Oh god, I just realized I can put an e-reader on this thing.

[giandujakiss]

I have never appreciated the "download as epub" option on AO3 more.

*goes on a downloading frenzy*

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[gelasius]

That's one of my favorite things about having a smartphone. I can use it to READ BOOKS. AND FIC. :P

[giandujakiss]

It's amazing. Now what do I do about the hard copy books I wish I had in e-form???

[yhlee]

I did that when I realized I could read epub files on my iPod Touch. :-D FIC FOR ALL.

[giandujakiss]

And now I'm suddenly so disappointed when my fave authors aren't on A03! Or don't at least make their stories available in a single html file (which I can also use with my ereader).

Harrumph.

[nell_blake]

Via friends of friends- delurking with a link that could help with non-A03 authors.

Someone flagged this site as being able to convert HTML stories to epub etc.

http://flag.erayd.net/

I haven't tried it myself, but the OP said it worked great.

[giandujakiss]

Oh, neat, thanks!

[darkemeralds]

I am CRAZY about AO3's ePub conversion tool. Since I switched to an Android phone a few months ago, I've begun reading fic again avidly. There was a long dry spell, which, I finally had to admit, was due to an unsatisfactory reading device and AO3 having not yet introduced the tool.

[giandujakiss]

Well, I think my reading habits are about to change - I'm definitely going to be more likely to read things that are either on A03, or that are posted in a single html somewhere.

[darkemeralds]

Yep. I used to spend great chunks of time copy-pasting multi-chapter stories from LJ into an HTML editor so I could arrive at exactly the outcome that the AO3 now makes available with one click.

The story would have to be awfully good to make me do that now. And even though my reading device of choice is now a smartphone that's always online, reading more than a few paragraph via iEets browser is an annoying experience of pinch zooming and scrolling that makes reading said multi-part fica pretty undesirable experience.

[darkemeralds]

I also love the fact that the AO3's download formats retain live links back to the feedback page. That's when the always-online part comes in handy: click and leave feedback, something I couldn't do with any previous combination of device and format.

It really is ideal.

[giandujakiss]

Do they? I hadn't even realized, just been shoving them on to my device as fast as I can.

(And discovering some of my very old faves that I hadn't expected to see have been uploaded to AO3 - yays!!!)

[ilthit]

:D This is one of my favourite smart features too, along with the maps (though maps should work offline too to be any use).

Did your mail sync issue get solved?

[giandujakiss]

So far, it's the only app I've seen that I really foresee wanting to use, although I'm sure I'll discover others.

I'm not certain what the mail situation is. I did the manual set up thing (turned out I couldn't keep the wireless off while setting up, but I was able to manually enter the info). It does seem to be fetching mail but not very quickly - I'm not sure what the delay time is, though, because i haven't fully tested it. We shall see...

Also trying to decide what to do about work email. I have very separate email for work and play, and I really don't want to accidentally cross the streams. I'm wondering if this means that the best thing would be to download another email app and use that one for work email, solely to make sure that it's kept separate from the personal email.

[ilthit]

If your personal app was Gmail, I'd suggest using the Gmail app for personal mail and the phone's internal email client for work email. You could check to see if your email provider has it's own Android app. I think it might also possible to create shortcuts to specific mail boxes and put them on one of your screens, but I don't know that for a fact.

[giandujakiss]

I don't use gmail, is the thing, I use AOL. (Don't laugh. I have my reasons). And AOL doesn't have an email app - it has, like, other apps but as far as I can tell they aren't email apps. So I'm just using the default email provider app on the Droid, but I downloaded a new app for email that everyone's recommending and I'll see if I can use that for work email, and then I'll be safe. Hopefully.

[ilthit]

Sounds like a plan! It is a lot easier to remember which is which when the whole visual UI is different. That new app might be faster with the mail sync, too.

[giandujakiss]

Oh hey! There's an app you can pay money for that just notifies you of incoming AOL mail. I am apparently not the only person with this problem.

The notifier for the mail app appears to be working better now - it's not quick, but it's not deadly slow. And with this app, I think I'm covered.

Now I just need to get work email working. It won't set up on its own - I need to either get my work IT department to do it, or get someone else at work who's done it successfully to set it up. (My understanding is that our IT department goes back and forth about whether it's allowed to use your own device for email, so on any given day they may refuse to help with set up.)

[ilthit]

I can imagine work email is tricky. I get my work email on Outlook only, which is fine by me (most of it's unimportant crap CC'd to everybody, and I don't take my work home) and I don't even know what server it's coming from. :D