 
         return list(subjectset | set(self.getConfigList("extratags")))
 
-    def addChapter(self, url, title, html, newchap=False):
-        # logger.debug("addChapter(%s,%s)"%(url,newchap))
+    def addChapter(self, chap, newchap=False):
+        # logger.debug("addChapter(%s,%s)"%(chap,newchap))
+        chapter = defaultdict(unicode,chap) # default unknown to empty string
+        chapter['title'] = removeEntities(chapter['title'])
+        chapter['html'] = removeEntities(chapter['html'])
         if self.getConfig('strip_chapter_numbers') and \
                 self.getConfig('chapter_title_strip_pattern'):
-            title = re.sub(self.getConfig('chapter_title_strip_pattern'),"",title)
-        self.chapters.append({'url':url,
-                              'title':title,
-                              'html':html,
-                              'origtitle':title,
-                              'toctitle':title,
-                              'new':newchap,
-                              'number':len(self.chapters)+1,
-                              'index':len(self.chapters)+1,
-                              '0index':"%04d"%(len(self.chapters)+1)})
+            chapter['title'] = re.sub(self.getConfig('chapter_title_strip_pattern'),"",chapter['title'])
+        chapter.update({'origtitle':chapter['title'],
+                        'toctitle':chapter['title'],
+                        'new':newchap,
+                        'number':len(self.chapters)+1,
+                        'index':len(self.chapters)+1,
+                        '0index':"%04d"%(len(self.chapters)+1)})
+        self.chapters.append(chapter)
 
     def getChapters(self,fortoc=False):
         "Chapters will be dicts"
@@ -1064,7 +1066,7 @@ class Story(Configurable):
                     usetempl = templ
                 # logger.debug("chap(%s)"%chap)
             # Chapter = namedtuple('Chapter', 'url title html origtitle toctitle new')
-                chapter = copy.copy(chap)
+                chapter = defaultdict(unicode,chap)
                 chapter['chapter'] = chapter['title'] = usetempl.substitute(chap)
                 chapter['origtitle'] = templ.substitute(chap)
                 chapter['toctitle'] = toctempl.substitute(chap)