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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.

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[amalthia]

I think Sony is coming out with a new e-ink reader sometime this month or next month. I've been reading rumors of two new releases. I hear one of them will have wireless.

Now as for finding sites with a lot of ebooks....I myself have not found any but I have great hopes that the A03 will add an export to epub/mobi option to their site someday. I know the efiction archive people are talking about coding it into the new/upcoming release of efiction. I think if things like this can happen it'll help make fan fiction formatted for ebook devices much more accessible.

In the meantime, the way I'm creating ebooks is a slower and I still need permission to share the works on the archive. So my personal collection is much larger than what you see on the archive.

I also went with RTF because when I first got my Sony the Kindle had not come out yet and I had thought they would support RTF or word doc at least. But they didn't. So it's really hard to provide formats that work on all devices.

[strina]

I am SO GLAD you run that archive, by the way. It is AMAZING, and I actually use some of the RTF files just to read on my desktop because I generally like my fic low-formatted and in one big file. But yes, just about everything I've managed to put on the Kindle has been mobi files from your archive (sorting by available formats = so awesome), so THANK YOU!

[amalthia]

I'm slowly but surely trying to add more formats for the stories currently hosted. :) If you have any requests just drop me a note. :)

Waves and you're welcome.