While sending a file to your Kindle email does convert it if it needs to be converted, there is a list of valid file types for which Amazon will perform this service. Adobe PDF. First, you want to set a per-document charge limit :. If you have a tight-knit group of co-workers, you can even whitelist an entire domain, like yoursuperawesomecompany. Tinderizer is super effing easy. The easiest. I tried this using our latest long read and it looks great!
Tinderizer is completely free, but donations are appreciated to keep the server running. I think the technology is great—I love e-ink like crazy and it weighs, like, nothing. Meaning you can get your e-books from anywhere might I recommend Emily Books? It is Independent Bookstore Day, after all! You can set up Calibre to email books to your Kindle using the above-mentioned Kindle email, or if you want to get fancy, you can set up a server.
Calibre also comes with a user manual, which I sent to my Kindle to test the conversion—it looks fabulous. To set up a household, both adults need to be present at the same computer so that both can sign in with their Amazon credentials.
Other people will then be able to access the shared material on their registered devices. Back when I was in customer-facing IT, when people asked me about this I would just mumble through it. Mmm-blerp-a-derp and then you have books from your library. It really is that easy. The only caveat is that the process is a little different for everyone, depending on your library and what sorts of things they have on offer.
So head to your local library and see what you have to do to borrow e-books. You just have to be aware of some things before you start. Then other websites definitely have guides on jailbreaking your device. Osworth is part-time Faculty at The New School, where they teach undergraduates the art of digital storytelling. Their novel, We Are Watching Eliza Bright , about a game developer dealing with harassment and narrated collectively by a fictional subreddit , is forthcoming from Grand Central Publishing April and is available for pre-order now.
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I use the Chrome version but there is a firefox and iOS as well as software you can use to send anything on your computer by right clicking. It works well on any web page you want to read later. When you click on the icon in your browser bar it gives you the option to just send the whole page or else edit and format the text before sending.
I use this constantly to send fanfic chapters from fanfiction. So much more enjoyable than reading off of my laptop screen! Figuring out how to send the internet to my Kindle straight up changed my life.
Going to check out your link and also tinderizer to see what I like best :. Thinking about getting a paperwhite in addition to the ipad for reading in sunlight. I think it is the best all-round eink reading screen currently available and do most of my reading on it. And I think that the poll should have Naruto as one of the choices seeing as it has many more fans than Twilight, not to mention more fanfics. I have been reading fanfiction for years and just got a Kindle.
I'll definitely be using this. Great stuff :. You could definitely do all your reading without spending another dime! Thanks for stopping by. I didn't realize I could read Fan Fiction on my Kindle. I'll be giving this a try! It sounds like a good idea so worth looking into. Hope this info is useful to other people looking for methods of getting fanfiction on to a kindle.
Personal Finance. Welcome to HubPages. Related Articles. Dessert Recipes. By Shawn Fels. By Party Girl. By Gregory DeVictor. By Cheryl E Preston. By Liam A Ryan. By John Macleans. By hglick. Individual Sports. By Shaun. It won me over despite my not wanting an e-reader as I stare at monitors all day for work.
Its e-ink display is not like looking at a screen at all and I appreciate that I can jack up the font size as needed, eliminating the need to wear cheaters. I recommend getting a case for it that includes a hand strap: due to its size about the width of a closed paperback , I found it awkward to hold with two hands but found one hand gets tired after gripping it after a half-hour or so.
I just did and I love it. I would literally marry my paperwhite if human-electronics marriage were legal. Best answer: I used to have a standard e-ink kindle, then switched to a kindle fire because I wanted to read comics on it as well. It works well enough as an e-reader, but I don't like it for fanfic, because it wants to sort emailed or downloaded files differently than books in my device library - the fanfic is stored in another place on the device and often, if I start something, read part of something else, then come back to the first thing, it has forgotten my place.
Plus, yeah, the eyestrain issue. When my fire is sufficiently worn out that I can justify replacing it, I will be going with a paperwhite. Definitely a kindle paperwhite--the e-ink is much much easier on the eyes.
I also have a Fire for reading comics, though. AO3 lets you download in several formats, including mobi. There are also sites that will convert ff. They really are durable, I just keep doing things like leaving mine on planes or on the roofs of cars. I think the actual hardware devices may be loss leaders, since Amazon just keeps replacing mine free of charge? Response by poster: These comments are all helpful; I didn't know about the. I also wasn't sure if there was an e-reader with a functioning web-browser built into it.
Looks like the Paperwhite is the 1 contender. Note that if you get a non-backlit Kindle, you can get a clip-on booklight to illuminate the screen if you need it. However, the Paperwhite and more expensive Kindles also have higher resolution and are therefore even easier on the eyes.
And also to be clear, the Fire is a tablet, a backlit device just like a phone, with all he same drawbacks. For lots of reading, you will never, ever regret getting a real Kindle and the batteries go forever between charges. Another voice to the chorus for the Kindle paperwhite. I've probably done about hours of reading in the last week, all on the paperwhite, and my eyeballs are doing great.
I'm in front of screens most of my waking hours, and the Kindle is just a totally different experience. I email all kinds of things to my Kindle--it supports pdfs and you can turn anything into a. Dead easy. My Kindle is some of the best money I've ever spent.
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