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New Kindle is named Metis, because when I find a naming schema I like, I will run it into the goddamn ground.
24 items into a Derek/Stiles list, because I am just so full of feelings and using other people's rec lists keeps biting me in the ass. There are about ten stories that I hate? But if I see a link I follow it, because I cannot remember I've read them, let alone that I hate them. It is a fandom with a lot of tropes, ok, and sometimes a new story feels familiar because tropes and sometimes a story feels familiar because it is the one you wanted to throw across the room.
But yes, new list, finally. I feel bad that I haven't posted one since fucking March? But getting a Kindle radically changed the way I interact with fandom at large and I was trying to keep reccing without adjusting that at all and it got horrible and frustrating and I just needed to not.
24 items into a Derek/Stiles list, because I am just so full of feelings and using other people's rec lists keeps biting me in the ass. There are about ten stories that I hate? But if I see a link I follow it, because I cannot remember I've read them, let alone that I hate them. It is a fandom with a lot of tropes, ok, and sometimes a new story feels familiar because tropes and sometimes a story feels familiar because it is the one you wanted to throw across the room.
But yes, new list, finally. I feel bad that I haven't posted one since fucking March? But getting a Kindle radically changed the way I interact with fandom at large and I was trying to keep reccing without adjusting that at all and it got horrible and frustrating and I just needed to not.
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Thing two: I'm on my kindle right now! c: Named Montarey because I, too, have a running theme (my first kindle was named Pepperjack). In re to fic, I bookmark it to my pinboard using my laptop (easier to look through tags) and then download them on the kindle. Reading on it is just so much easier and more enjoyable since I'm not stuck in one position all the time (kindle has ruined me for reading on a computer monitor).
It's interesting that you say that it's influenced the way you interact with fandom. I kind of feel the same way? I prefer using the laptop for tumblr and blogging, but I'm on the kindle so often, and I have it on me pretty much constantly, that I've found myself having to adapt. :/a
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Also the fic is crazy full of things I love and I just want to roll around in it but then I keep hitting the end, it's like trying to snuggle under a throw-sized blanket - amazingamazingamazingwaitWHY ARE MY FEET AND SHOULDERS SO COLD.
Thing two: I am sadly on Kindle number four (Athene -> Pallas -> Seshet -> Metis). I've actually developed a very scattered approach to fic? Short fic (<5000 words) and recalcitrant websites (anything not AO3, TtH, or ff.net, basically) gets read on the desktop and bookmarked either in browser or through AO3 bookmarks (they are terrible and unsortable, but super convenient to make?), and long/downloadable fic all goes straight to Kindle.
But once I've read it on device, it's very hard to work back to the actual fic page to get a link/leave kudos. I read so much more than I'm on the computer now that by the time I'm at my actual keyboard, I could have dozens of fics I wanted to rec but fuck if I'll think of them. It's pretty much read on the Kindle -> use the computer to dl more fic for the Kindle/maybe read some fic and some blogs -> read on the Kindle -> repeat ad infinitum.
I only recently had the epiphany that I could precode most links with a href="http://archiveofourown.org/works/ " (or "http://www.fanfiction.net/s/ /1/") and just type the story number straight off the Kindle's screen. Much faster and easier than my previous "go to search, type in author or title, get link".
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Oh maaaan, I remember during s1 it was so hard to find long fic, any fic at all really, and now it's like I have to beat them away with a stick. I have more bookmarked as private than ever.
Kindle #4? Agh. Is it a hardware problem or just (like me) bad luck with electronics?
But once I've read it on device, it's very hard to work back to the actual fic page to get a link/leave kudos.
I have that problem too! I don't have internet at my apt (my neighbor moved and took his unprotected wifi with him :c), so sometimes it feels like bookmarking everything is only a way to keep track of it so I don't forget it. But of course by the time I get to mooch internet off of my friends it's like I have to reread ALL THE THINGS to remember which was which and why I liked it.
I actually downloaded some e-readers for my computer to see if I'll have better luck keeping track of stuff. It's at times like this I wish I could code so I could write an app to fix this problem.
Omg my kindle is shit with organizing and indexing. I literally have to go through the files and rename them one by one after they've already been downloaded. So annoying.