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Short, concise description of the ideaI am on several author communities, and since most of my stories reach up to 13,000 words and over, they won't fit in a normal LJ entry. Now I neither have a site nor am I computer savvy. I was thinking that anything in the form resembling a yahoo briefcase would be ideal for authors,
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Storage space is appealing, though.
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+1 Or a link to the next chapter at the bottom of the entry. My carpal tunnel really likes that.
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I should think any proposal for an extra paid feature would have to go past the bean-counters, and they'd want to know that enough people are going to buy the service to make it worthwhile. This does sound like a minority interest to me so I doubt they would go for it.
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An easy solution would probably the Web Page option.. even though you have a different version of word, I've found, you can always open a document saved in web page format with a browser, no matter the version. I have stories dating back to the '96 that are still going strong on my newest Mozilla
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It needn't be limited to documents either, although LJ/6A might want to impose some restrictions on what types of file are stored for security and liability reasons (i.e. no executables, or other likely virus-containers). Just a modest quantity of space per user (with the option to buy more if needed) in which they can store files, and easily or automatically link to them from their journals. Sensible size limits, with advice on moving to one of the commercial file-hosting services if you need something bigger. (Do 6A already own a file hosting service, I wonder?)
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My suggestions...
* Adobe Portable Document Format (pdf)
* Adobe PostScript (ps)
* Lotus 1-2-3 (wk1, wk2, wk3, wk4, wk5, wki, wks, wku)
* Lotus WordPro (lwp)
* MacWrite (mw)
* Microsoft Excel (xls)
* Microsoft PowerPoint (ppt)
* Microsoft Word (doc)
* Microsoft Works (wks, wps, wdb)
* Microsoft Write (wri)
* Rich Text Format (rtf)
* Text (ans, txt)
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