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Fanfic Ebooks

Two new ebooks are available in the Archive:

Star Trek Heritage Book 1 - A Break with Tradition by T.L. Shull, better known in the Trek and Twitter communities as 'Terilynn'.

Dispatches from the Romulan War - Volume 1 - Salem One by multiple authors from over at the TrekUnited forum.

http://ebooks.merknet.com
 
RichMerk said:
In a PDF, the text and layout is fixed. When you display it on an ereader, you have to take the pages as they are, just as you would if you were viewing it on a computer screen. The problem is that ereader screens are too small for your typical PDF layout, so you wind up having to zoom in and manually panning back and forth to read it. So, yeah, technically you can read PDF's on an ereader, but it's a very negative experience.
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Really? Huh. Granted, I've only just got my ebook reader but I haven't noticed the problems you describe with pdfs. And I have, among others, a rather complex pdf file on my reader (which originally contained hyperlinks). Sometimes, the formatting is a bit off, but most of these pdfs weren't well formatted, anyway. Could this be a reader specific problem?

That said, I really like your idea with the archive. I'll definetely check it out for stuff to put on my reader. I used to be an avid fan fic reader (don't have much time at the moment) but having to read it on the computer has always been somewhat impractical and straining.
 
I have a kindle, love it. why don't you simply convert your pdf by uploading them to your kindle email address? I do this all the time.
 
Count Zero said:
RichMerk said:
In a PDF, the text and layout is fixed. When you display it on an ereader, you have to take the pages as they are, just as you would if you were viewing it on a computer screen. The problem is that ereader screens are too small for your typical PDF layout, so you wind up having to zoom in and manually panning back and forth to read it. So, yeah, technically you can read PDF's on an ereader, but it's a very negative experience.
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Really? Huh. Granted, I've only just got my ebook reader but I haven't noticed the problems you describe with pdfs. And I have, among others, a rather complex pdf file on my reader (which originally contained hyperlinks). Sometimes, the formatting is a bit off, but most of these pdfs weren't well formatted, anyway. Could this be a reader specific problem?

That said, I really like your idea with the archive. I'll definetely check it out for stuff to put on my reader. I used to be an avid fan fic reader (don't have much time at the moment) but having to read it on the computer has always been somewhat impractical and straining.
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I don't know about other ereaders but kindle can convert pdf by uploading them to the kindle email addy you are assigned to when you activate your kindle.
 
There's lots of ways to make ebooks. Anyone can convert pretty much anything they want to read using the Kindle conversion service and have a perfectly readable end product, though not necessarily as beautiful and professional looking as it could potentially be.

I'm just saying that all the ebooks on my archive are guaranteed to be properly formatted, complete with cover illustration, be fast loading, and look fabulous! :)
 
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