Recently read books
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luzulaI am getting tons of reading done, what with all the traveling. A couple of months ago, I finally caved and got myself an ereader (a Pocketbook 360) and wow, I love it! Such a relief not be lugging lots of books around. I am reading lots of fic, too, which is a good thing since my to-read list had grown really long, but it would be far too much work to write about it all (although I do have a good workflow for leaving comments, at least).
Frontier Wolf, by Rosemary Sutcliff
By now I feel like I know what I'll get when I read a Sutcliff book. Which is not a bad thing, because I love her writing! Nnngh, there were some truly lovely descriptive passages in this book. And the characters and plot really worked for me, too. I didn't really see the Alexios/Hilarion that seems to be the popular pairing, though? Alexios/Cunorix was far more obvious to me (though wow, talk about tragic), and I see thatisis has recently written this pairing. *puts on to-read list* Although I mostly read this book as gen, actually--it doesn't particularly make me want shippy fic.
A Matter of Oaths, by Helen S. Wright
This has been recced on my reading list (though I don't remember by whom) and you can download it for free at the link above. It's science fiction, and my favorite bit was the worldbuilding, with spaceships being run by a tightly knit team of people communing while submerged in a "web". There's a canon gay couple and a nicely twisty plot, too. This book falls into the "I enjoyed it, but it didn't blow my mind" category, I suppose.
Frontier Wolf, by Rosemary Sutcliff
By now I feel like I know what I'll get when I read a Sutcliff book. Which is not a bad thing, because I love her writing! Nnngh, there were some truly lovely descriptive passages in this book. And the characters and plot really worked for me, too. I didn't really see the Alexios/Hilarion that seems to be the popular pairing, though? Alexios/Cunorix was far more obvious to me (though wow, talk about tragic), and I see that
isis has recently written this pairing. *puts on to-read list* Although I mostly read this book as gen, actually--it doesn't particularly make me want shippy fic. A Matter of Oaths, by Helen S. Wright
This has been recced on my reading list (though I don't remember by whom) and you can download it for free at the link above. It's science fiction, and my favorite bit was the worldbuilding, with spaceships being run by a tightly knit team of people communing while submerged in a "web". There's a canon gay couple and a nicely twisty plot, too. This book falls into the "I enjoyed it, but it didn't blow my mind" category, I suppose.
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Date: 2013-02-23 09:51 pm (UTC)But this is what I do: I find a fic on AO3 that I want to do. Then I mark it as "to read" and download the epub into a "new fics" folder on my Dropbox. When I need to connect my ereader for charging, I also upload all the epubs in the "new fics" folder to the "fic" folder on the ereader. Then I move those epubs from the "new fics" folder to a "reading" folder on Dropbox.
When I've read a fic on the ereader, I mark it as read. Then every once in while, I go through all the fics marked as read on the ereader, and I open them up in my browser. I give comments/kudos and mark the fics as read. Then I erase them from my ereader. If I want to keep the fic, I move it from the "reading" folder to the "have read" folder on my Dropbox (which has fandom sub-folders), otherwise I erase it from the "reading" folder. And that's it!
If I'm someplace without internet for long (like up in the mountains) I keep a doc file for comments to paste in later, since I know I'll forget what I wanted to say otherwise.
Marking it as to-read on AO3 is a bit redundant, I suppose, but I like being able to see all the fics in a list, and anyway it's just two extra clicks to mark/unmark. Also, if I download something not on AO3, I use the "grabmybooks" extension on Firefox.
Many Thanks!
Date: 2013-02-23 10:11 pm (UTC)In short: http://youtu.be/eEcLuVhRbkU
Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing!
(one of the best pop duets EVER!!!!)
Re: Many Thanks!
Date: 2013-02-27 10:26 pm (UTC)I really like the Pocketbook. It reads a wide range of file types (including epub, mobi, doc, pdf, rtf, and html), and it's very customizable (apparently you can change a lot about the display, and map the buttons to whichever function you want). You connect it just like an ordinary external hard drive your computer. It has no keyboard, but then I don't use it for writing anyway. This is the review that convinced me to buy it.
Alas, am on internet too crappy for streaming now, but I'll listen to it later!