So far so good. I have a lot of eye issues and I'm finding it easy to read. The 'paper' is not bright white, it's more gray, which I like. There are also a lot of text sizes to choose from.
It is possible! I never even thought to try it until you asked.
You may recognize that fic! All I have to do is press the next page button and it scrolls down to the next bit. I am very excited about this. I thought I'd have to send text versions of fics to my kindle but this way I can just go to my delicious archive and read them online.
Sorry about the depth of field on the photo, just grabbed the camera and shot without changing any settings.
Oh, COOL! Cool choice of story for the picture, too, of course. *grin*
Thank you, you've just sold another Kindle. Reading fan fiction was one thing I wanted a Kindle for, but I wasn't enthused about downloading everything and loading it up to the Kindle. And it's not exactly something you can ask a non-fan-fiction reading Kindle owner about.
So Delicious displays okay on the web browser too?
Delicious does display. It's not as nice as on a computer and if the fics have a lot of tags it's a bit of slow going but you can filter by tag and that helps. You can also search tags. I think what I might do is create a new 'travel' delicious for myself with just fics (my regular one has over 1000 bookmarks and most are not fics) and for tags I may just use the star system (*, **, ***, ****) or something like that.
I may be able to help with this, actually. I've been playing with Delicious's RSS feed and XSLT to make my website, and it would be really easy to make you a "portable" view for your tags using XSLT: filtering for fic only, reducing the amount of extraneous stuff on the page, even showing only selected tag information. (And once I get a Kindle I'll need this myself, so I might as well play with it now.)
Actually, try your RSS feed as is: http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/quinn222?count=100&tag=fic (Er, that is you, right? If not, replace the "quinn222" with your account name.) You're limited to 100 bookmarks that way, but you can add tags as needed to narrow it down by changing "tag=fic" to "tag=fic+whatever". It would be a good way to maintain a "to_read" list, just bookmark on your computer and read on your Kindle.
That's very cool. That is me but since I have so many work bookmarks on there all the fic is hidden. I made another one with just the fic and it's all unhidden and it came right up. On the Kindle it lists each title with the notes below. Perfect.
Now I just need to make a few extra tags and I'm set. As you suggest a to read tag would probably be very helpful.
You're limited to 100 bookmarks that way, but you can add tags as needed to narrow it down by changing "tag=fic" to "tag=fic+whatever"
I'm still thinking on this.
Since I set up a delicious that made up entirely of fics if I add a tag to each page of 100 designating its number sequence I can go from page to page. ie: first 100 are all tagged 100, second 200 and so on.
I'd have to start with the oldest fics or as I add new ones it will not make sense.
I'm trying to filter as little as possible because I rarely go hunting for a specific fic, I tend to browse my list and choose whatever strikes me. I don't add anything I haven't read and know I like already so a read/not read system wouldn't work.
Good point! I'll have to try that. So far I've not been using the web browser as much as I thought I would. Part of the problem is that I don't know how to type with my thumbs--I must be the last person in the word who's never used text messaging. So it takes a lot of trial and error to get to a site.
On the other hand, I got a copy of MobiCreator, which allows you to create ebooks that are natively readable on the Kindle. I've created an ebook for all the TARDIS big bang stories, complete with table of contents and the like. I want to tweak a few things yet, but when I'm done I'll see if the big bang site wants to host it or give me permission to host it. (The user manual for MobiCreator is for crap, and the interface is worse, but it's not too hard to figure out.)
I've been using mobi crestorr a lot. The manual confused the heck out of me but once I used it it was simple. Only thing is use Open Office and even though I can save as .doc mobi doesn't like it. So I've been saving as .pdf or txt and that's fine. I want to try an html doc but haven't done it yet.
As far as Tardis Big Bang consider me first in line please!
Drop me an email at "adina at intranet dot org" and I'll send it your way right now. Alpha test version--there's at least one messed up bit in the table of contents, there may be other things, if you see something, tell me.
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How are you getting along with it so far?
Oh, and the Kindle Fanfic comm is: http://community.livejournal.com/kindle_fanfic/
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You may recognize that fic! All I have to do is press the next page button and it scrolls down to the next bit. I am very excited about this. I thought I'd have to send text versions of fics to my kindle but this way I can just go to my delicious archive and read them online.
Sorry about the depth of field on the photo, just grabbed the camera and shot without changing any settings.
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Thank you, you've just sold another Kindle. Reading fan fiction was one thing I wanted a Kindle for, but I wasn't enthused about downloading everything and loading it up to the Kindle. And it's not exactly something you can ask a non-fan-fiction reading Kindle owner about.
So Delicious displays okay on the web browser too?
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Actually, try your RSS feed as is: http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/quinn222?count=100&tag=fic
(Er, that is you, right? If not, replace the "quinn222" with your account name.) You're limited to 100 bookmarks that way, but you can add tags as needed to narrow it down by changing "tag=fic" to "tag=fic+whatever". It would be a good way to maintain a "to_read" list, just bookmark on your computer and read on your Kindle.
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Now I just need to make a few extra tags and I'm set. As you suggest a to read tag would probably be very helpful.
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I'm still thinking on this.
Since I set up a delicious that made up entirely of fics if I add a tag to each page of 100 designating its number sequence I can go from page to page. ie: first 100 are all tagged 100, second 200 and so on.
I'd have to start with the oldest fics or as I add new ones it will not make sense.
I'm trying to filter as little as possible because I rarely go hunting for a specific fic, I tend to browse my list and choose whatever strikes me. I don't add anything I haven't read and know I like already so a read/not read system wouldn't work.
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On the other hand, I got a copy of MobiCreator, which allows you to create ebooks that are natively readable on the Kindle. I've created an ebook for all the TARDIS big bang stories, complete with table of contents and the like. I want to tweak a few things yet, but when I'm done I'll see if the big bang site wants to host it or give me permission to host it. (The user manual for MobiCreator is for crap, and the interface is worse, but it's not too hard to figure out.)
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As far as Tardis Big Bang consider me first in line please!
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The other thing I'm working on, of course, is creating ebook versions of my own fiction.
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