Well, hello there!

[wickedwords]

I'm gonna try and do some of this posting thing. In my mad gaming frenzy, I completely forgot to post about my life on occasion. I guess that's because there's been nothing major happening in my life -- no major fandom, no major family things (YAY!!!), no serious issues now that the cat's feeling better. In general, I just feel so much better than I did when I was going through treatment that even though I'm still tired at times, I can see on a daily basis that I'm doing okay.

Work is also okay. I'm learning the job, which is similar to one I used to do, but slightly different--and that's making me feel good too, since I know I can do it. A little bit of a challenge, and it's not overwhelming.

I'm carpooling in and taking the bus home most days, so my husband bought me a kindle. I had to wrestle it out of my son's hands as we took the train down to my dad's place this weekend. I bought him a book, but he loved being able to read on it, and he didn't hardly play his video games at all. It was so weird! I ended up reading my books on the kindle iphone app, but it's impossible to read fanfic that way.

Speaking of -- what is your favorite kindle-ready fanfic story? I downloaded a couple of things from the efiction to go site, but if you have a favorite set up for a kindle, point me at it! I think I'm ready to read just about anything.

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[carolyn_claire]

It's good to hear that things are just good, too. :)

you got a kindle too!

[talking_sock]

Awesome, now you can help S with hers :-) I don't know of a kindle-fic site, but we sure need one. Or archives need a link to "the kindle version" for all their fic, or even better, a button to "email your kindle".

We can test the fic for S on yours and mine now. Also, glad to see you post :-)

[wickedwords]

I'd kinda forgotten about that. *g* Trying to be better, though!

Re: you got a kindle too!

[wickedwords]

There is the ebook library, http://amalthia.mediawood.net/ebooks/index.php

Unfortunately, I've read a lot of the SGA stuff and I have no clue about any of the other fandoms. Guess I'll just have to give it a try.

Re: you got a kindle too!

[(Anonymous)]

ah, awesome. that's what we should do with all of the stories formatted for sandy. i was stressing about how to dispose of them usefully.

Re: you got a kindle too!

[wickedwords]

Yeah, I was wondering if we needed to set up an archive page or something, but if we get author permission, I'm sure Amalthia will take them.

Also have you looked at Kindledfans over on LJ? http://community.livejournal.com/kindledfans/

They have tutorials on how to convert fiction to mobi format and put it on your kindle. So far, all I've used is the download from fanfic to go on my PC and copy it over via the direct connection, as well as email my kindle a text file and let it do the conversion for a small fee. I haven't yet downloaded the converter and tried formatting anything myself.

BTW, what is the email address for Sandy's kindle. Is stories.for.sandy at gmail authorized to send her things? Where does the fee get paid from? and all that stuff. I think if we could paypal the admin account some cash, that might take care of some of this.

DIY-ing

[dorothy1901]

what is your favorite kindle-ready fanfic story?

I just pick stories I like and kindle-ize them. I've been using Calibre to convert HTML to MOBI. It's a pretty straightforward process. Sometimes I use Netscape Composer to clean up the HTML document before converting it.

There's also the kindle_fanfic community, as a source of both fanfiction and information.

Re: you got a kindle too!

[talking_sock]

Yes, I asked B to set up the stories.for.sandy gmail account as a verified account, and I'm still waiting to find out what her Kindle address is! I will leave a note in the stories.for.sandy gmail account for all the admins when we know it. Today I saw that various folks have sent fic, so I sent them a thank you, and a note saying I'd test on mine tonight.

I want people to not worry about the fee for sending to her kindle. If we can collect a small amount and then pay Sandy back, that would rock. If we are doing it to our Kindles too, we can track the approximate amount of it.

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[talking_sock]

By the way, what would be MOST awesome is if we could set up an RSS feed that Kindles can subscribe to, for all the stories. Then others can get them too. I think this only works if you do a public one on Amazon, which probably won't fly with us for fanfic, sadly. But this is my dream for fanfic delivery. Maybe I'll post asking about it on the kindle fans comms.

[elynross]

Any chance you get to chat from work, on any app? I miss chatting with you, and knowing what's going on with you, a lot. {{{you}}}

[wickedwords]

I don't even have my real laptop yet. I'm using a borrowed desktop at a temporary desk. Really, I should figure out how to use my smartphone better for fannish stuff. That has a better chance of working out.

Re: you got a kindle too!

[wickedwords]

Oh, that would be fabulous. I might download some of the formatted fiction from the main account in the meantime. See how it works on my machine. *g*

Re: DIY-ing

[wickedwords]

I'm going to try it this weekend, I think. I haven't read anythng for months, and I still have a backlog of big bang stuff. Anything that you'd care to suggest?

Re: you got a kindle too!

[talking_sock]

Yes, I highly recommend you borrow some of that fic, too. I told her we would be. You can also register your own kindle for working with that account - set up the address in Manage Your Kindle on Amazon. I did mine already, to fully test the sending stuff.

Only things we have to watch are that each story is under 50MB before sending.

[marthawells]

FYI, I keep scrolling down here just to look at your icon. :)

[wickedwords]

I love Mensaverse John, and the sorta surprise element of him in glasses makes me very happy. You have good taste in icons. ;)

[marthawells]

Yes, he's got that very sexy touch of vulnerability, and the glasses just add to that.

You have good taste in icons. ;)

So do you! :)

Re: DIY-ing

[dorothy1901]

Anything that you'd care to suggest?

That's a tough one. Most recently, I've added atrata's Almost No One Makes It Out and valtyr's Some Assembly Required, and I'd recommend both of them if you're interested in the fandoms, which are Iron Man Movie!Verse and Marvel Adventures Comic!Verse, respectively.

There's a recent Leverage/White Collar crossover story, I Lie, I Cheat, I Steal (and I Just Don't Get Any Respect), by fiercelydreamed, which has (deservedly) been recced a lot. Consider this one more rec. *g*

Re: you got a kindle too!

[wickedwords]

Excellent thought! Let me go do that now.

Re: DIY-ing

[wickedwords]

I've read some Iron Man stuff, mostly movieverse with a little Iron Man/Captain America thrown it, so I'll try my hand at formatting those this weekend. And I love firecelydreamed, so I will most certainly try that one as well. Thanks!

Re: DIY-ing

[dorothy1901]

I've put together a bunch of annotated screencaps to illustrate the process of copying a story from Dreamwidth to the Kindle, using Netscape Composer and Calibre. It's at dorothy1901.dreamwidth.org/64548.html. For now, I've got it filtered so only you can access it.

I'd appreciate it if you let me know of any problems with it: can't access it, it doesn't make sense, etc. Eventually, I might clean it up and share it more widely.

Re: DIY-ing

[wickedwords]

Hee! You use one of my stories as the examples. That is so awesome. Okay, let me give this a try and see what happens.

[mercury973.livejournal.com]

So glad to hear things are going your way! It's about time. Everyone has had enough with crud and needs some sunshine.

Hey- are you coming to our meeting Saturday? Panera and SG1/SGA episodes..... you know you want to! =) If you can swing it, please come. If not, we understand.

[wickedwords.livejournal.com]

I plan on coming! It sounded like fun.

[mercury973.livejournal.com]

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[slashaddict13.livejournal.com]

Do you have a Kindle 1 or a Kindle 2? If you have a Kindle 2, it will read HTML files if you put them in the Documents folder and type file:///mnt/us/documents/filename.html into the browser.

I actually save the fanfic I like as HTML files and read them on my Pocket PC phone and my Archos 605 media player. If you have a Kindle 1, you can save the fanfic as a TXT file and read it.

[wickedwords.livejournal.com]

Kindle 2, and it's a very new thing for me. Thanks for the hints!

[springwoof.livejournal.com]

I don't have a Kindle :( but I have a favorite e-book reader for the iphone that is extremely easy to use to read fanfic: Bookshelf (http://www.iphonebookshelf.com/) I just save whatever fanfic I'm reading as an html file, and then I can upload it to the iphone with the Bookshelf server softwear (free download when you buy the app, which is very reasonably priced). Of course, you can also read books on it. :-) I've used the Stanza e-reader as well, paired with Caliber (which works okay, but the Bookshelf app/Bookshelf server works a lot better and is easier).

[wickedwords.livejournal.com]

Oh, that looks cool! I'll give it a shot later. Thanks.