E-book stores aren’t the only place to find reading material for your gadget of choice.
Wesley Fryer blogs about another source: fanfic. I covered fanfic to a certain extent in my Paleo E-books columns, but mostly with an emphasis on the past. Fryer points out that the fanfic community has not stood still either.
Many fanfic stories are hosted on FanFiction.net. There are an app called Fanfiction Downloader and (as a commenter points out) a similar fanfic downloading web app that will take these stories and package them in HTML or e-book form. (The app makes MobiPocket books; the web app makes ePub.)
I tried out the web app myself, and found it quite easy to use: just paste the URL of a given fanfic, and it becomes an ePub. It only supports four fanfic sites so far, but those sites are full of plenty of fan-written fiction. Any e-book fan who is also a fanfic fan will never run out of reading material.
(Found via retweet by @stanza_reader.)
I’m still hoping someone creates a similar program for Livejournal posted stories.
I am desperately hoping someone creates that program. i would be happy to donate to the cause if possible.
“I am desperately hoping someone creates that program.”
Yes, yes, yes. Because (for the sake of those who are scratching their heads now) LiveJournal and sites that use LiveJournal’s open-source code are one of the major places to find fan fiction . . . and certain types of original fiction, for that matter.