Long fics for Kindle

[mila2005.livejournal.com]

Hey guys!

I'm getting a Kindle for Christmas and I wanted to add some fanfiction to it :D However, it's hard to find Bottom!Draco fics in such files...or I don't know where to search for them ^^ Does anybody know a good site or megaupload account with a lot of fic on it? I would have to be Bottom!Draco (no switching) and I prefer long (>50000) fics.

Thanks in advance!!

PS: Happy endings please! But can be angsty before :D
PPS: Didn't really know how to tag this request...

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[hidders.livejournal.com]

You don't really find them, you make them yourself.
Help: http://hidders.livejournal.com/10622.html
Choose a downloader that has MOBI as a format.

[mila2005.livejournal.com]

Hey thanks for the quick response! I've heard about the ways of doing the files myself, but I wanted to actively search for fics that are already in those files ;) I know for example Supernatural has a lot of them, so I thought maybe there are some for Harry Potter as well! Specially because I wanted new fics and on fanfiction.net for example, it's hard to know if it's bottom!Draco.

[immortal-kat.livejournal.com]

You can also try the Ebook Library. Has a Harry Potter Section.

http://amalthia.mediawood.net/ebooks/

Also Archive of Our Own allows you to download in EPUB format which is compatible with KOBO.

[etheriaelle.livejournal.com]

You don't even have to have a downloader or reformat. You save to your hard drive or word then attach your document to a new e-mail or forward an existing e-mail that has a document attached. Put convert in the subject line. Address the e-mail to your Kindle e-mail address. If your Kindle has 3-G you can address it to your Kindle e-mail address@free.kindle.com

All this is already loaded into your Kindle when you get it. I would advise you to check out the downloaders to see which one suits you. I like Calibre for my personal use, but there are several others that work well. Shop around. SendToReader is great for fests that use Google Reader to store longer fics on one page. It sits on your tool bar and with one click you can send the fic to your Kindle in seconds. I did about 30 fics recently in a fest in less than two minutes using it. I have had luck on other sites as well. I just click it to see if it works first when I want to download something. It either does or doesn't, no harm if it don't. Archive of Own (AO3) is great and allows you to download in Mobi. I noticed a Kindle user's site at LJ the other day with tips and ideas. Not on my computer so I don't know the name. You can probably put kindle in search and find it easily enough.

Don't worry. By the new year you will probably have pages of titles loaded and ready to go. I know you are going to love it.

[germankitty]

You save to your hard drive or word then attach your document to a new e-mail or forward an existing e-mail that has a document attached. Put convert in the subject line. Address the e-mail to your Kindle e-mail address. If your Kindle has 3-G you can address it to your Kindle e-mail address@free.kindle.com

I used to do that when I got my Kindle last year. The trouble with that is, your regular email address (with which you're registered at amazon) shows up as the "author". Since then, I've switched to using www.flagfic.com (which supports not only Ffnet, but a ton of HP-specific archives), download as .mobi and transfer to my Kindle via USB.

Maybe a bit more effort, but it LOOKS so much prettier! :)

[etheriaelle.livejournal.com]

When I download I usually, store to Calibre since Amazon did not store personal documents when I got my Kindle. I just make sure the author is in the meta. It transfers to Kindle with the author's name. Took me forever, and I had a lot of help from a techy to set my Calibre up so that it did everything I wanted it to. In the beginning I got a lot of ugly things with my e-mail address as author, too.

[germankitty]

Unfortunately, Calibre won't run on my laptop. Dunno whether it's an incompatibility between the software and my German-language version of Windows7 or what, but I've given up after half a dozen attempts. :(

[hidders.livejournal.com]

Actually the free Kindle e-mail address only works on WiFi, Amazon holds your personal document until you connect with WiFi (I have a 3G Kindle). And you never want to use the standard e-mail address unless you are okay with paying 3G delivery charges. The other thing to remember about e-mail transfers is that everything will now be backed up at you Amazon account so you don't need to keep the files on your Kindle, you can delete them and redownload them later from your Archive and save space.

I'm with germankitty that USB transfer is best. I also like the look of FanfictionDownloader's web downloader saves more than FlagFic, they also don't have all that added FlagFic copyright stuff. But that's something for the reader to decide since it's all about personal taste.

[etheriaelle.livejournal.com]

I have 3G Kindle and I do the free.Kindle thing all the time. Never had a problem or charge. You don't want other people sending things to your e-mail, but if they send you an attachment you can forward it to Kindle and convert it free. Or at least I am able to. It is nice that now your personal documents are stored on cloud storage. I hated that I used to lose the personal documents when I deleted them, hence why I really liked Calibre, because I could keep them there, well, and I can set Calibre up to automatically load feeds of newspapers and certain blogs and e-mail it to my Kindle as a single feed, pick out anything I want to keep after reading and save only that portion back to Calibre. I have never used USB a single time except to put the wall charger on the end and never take it off, nor have I paid for transfers or conversion and I have hundreds if not thousands of fanfics loaded. I too favor Fanfiction Downloader for the sites it works with, but like you say, it's personal.