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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[robas]

You can make your KK stop indexing. See here for more info. It works for me.

[melinafandom]

Great post!

One thing about indexing -- IME, it goes faster if the Kindle is plugged in. So if you know you have a lot of indexing to do, plug it in while you sleep. How can you tell? From the home screen, do a search on a nonsense word -- xxyzx is my favorte -- and the search results will show 0, along with the number of unindexed files. If that number stays the same over a period of hours, then something's stuck, and you should delete those files and add them back a few at a time to try to unstick things.

Also, rather than just deleting read stories, I would really encourage looking into Calibre, which is free, great, ebook management software. It has extensive tagging support, which makes it easy to find and sort stories, and you can use it with the amazing FanFictionDownLoader plugin, which can pull stories just by entering the web address, and then automatically update them as, say, new chapters are added to WIP's

[moonlightmead]

Someone directed me to this post and through it I found this whole comm. Wow. (Now subscribed.) Thanks. This is really clear and helpful and explains so much.

I too didn't realise other people weren't downloading with Kindle Keyboards, and I too was having spectacular crashes, freezes and spontaneous... strangeness. And, funnily enough, I too have a Kindle packed with files numbering in the thousands rather than the dozens, most of them fairly small...

I love the idea of rebooting weekly whether it's necessary or not.