With e-readers can you take say stories from fanfics sites, and put them on the e-reader.
E-Reader question
Yes, you may need to convert them to a format recognised by a particular reader first, but that's trivial. And there's a chance a reader can use a file without any conversion. Though Kindle is quite picky what it will work with. Epub readers can work directly with more formats, but not with all either. The best programme for format converting is Calibre and it is for free, too.
Originally Posted by Rossby41:
“How easy would it be to put fanfics a Kobo eReader?”
“How easy would it be to put fanfics a Kobo eReader?”
As long as the books don't have DRM on them it's pretty easy.
Download calibre. It's free and can be used to covert ebooks into different formats. If the ebooks you want are already in a compatible format you won't have to do any coversions. Bascially as long as they are not in mobi format you could probably put them straight onto the kobo.
Well I went and purchased an Kobo Ereader today.
Another Question, where would I put an ebook I've download, say from here on my ebook reader.
Another Question, where would I put an ebook I've download, say from here on my ebook reader.
On the Kobo Vox, what you do once you have the book on your PC is to get it into Calibre.
Then plug the Kobo into the pc and get calibre to send it to the device. Once it has apparently done that (it seems to give no visible indication that it has done anything) unplug the Kobo.
Then, using the kobo and with the library open, choose the menu button and select import. If the menu does not contain Import, you are not in the library.
The book will be then readable.
One of the things you will notice during this process is that the Kobo messages seem to think that you have the book on an SD card which it offers the option to delete. I think that what happens is that Caliber puts the book into a holding area and the Kobo Import copies into the correct place in the Kobo for ereading.
If you don't choose to delete it, that boook will be read in over and over again every time you get a new book, and in the end the hilding area will be full so you will have to delete them.
Then plug the Kobo into the pc and get calibre to send it to the device. Once it has apparently done that (it seems to give no visible indication that it has done anything) unplug the Kobo.
Then, using the kobo and with the library open, choose the menu button and select import. If the menu does not contain Import, you are not in the library.
The book will be then readable.
One of the things you will notice during this process is that the Kobo messages seem to think that you have the book on an SD card which it offers the option to delete. I think that what happens is that Caliber puts the book into a holding area and the Kobo Import copies into the correct place in the Kobo for ereading.
If you don't choose to delete it, that boook will be read in over and over again every time you get a new book, and in the end the hilding area will be full so you will have to delete them.
Originally Posted by Rossby41:
“Well I went and purchased an Kobo Ereader today.
Another Question, where would I put an ebook I've download, say from here on my ebook reader.”
“Well I went and purchased an Kobo Ereader today.
Another Question, where would I put an ebook I've download, say from here on my ebook reader.”
The wife and I both have Kobo's, buy an SD (wireless) or micro sd card (touch) to fit, about £3-£4 for an 8gb, then all you have to do is drag and drop epub files straight on the card or via Calibre if you have to convert. I never plug my Kobo into the computer, just the cards, I also use a mains/usb adaptor to charge. If the machine is working, leave best alone, I do not update at all.
I'd say it's easier to connect with USB cable than keep moving that micro SD, it can be quite fiddly. Anyway, I checked one of those Harry Potter fantasies and it says in keywords: dark, abuse, rape, not quite what I remember from the books 
As for downloading it, you go into a particular chapter and you can download it or the whole story as Word or Epub. Epub can be read by Kobo without any conversion. With a bit of luck if the reader has a web browser you may even be able to download it directly to the reader.
As for downloading it, you go into a particular chapter and you can download it or the whole story as Word or Epub. Epub can be read by Kobo without any conversion. With a bit of luck if the reader has a web browser you may even be able to download it directly to the reader.
Originally Posted by IvanIV:
“Anyway, I checked one of those Harry Potter fantasies and it says in keywords: dark, abuse, rape, not quite what I remember from the books.”
“Anyway, I checked one of those Harry Potter fantasies and it says in keywords: dark, abuse, rape, not quite what I remember from the books.”
I checked out the site too. It's nothing to do with the original books - it's basically a porn site.
