Things I Learned as a Fanfic Fan That Are Not Covered in the Kindle FAQ

[dmarley]

The recent post about downloading from AO3 has completely shamed me, because I've been doing that on my Kindle Keyboard for nearly two years now and never posted about how to get around the site's overload errors that were happening when I got my Kindle, or about how to deal with the glitch the previous poster mentioned. I just presumed that

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[belleweather]

Thank you, this is astoundingly helpful! My kindle (which I use about 90% of the time for fanfic) has just started behaving wonkily, and I'd never heard about any of these issues. Off I go to delete and reboot, and hopefully I'll be able to hang on to my KK for a bit longer -- I'm really not ready to lose the physical page-turning buttons quite yet!

[chamekke]

This is a fabulously helpful post, so thank you! For one thing I think you've managed to explain/find a solution to the hiccups my Kindle has developed lately (hint: it's crammed with fanfic). So it looks like I'll have to spend some time removing fics from My Precioussss! Ah well, I've got a Desert Island Fanfics collection and I can always keep the best of the best in there ;-)

Great advice about the occasional reboot although my cranky Precioussss is rendering this academic by spontaneously rebooting itself from time to time. Maybe if it stops doing that I'll help it out for old time's sake as you've recommended.

I just presumed that everyone else was doing what I was doing, and now I really wish I'd shared.

Meh, I think we all feel this way. I was the person who posted to the MobileRead forum earlier this summer to ask what the deal was with the new monthly 50MB cap on free 3G downloads, 'cause I'd just hit my 50MB limit and I was flummoxed. Turns out I was literally the first person anywhere to put my head over the parapet

[haikitteh]

Very informative post! I've also taken to occasionally rebooting and I think it does work to keep it "clean" and running smoothly.

I hate having to delete after I've read things, little packrat that I am, but wow, my K3 will run soooo sluggishly if I don't. I try to keep it way down to only the things I'm convinced I'll want to re-read.

[onebookwoman]

I want you to know that this advise was really helpful to me. I have an older model and had forgotten about the reboot process. I've been buying my fic from Amazon to avoid problems but I want more freedom and am glad that AO3 allows MOBI downloads now.

[germankitty]

Thanks, this really helps -- I pretty much have all the problems you describe as well.

*sigh*

I just had to replace my Kindle Keyboard and reuploaded/resorted close to 5000 files, all fanfics. After reading your report, guess I'll have to consolidate series even more, or delete stuff I don't necessarily want to keep to get my battery life up to more acceptable levels. Damn!