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  1. Ooo maybe this is old news but I just noticed #AO3 has the ability to download fics in #AZW3 format. Win for those who adore their Kindles 🥂

  2. In anticipation of Amazon removing support for “Download & transfer via USB” from their website, I dug out an old #Kindle, and it turns out that pre-6th gen Kindles download books in #AZW3 format that can be imported to Calibre via USB #ftw

    davidroessli.com/logs/2025/02/

  3. Pages 5 and 6 of "Orange", an original short story set in Appalachia. (from the PDF version, using Chrome's PDF viewer that doesn't know left from right.)

    If the whole idea of shillbilly Vance's egregious "Elegy" leaves a bad taste in your mouth, this could fix you right up. Also it's much, much shorter. And doesn't blame poor people for being poor.

    $2. l.xal.li/KOFI-ORNG

    #Writing #WeirdLit #Fiction #ShortStory #Ebook #PDF #EPub #MOBI #AZW3 #Appalachia #GettinSideways

  4. New short story available at the Ko-Fi shop!

    Skip the tedious cat-and-mouse stuff and jump right to the high-tension climax. This is the way you've always wanted the classic villain monologue to unfold!

    l.xal.li/KOFI-CONF

    #Horror #Fiction #HorrorFiction #DisturbingContent #WeirdLit #Amanuensis #PsychologicalHorror #CosmicHorror #EPUB #AZW3 #MOBI #PDF $2!

    #WritingCOmmunity #WritersCommunity #WritersOfMastodon #WritersOnMastodon

  5. #Kindle radzi sobie z formatem #AZW3 znacznie lepiej niż z #mobi. Przypisy wyświetlane są małym fontem na dole ekranu, a nie gigantycznym (większym niż normalny tekst) w okienku. Miejmy nadzieję, że nie będzie się też tak często wieszał.

    #Calibre jest w błędzie, że domyślnie używa konwersji do mobi, dla tych urządzeń.

  6. #Kindle handles #AZW3 format better than #mobi. The footnotes are shown in small font at the bottom, rather in a huge font (larger than text) in an overlay window. Hopefully it won't hang as often as it did with mobi either.

    #Calibre is very wrong to default to converting everything to mobi for these devices.

  7. 👉 #Amazon Kindle (both an old one and a newer Paperwhite); wi-fi, USB and Whispersync interfaces: sigh. Where to start?

    No #EPUB, of course; only stupid #MOBI. I have to use #Calibre to convert stuff (doesn’t always works well), then I can send to the Kindle via its special e-mail address, or copy over USB. Also: #AZW3, supposed to be an improved format, better for Amazon devices… but not allowed as a format to be sent over e-mail; only USB in that case. Why??

    I want to classify my documents in directories, thank you. Copy, move, delete at will. But there’s just one gigantic Documents directory, and everything thrown in there.

    Notes and highlights: I can only share them (export, send by e-mail) for certain types of docs, but not others (format? DRM? bought on Amazon?).

    …not to mention the whole opaque and annoying #DRM thing and the “you are not buying books, just borrowing them temporarily from Amazon” thing. Switching from one #Kindle to another, trying to share a document with friends, registering or deregistering an owner… those are all miserable experiences.

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