A lifetime in a decade

[aome]

Inspired by a post I saw on my flist, I'm linking to a post I made approximately ten years ago. (The actual ten-years-ago post was much more boring.) But still - wow, my life has changed. We were waiting anxiously for Two, MiniPlu wasn't potty-trained yet, and I didn't have a free minute to myself because she was still so little. Our house was

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[chinawolf]

I don't think I'd travel anymore without my ereader and ipod stacked with comfort fic and comfort podfic - which does to have a semi-embarrassing amount of kidfic (i.e. fic in which the OTP has or gets to have kids), hence my answer on the poll. Two links:

DILF - a Teen Wolf AU in which Stiles is Derek's kid's kindergarten teacher (can seriously be read without canon knowledge) (podfic version)
A Beautiful Lifetime Event - an SGA fic in which Rodney and John accidentally have a child together (these things tended to happen on that series). (podfic version)

and a whole host of other comfort fic. ;) I don't think I have comfort books anymore.

[aome]

You're not the only person to have said that what they'd bring is favorite fanfic. I admit that I haven't tried downloading fic to an e-reader I'm traveling with. I'm not even sure I would know how! *sheepish*

[chinawolf]

On the kindle, it's pretty easy, I think. You can either email it to your kindle, or directly browse onto the AO3 on your kindle's browser and download the .mobi file ( link).

... I guess that presupposes you read all your fic on the AO3. I don't even know if you do, in my fandoms it's just the be all, end all site for fanfic, so I don't even think about other sites anymore. I'm sure if you get fic from other sites, you can also make .mobi (=kindle) files yourself, maybe with the opensource program Calibre, which handles all ereader management.

If you are an Amazon-denier and have a Kobo or similar (like I have), you can either download stories from the AO3 in .epub format and use Calibre to get them onto your device, or browse onto the AO3 if the device has a browser and download it (that's how I usually do it).

[aome]

I don't have a Kindle Fire - I have a Paperwhite. The only browsing I can do is to the Amazon store. No email there, either. I'm thinking maybe I could download a fic to my computer as a .pdf and get it onto the Kindle via syncing. I know my BIL reads fic on his non-Fire Kindle all the time; I'll have to ask him at some point.

[chinawolf]

That's curious, i thought every proper kindle since the first one had the email-to-kindle thing - maybe amazon stopped it at some point. And you really don't have a browser on the Paperwhite?! I mean, the Kobo browser is utterly useless for actual browsing, but it just suffices for hitting the DL button on the AO3. I would be shocked if it were impossible whatsoever to browse on the Paperwhite, which is after all fairly new.

In the very least, the downloading thing should work though. But skip thethe cumbersome PDFs, .mobi is the kindle format after all.