[identity profile] court1429.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] getithere
Happened to go to the Twisting the Hellmouth archive (predominantly a Buffy archive, with some other fandoms represented) to get an author name so I could tag a fic, and noticed that this archive, like AO3, offers downloading options in mobi (for Kindle), epub (for Nook and Sony), and txt. I think it's pretty awesome that archives are doing this.

I'd love to see the same options for our QAF-specific archives. Does anyone know what adding that capability to the archives would entail? It would be up to the owners of the archives, of course, but I just got to wondering if it would be a huge, difficult thing to offer?

Now that I'm thinking about it, I wouldn't mind seeing epub and mobi links offered within our share sites, either.

We're also trying out a new tag: "e-readers: e-reader dl available". We hope this will become a much-used tag over time as more authors upload to some of these sites. I'd like to request that if you know there's an e-reader version available on an archive, even if you don't link to it, would you mention it in a comment, please?

Of course it's always possible to convert a fic to your reader format using calibre or other conversion software. These archive options just save a few steps in the process.

Any insight you guys have is appreciated!

Date: 2011-02-22 07:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladycallie.livejournal.com
I have nothing to add other than I love when sites offer downloadable versions. My kindle has more fic on it than actual novels.

Date: 2011-02-22 12:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] netlagd.livejournal.com
I thought most could read PDF format

Lulu.com offers the ability to format for print on demand, CD/DVD, and e-pub. I know you upload a PDF, I don't know if you can export and try it.

Date: 2011-02-22 07:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] murgy31.livejournal.com
I would love this.... I read most now in RTF, but can definitely do epub...

Date: 2011-02-23 03:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bodleian.livejournal.com
I can't help with the details but I love my e-reader and would really appreciate any stories being put into a format that I can download.

Date: 2011-02-23 12:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] b3dst3.livejournal.com
I have a kindle 3 without 3G and use mobi format. It can take some PDF formats, but it doesn't work very well, because you cant change the font size and number of words in a line with PDF.

I use this online program to convert my own word and PDF documents into mobi and it works really well and who knows - one day it might be custom that those formats are offered for download.

http://www.online-convert.com/result/27ad7bf7002d882d208dee4270268ae0

Date: 2011-02-24 01:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spike7451.livejournal.com
Thank you so much for this info, off to D/L some fic to my kindle. :)

Date: 2011-02-28 09:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spike7451.livejournal.com
I did see it thanks, have it bookmarked to check out soon.

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