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Team Flyboy (thunking, shipping, discussion) - Lorne/Mitchell/Sheppard/O'Neill
So what is this program and does it work for downloaded Kindle on my laptop? I would love to have all my favs downloaded there, as well as seeing my own fic in "book" form. I was just about to break down and lose my scruples and read "Mosaic" when I saw y'all talking about your other, non-Lorne fics. **does happy dance** I have decided that, rather than waiting until I've written all my Lorne, I'm going to write down the basic outline of how I see his life, then I can go on to read some fics. **rubs hands together in anticipation** Now, to find time to write that outline.
I should start by saying that I don't have a Kindle or any other type of ereader. I do know that Hifield was able to download ff.net stories so simply using this website from her computer and they went right to her Kindle. Not sure if she has Kindle set up on her laptop too... will have to check later.
I was able to go to that site and simplly put in the i.d. number from the story I wanted, put in my email address and then I picked pdf as the format and within a few seconds I had an email from Flag with my story as a pdf complete with a cover page, disclaimer, summary and an index of the chapters that I could click on and be taken to that chapter. So I set up a new folder on my computer for stories I've downloaded.
The only downside I saw was that some of the formatting disappeared or was slightly altered, but very minimal and didn't really interfere with the story overall. I'm not sure if that happens for the other types of downloads... like to an ereader or kindle since those wouldn't be pdf format, but rather Mobipocket format for the kindle and EPUB for other ereaders.
One of the other upsides is that the .pdf file is named with the author's name then a dash and the name of the story, so it will be easy to sort stories by author on my computer later.
Sha, I agree you've got plenty of quality. Frankly, I don't know how you do all that writing. I love writing, don't get me wrong, but have so little time and you working and with little little Shas--I never had time when the little WWs were small. And yes, there is a new victim fan of GIMP, but I have no time to play with it. I've got an ITB chap to finish.
Thanks WW - not sure how I fit writing in either sometimes - to be honest it's probably way too many late nights when I should really be sleeping, plus ignoring other things I should be doing as well ... I get focused (the polite way of saying obsessed!) with things so if I get into a story I'll just hammer it until it's done (for Mosaic I wrote the whole thing in about two weeks - I was on holidays then though so I did have extra time - love holidays!!) ... if I get distracted then sometimes it's a while before I can recapture that focus. I type fast too just as well because my hand writing is TERRIBLE ... lol. I still say even a hundred words a day will be a story before you know it ... trying to reclaim that habit myself!
yay!! I had the beam in sequence all set to go too but got distracted by FGs request for full length Kavan. Who could ignore that? lol ... will have to use the beam in another day
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