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[strina]

So I'm currently borrowing my aunt's Kindle and I think I need an ebook reader of my very own. Car repairs mean I won't have the money for at least a month, but does anyone have any recs? Anti-recs?* Links to awesome sites with lots of fanfic ebooks?**

*I will not be getting a Kindle, because a) I hate Amazon and b) I pretty much hate the Kindle; why can't I skip to the last chapter? Why does it not tell me anywhere I can find how to follow the stupid quick links? Why does the user manual give me sort options that do not appear on the screen at any point?

**I know you can use fanfic downloaders and convertor programs and make ebooks, but I am laaazy. Everything I've put on the Kindle comes from this Ebook Library or Ralst's page here.

Comments

[poisontaster]

I have a Nook and I really like it, especially since they added a function to go to whatever page you want. The problem with Kindle or Nook is that they don't support a large number of formats. With Nook, epub is the "best" format to use on it and it's open source enough that if you don't like the Nook, you can take your library and put it on, for example, an iPad.

No matter what kind of reader you buy it's probably that pdfs will look like crap on it; the format is really inflexible and ends up having formatting problems no matter what you do and, unfortunately, a lot of fans who are give an ebook version of their longer stories are doing it in pdf format. I second the rec for amalthia's site; she converts to multiple formats for most readers.

They're not as 'sexy', but the people I know that have Sony readers swear by them and they seem like they have the greatest format flexibility, though don't quote me on that.

Also, no matter what kind you buy, you're not 100% locked into purchasing from a single site. A lot of the epublishers put out their books in multi format and esellers like Smashwords and Fictionwise offer books in multi format...sometimes in formats the original publisher don't even offer.