The largest archive of fic's available for download I've come by is The PDA Fiction site. The site is no longer updated with new fic's, but you'll find a ton of (fan) fic's from a number of writers available for download in a multiple of formats.
If you can't make use of the formats available at PDA Fiction you can get a free reader that support a multiple of format it's called Stanza, and it's available for both Mac / Windows-pc and iPhone/iPad (download here) or you can download Calibra - a free software that will let you organise your eBooks, read a multiple of formats and convert files to and from a multiple of formats.
This summer The Athenaeum started posting a number of the fic's archived at the site in eBook formats too, but I don't think that the crew at The Athenaeum is working on producing more eBook's at the moment, but still if you are lucky your favourite fic's is available for download at The Athenaeum.
I've also found that Auxip.com offers some titles in an eBook format - The Rocketreader format - Auxip have left a link to a download of the RocketReader software, but I really can't recommend it - I never got used to the reader. Files in RocketReaderformat can be converted by way of Calibre.
The Royal Academy of Bards has also made a number of stories available in the RocketReader format, and has linked to the site where the reader can be downloaded.
Showing posts with label Geekish stuff. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Geekish stuff. Show all posts
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Do you know the feeling
.... you do remember a few highlights from a storyline but you just can't locate the story among your bookmarked links or remember the title or the pen name of the author of the fic?
If you know the feeling and you are desperate enough to seek help ;-) you might register as a user at The Forum of The Athenaeum - this is a great place to ask fellow (fan)fiction readers for help to locate a story. If you look through the requests for help that has been posted at The Forum over time - you'll see that even just a few key points from a storyline will trick someone's mind to come up with a title, name of the writer and a link to the story you are looking for.
I wouldn't hesitate to ask the members of The Forum for help - they are real friendly bunch.
If you know the feeling and you are desperate enough to seek help ;-) you might register as a user at The Forum of The Athenaeum - this is a great place to ask fellow (fan)fiction readers for help to locate a story. If you look through the requests for help that has been posted at The Forum over time - you'll see that even just a few key points from a storyline will trick someone's mind to come up with a title, name of the writer and a link to the story you are looking for.
I wouldn't hesitate to ask the members of The Forum for help - they are real friendly bunch.
Monday, July 12, 2010
Search for Fan Fiction
A couple of weeks ago I blogged on the theme of sports fic’s all based on outdoor sports and I hinted that I might put together a list of fic's on a basketball theme, when the indoor season comes around. A comment from one of you tells me that at least one of you would really like a guide to basketballs fic’s … like now and not when the indoor season comes around.
Well I would like to oblige, but I have this sort of rule to my reviewing that I will read or perhaps reread any of the fic’s that I review - before I blog about them. As some of the basketball fic’s that I know are rather long, I can't really fit a review on basketball fic's into my summer schedule at the moment and just leaving you with a number of links - naahh don't want you to think that I'll recommend just anything. But .... I don’t want to leave anyone hanging - I’ll rather give you a hint on how to help yourself search for fic’s with themes to your liking.
If you are familiar with one of my two favourite fan fiction archives “The Athenaeum” you might have noticed that this site present you with a search facility. If you choose to do an advanced search, you’ll be treated to a number of possible searches, one of these is the possibility to search by “teasers”.
Should you search teasers for the word basketball this is the list of fic’s that you will be presented with.
I hope this will help you get your hands on the sort of fic’s that you enjoy the most.
Well I would like to oblige, but I have this sort of rule to my reviewing that I will read or perhaps reread any of the fic’s that I review - before I blog about them. As some of the basketball fic’s that I know are rather long, I can't really fit a review on basketball fic's into my summer schedule at the moment and just leaving you with a number of links - naahh don't want you to think that I'll recommend just anything. But .... I don’t want to leave anyone hanging - I’ll rather give you a hint on how to help yourself search for fic’s with themes to your liking.
If you are familiar with one of my two favourite fan fiction archives “The Athenaeum” you might have noticed that this site present you with a search facility. If you choose to do an advanced search, you’ll be treated to a number of possible searches, one of these is the possibility to search by “teasers”.
Should you search teasers for the word basketball this is the list of fic’s that you will be presented with.
I hope this will help you get your hands on the sort of fic’s that you enjoy the most.
The Wayback Mashine by UK
I don’t know maybe it’s the heat, sunstroke, dehydration or perhaps a combination of said things or else it could be divine inspiration … what ever the reason I’ve been thinking that it’s been too long since I let you all have a peek at my more geekish side.
In a combination with my review of “Mac vs PC” by Feltcher DeLancey I gave you a short run through of how to create you own eBooks and convert the files into the formats that you need for your offline reader.
This time I’ll let you in on how to find what has been lost on the web. It’s really quite simple all you have to do is get hold of the URL (address) of the web-page that you wish to access in an earlier version than the one presently available or perhaps no longer available. Once you have the URL, you go to the homepage of “The Internet Archive” also called “The Wayback Machine” and type in the URL.
The Wayback Machine will present you with a list of all the available archived versions of the site that matches the URL that you have typed. Select any of the dates available and you will be taken back to the archived version of the site. If you are real lucky you’ll even find that the links available on the archived site is still working ;-)
It’s really not as difficult as it might look when described in writing. Do try it out … perhaps you’ll find a long-lost (fan) fiction that you love. Ok - I know it doesn’t work every time, as not every site on the web has been archived, but I’ve found quite a few well-loved – and lost - stories this way.
In a combination with my review of “Mac vs PC” by Feltcher DeLancey I gave you a short run through of how to create you own eBooks and convert the files into the formats that you need for your offline reader.
This time I’ll let you in on how to find what has been lost on the web. It’s really quite simple all you have to do is get hold of the URL (address) of the web-page that you wish to access in an earlier version than the one presently available or perhaps no longer available. Once you have the URL, you go to the homepage of “The Internet Archive” also called “The Wayback Machine” and type in the URL.
The Wayback Machine will present you with a list of all the available archived versions of the site that matches the URL that you have typed. Select any of the dates available and you will be taken back to the archived version of the site. If you are real lucky you’ll even find that the links available on the archived site is still working ;-)
It’s really not as difficult as it might look when described in writing. Do try it out … perhaps you’ll find a long-lost (fan) fiction that you love. Ok - I know it doesn’t work every time, as not every site on the web has been archived, but I’ve found quite a few well-loved – and lost - stories this way.
Friday, April 09, 2010
Mac vs PC by Fletcher DeLancey
I’m not a computer geek, but I have found something a little geekish that I like a lot; it’s a html merger from Iterati. This software can help you merge two or more html files into one. This is a great thing if you like to read online fiction while you are offline and the stories you are interested in is not available for download.
In plain English what you can do is to save a story that are divided into two or more parts directly from you browser and merge the separate parts into one story and it’s really simple. All you have to do is to drag the saved html files onto the screen of the htmlmerger and point to the destination where you want the merged file to be saved. If you use Calibre for Ebook management you can convert the merged file to a format that you can read on you eBook reader - see this previous review for information on Calibre.
The only thing that I found a real geekish about the Iterati software was that I had to download yet another program - WinRAR - to be able to decompress the Iterati software after download, but it all went smoothly so I’ll live with geekish.
If you are still with me there is a chance that you are just a tiny bit interested in what computers can do for you, and if you would like to see how well romance and computer stuff mix, you might look up Fletcher DeLancey’s “Mac vs PC”.
Wouldn’t you just love to have a coffee shop that serves double caramel mocha and chocolate cherry scone to die for within walking distance of your home? Well maybe not as it’s bound to cost you on the treadmill if you want to spend a matching number of calories before or after you indulge!
Anyway Anna – who work for the IT-department at the local campus – indulge herself with coffee and scone at the “Bean Grinder” every Saturday. On this particular Saturday Anna meet Elizabeth Markel at “Bean Grinder” as Elisabeth’s laptop crashes, while she is having coffee and editing a report. A helping hand in saving the file earns Anna a coffee date the next Saturday and a chance to get to know Elizabeth a little better, and it does seem to me that both Anna and Elisabeth are interested in striking up at least a friendship. But a friendship and perhaps something more turns out to be just a little difficult to achieve as Anna soon learns something about Elisabeth, that make Anna judge her as unattainable. Well you’ve got to go read the story yourself to see what this is and if it’s something that can be overcome.
In this story you will get a little of everything – a bit of “When Harry met Sally”, some advise on how to find your auto saved files, information on the virtues’ of the Mac and on a new way of earning a toaster, and as a surplus a little romance. I think that even if this story is a bit heavy on messages there are still a charming romance at the heart of it, so if you want to “merge” an interest in computers with a little romance – go look up “Mac vs Pc.
The story is available in one part at www.fletcherdelancey.com so you don’t even have to try out the html merger software to read it offline ;-)
In plain English what you can do is to save a story that are divided into two or more parts directly from you browser and merge the separate parts into one story and it’s really simple. All you have to do is to drag the saved html files onto the screen of the htmlmerger and point to the destination where you want the merged file to be saved. If you use Calibre for Ebook management you can convert the merged file to a format that you can read on you eBook reader - see this previous review for information on Calibre.
The only thing that I found a real geekish about the Iterati software was that I had to download yet another program - WinRAR - to be able to decompress the Iterati software after download, but it all went smoothly so I’ll live with geekish.
If you are still with me there is a chance that you are just a tiny bit interested in what computers can do for you, and if you would like to see how well romance and computer stuff mix, you might look up Fletcher DeLancey’s “Mac vs PC”.
Wouldn’t you just love to have a coffee shop that serves double caramel mocha and chocolate cherry scone to die for within walking distance of your home? Well maybe not as it’s bound to cost you on the treadmill if you want to spend a matching number of calories before or after you indulge!
Anyway Anna – who work for the IT-department at the local campus – indulge herself with coffee and scone at the “Bean Grinder” every Saturday. On this particular Saturday Anna meet Elizabeth Markel at “Bean Grinder” as Elisabeth’s laptop crashes, while she is having coffee and editing a report. A helping hand in saving the file earns Anna a coffee date the next Saturday and a chance to get to know Elizabeth a little better, and it does seem to me that both Anna and Elisabeth are interested in striking up at least a friendship. But a friendship and perhaps something more turns out to be just a little difficult to achieve as Anna soon learns something about Elisabeth, that make Anna judge her as unattainable. Well you’ve got to go read the story yourself to see what this is and if it’s something that can be overcome.
In this story you will get a little of everything – a bit of “When Harry met Sally”, some advise on how to find your auto saved files, information on the virtues’ of the Mac and on a new way of earning a toaster, and as a surplus a little romance. I think that even if this story is a bit heavy on messages there are still a charming romance at the heart of it, so if you want to “merge” an interest in computers with a little romance – go look up “Mac vs Pc.
The story is available in one part at www.fletcherdelancey.com so you don’t even have to try out the html merger software to read it offline ;-)
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