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ficbooks, and I thought maybe we could get the ball rolling by having some chatter in the comments. So, I have a little introductory questionnaire for those of you who would like to fill it out or just talk amongst yourselves.
If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to bring 'em up here or PM me.
ficbooks, and I thought maybe we could get the ball rolling by having some chatter in the comments. So, I have a little introductory questionnaire for those of you who would like to fill it out or just talk amongst yourselves.If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to bring 'em up here or PM me.
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2. When and where do you do most of your fic ebook reading? At night, curled up on my couch. I am so delightfully unfortunate to be one of those people who can't read in a moving vehicle without getting sick. :\
3. Do you prefer ebook paragraphs separated by a blank line or indented? Indented, and I will absolutely spend three hours reformatting an ebook just to have it that way.
4. What is the most recent fic ebook you either downloaded or read? I'm currently reading Baby-sitters Club The Next Generation #6: Byron and the God of California by zelempa, which is a roughly 30,000 word Baby-Sitters Club story from Yuletide. It has some embedded images in the story that didn't show up in the epub file, but I was able to add them manually using Sigil.
5. In which fandom(s) do you primarily read fic? Do you ever read fic ebooks outside your primary fic-reading fandom(s)? I do most of my online fic reading in Pundit RPF fandom, but all my fic ebook reading falls outside that. I'll read fic ebooks for pretty much any source I'm vaguely familiar with, but I'd be especially interested in longish X-Files or Star Trek XI fic ebooks.
6. Have you made any fic ebooks, or are there any ebooks of fic you've written? If you don't make ebooks or write fic, where is your favorite place to download fic ebooks? I'm very, very slowly piecing together a couple of Pundit RPF ebooks for personal use (they're stories whose authors have disappeared from the fandom). Anything I have posted to AO3 is, of course, available as an ebook, but that's it for now. When I finish my current longish story, I'm going to make (what I hope people will consider) a nicely-formatted ebook version of that.
7. What are you hoping to get from this community (e.g. more fic ebooks to read, a place to post your fic ebooks, the skills to make ebooks...)? More fic to download and read, of course! I'm hoping that activity in this community will make other people think, hey, there is interest in ebook-formatted fic, so maybe I'll start offering some of my stories in that format.
8. Anything else you'd like to add? Um. Yes, actually! I'm sure there are fic authors out there who would love ebooks of their stories, but who don't have the time or resources to learn how to make ebooks. Would there be any interest in a post for these authors to comment on and say, "Hey, if you wanted to make my fic X, Y, or Z into an ebook and post it to
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2. When and where do you do most of your fic ebook reading? Pretty much anytime, anywhere. I read in waiting rooms, in the tub, in bed, on my love seat, in my hammock, and in the massage chair at my chiropractor's.
3. Do you prefer ebook paragraphs separated by a blank line or indented? Indented! I will dump a book if I can't remove the blank lines.
4. What is the most recent fic ebook you either downloaded or read? No idea what I've read most recently but I just finally got a good copy of Dragonlord by Icarus to download after months of trying to get the copy I downloaded originally to work on my ereader.
5. In which fandom(s) do you primarily read fic? Do you ever read fic ebooks outside your primary fic-reading fandom(s)? Currently, I have the following fandoms on my ereader:
HP
Liaden Universe
Merlin
Narnia
NCIS
SGA
SG1
Vorkosigan
White Collar
However, eventually, I'll do a fic-gathering session for ST:Voyager, Highlander, Due South and The Sentinel as well. So much fic. So little time.
6. Have you made any fic ebooks, or are there any ebooks of fic you've written? If you don't make ebooks or write fic, where is your favorite place to download fic ebooks? I regularly make ebooks of fics that I want to read. There are a ton of tools out there these days which makes it a fairly painless process. I always check to see if the fic is on AO3 first though.
7. What are you hoping to get from this community (e.g. more fic ebooks to read, a place to post your fic ebooks, the skills to make ebooks...)? I'd love to discuss the ins and outs of making ebooks. I use Calibre along with other tools and I know that there is more that I could be doing that I don't have the knowledge for yet.
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2. When and where do you do most of your fic ebook reading? - train and on holiday
3. Do you prefer ebook paragraphs separated by a blank line or indented? - Not sure I have a strong preference - probably blank line.
4. What is the most recent fic ebook you either downloaded or read? I'm about halfway through Shadow's Falling by
5. In which fandom(s) do you primarily read fic? Do you ever read fic ebooks outside your primary fic-reading fandom(s)?
I primarily read Primeval fic, but I also seem to have downloaded a lot of stuff from Sherlock and Lord Peter Wimsey fandoms.
6. Have you made any fic ebooks, or are there any ebooks of fic you've written? If you don't make ebooks or write fic, where is your favorite place to download fic ebooks?
I use my ebook reader almost exclusively to read longer fics that I don't have time/don't want to read on my computer screen, so I'm constantly downloading and converting stuff to epub. I've converted a couple of my own fics as well for one reason or another.
7. What are you hoping to get from this community (e.g. more fic ebooks to read, a place to post your fic ebooks, the skills to make ebooks...)?
Hmm... I've only had an ebook reader about 4 months so I'm guessing there is lots of stuff about readers and ebooks that I don't know, and don't even know that I don't know. So I'm hoping to get a better feel for the technology. I guess I'm also hoping for good recs for longer free original fiction that I might want to read.
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2. When and where do you do most of your fic ebook reading? Commuting and at work
3. Do you prefer ebook paragraphs separated by a blank line or indented? Blank line
4. What is the most recent fic ebook you either downloaded or read? Whatever the most recent Inception fic added to Amalthia's ebook library is.
5. In which fandom(s) do you primarily read fic? Do you ever read fic ebooks outside your primary fic-reading fandom(s)? At the moment, I primarily read White Collar, Inception and Xiaolin Showdown, but I've been having a lot of fun with recs from
6. Have you made any fic ebooks, or are there any ebooks of fic you've written? If you don't make ebooks or write fic, where is your favorite place to download fic ebooks? I've made ebooks of my original writing, but the only ebooks of my fanfic come from the AO3.
7. What are you hoping to get from this community (e.g. more fic ebooks to read, a place to post your fic ebooks, the skills to make ebooks...)? Mostly reading material.
8. Anything else you'd like to add? Nah, I'm good.
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I currently read with iPad gen 1 with ibooks (epub) as well as Safari (html). I used to read using a Windows Mobile platfrom PDA (.lit format).
2. When and where do you do most of your fic ebook reading?
In bed, the couch, or on the can; early mornings or at night, after work. :)
3. Do you prefer ebook paragraphs separated by a blank line or indented?
Depends on the formatting options, but both?
4. What is the most recent fic ebook you either downloaded or read?
5. In which fandom(s) do you primarily read fic? Do you ever read fic ebooks outside your primary fic-reading fandom(s)?
I read a lot of femslash-related fandoms, like Xena, Glee, Legend of the Seeker, Devil Wears Prada, Star Trek: Voyager, Harry Potter...
As for fic ebooks outside my primary fic-reading fandoms, usually if someone recommends it to me. I wouldn't necessarily venture into reading it as an ebook.
6. Have you made any fic ebooks, or are there any ebooks of fic you've written? If you don't make ebooks or write fic, where is your favorite place to download fic ebooks?
I have made several fic ebooks, both in lit and epub formats but they're mostly for personal consumption, as there's a possibility that these fics may be eligible for future publication.
Favorite places to download ebooks:
PDA fiction (femslash specific, maintained by dany) (ereader, plain doc, isilo, mobi, msreader)
Passion and Perfection: E-books by (femslash specific, maintained by
Sans Paper (femslash specific, maintained by Alex(?)) (epub, mobi, pdb)
Archive Of Our Own (multi-genre archive project supported on donations by members of OTW) (epub, mobi, pdf, html)
7. What are you hoping to get from this community (e.g. more fic ebooks to read, a place to post your fic ebooks, the skills to make ebooks...)?
Recommended ebooks, perhaps, as entries into possible new fandoms genres?
8. Anything else you'd like to add?
Hopefully this will be a fruitful community be in! :)
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I have a Nook (not the color one), and I usually read PDFs and EPUBs on it. It can do .doc files but not well, and it won't do .txt ones to my immense annoyance.
2. When and where do you do most of your fic ebook reading?
Mostly during long trips where I'm on a plane or while my husband is driving. Also my husband likes to take the Nook to the field with him because it takes up less space than a bunch of paperbacks.
3. Do you prefer ebook paragraphs separated by a blank line or indented?
I'm fine either way.
4. What is the most recent fic ebook you either downloaded or read?
Xanthe's epic BDSM 'verse that crosses over NCIS and Stargate Atlantis.
5. In which fandom(s) do you primarily read fic? Do you ever read fic ebooks outside your primary fic-reading fandom(s)?
My first and forever fandom is the Next-Gen-and-onward Star Trek. I read those, and more recently NCIS, Vorkosigan Saga, and Stargate, mostly SG-1 slash. :P
6. Have you made any fic ebooks, or are there any ebooks of fic you've written? If you don't make ebooks or write fic, where is your favorite place to download fic ebooks?
Nah. I haven't written much lately, and no-one wants to read my crappy Jonny Quest TRA fic from ninth grade. :P
7. What are you hoping to get from this community (e.g. more fic ebooks to read, a place to post your fic ebooks, the skills to make ebooks...)?
More ebooks to read, and the skills to make ebooks should I ever get around to finishing my original novels. :)
8. Anything else you'd like to add?
Um...not really. I think this comm is a great idea!
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