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Great Downloader!

Jun 21, 2014 20:29

Hi all! New member here. Just introducing myself. I have a Kindle Fire HD that is a year and a half old. I pretty much love everything about it, except maybe the fact that I can't organize my files on the Kindle or in the cloud. This really is something Amazon should address at some point ( Read more... )

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? fenris_wolf0 June 22 2014, 04:26:43 UTC

Instead of using a third party app, I recommend using FanfictionDownloader, a very reliable Calibre add-in by Jim Miller.

It's regularly updated, does a very clean job of the multi-chapter downloads and makes updating WIPs easy.

Re: ? fenris_wolf0 June 22 2014, 05:13:00 UTC

But the Storymaster downloader is great for sites like Adultfanfiction etc. which FanfictionDownloader does not handle.

Re: ? celestlyn June 22 2014, 05:28:35 UTC

Also, the reason I hooked up with the Storymaster site was because my downloader (Raimond's) was no longer working on ff.net. Now that you mention it, when I downloaded the latest version of Calibre it had the option to download fanfic. I'm still not sure how to make it send straight to Kindle. I think someone said it would do that, but maybe they meant that it converted to mobi and I would have to email the file to the Kindle. Either way would be fine, it's just that I love eliminating as many steps as possible.

Emailing directly from Calibre without connecting your Kindle to your PC fenris_wolf0 June 22 2014, 21:47:56 UTC

It's one of the setup options of Calibre: you can re-run the setup wizard at anytime (from the main menu) without messing up your existing settings to enable the direct email functionality. Then you can send your fanfic straight to your Kindle(s). This has always been a function of Calibre? There is a very useful Calibre complete demo here: http://calibre-ebook.com/demo

Personally I prefer to use Calibre to keep my whole library: that way I always have a complete backup organized the way I like it regardless of what happens to my eReader(s). One becomes easily paranoid when one has lived through iPods and iTunes happily eating and losing one's music library more than ten times over the years... :D

And I still read fanfic on my PC quite often since it makes leaving feedback/kudos much easier: offline reading makes it impossible and if I don't do it right away as I finish a story, I forget!

Re: Emailing directly from Calibre without connecting your Kindle to your PC celestlyn June 22 2014, 22:18:58 UTC

That all makes perfect sense. I'll see if I can figure out how to utilize the send to kindle option. I watched the video tutorial when I first started using Calibre, but it has gone through several incarnations since then and I'm unclear on a couple of the newer options ( ... )

Re: external HD crash I feel your pain! fenris_wolf0 June 22 2014, 23:18:18 UTC

It also happened to me once and I'm still twitchy thinking about it two years later!

But you're in luck: just store your Calibre library on Dropbox (that's what I do) or the cloud service of your choice, ebooks are remarkably small files compared to video or even audio, and your ebooks library should survive any computer or eReader premature demise.

Also, that way it makes no difference whether you add/edit/organize books from one PC or the other! You can also install and use the portable version of Calibre from a USB key if you are too busy to update Calibre constantly twice...

I do not use Collections myself, but Calibre has a Collection feature available which I think predates the HDX Collections and which you may want to check out as it may help you even with the Fire HD?

Re: Amazon Cloud fenris_wolf0 June 22 2014, 23:33:52 UTC

Oh, I meant to add: the fanfics I download directly from AO3 to my Kindle are NOT saved to my Amazon Cloud account, are yours? Which I don't mind, frankly, as I wouldn't want Amazon getting a long look at the (really racy) stuff I read on AO3: they might end up tailoring their recommendations off of them! Under my own name and account, no less! :D ( ... )

Re: Amazon Cloud celestlyn June 23 2014, 04:40:56 UTC

When I go to the home screen on my KF hd there is the normal carousel across the screen. Then above that is a list of functions. Games, Apps, Books, Music, Videos, Newstand, Audiobooks, Web, Photos and Docs. If I click on docs, I get a screen showing all of my fanfics. At the top of that page is a choice between Cloud and Device. If I choose Device, the fics that are stored on my device will be listed in a long list to scroll through. If I choose Cloud, I also get a list, but it's more complete. One that lists all of the fics I have on the device, plus those that are stored in my Kindle Cloud. When I go to Amazon.com and go to Personal Document Settings, there is a listing for Personal Document Archiving. This is what it says under that heading: Personal Document Archiving ( ... )

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