MLP fiction archive with nifty Kindle features

If you're anything like me, when you see a story (completed or not) that looks interesting but is incredibly long, you stick it in your "Read it Later" queue, eventually download it for your e-reader when you've got time to kill, read it, and are either impressed by its plot and character arcs and worldbuilding, or disappointed because the pacing is glacial and a ten thousand word chapter can be nothing more than, "Cool train, innit?" (I AM NOT MAKING THAT UP OR EXAGGERATING.) But this can be a slight problem if, also like me, your e-reader is a Kindle. The ebook download format here on Fimfiction is epub, while Kindles take mobi and can't read epubs. I was doing just fine, if slowly, with online epub-to-mobi converters, until I found FiMFetch.

FiMFetch is another archive for MLP fiction; it collects stories from not only Fimfiction, but also FanFiction.net and Archive of Our Own. But you're reading this on Fimfiction, so let's talk about Fimfiction stories. The page for each story is nearly identical to Fimfiction's, with all the important info: description, tags, rating, chapters, that sort of thing. It also offers multiple download format options, and one of those options? Mobi files. Sweet. (In fact, the developer said that part of the reason they made the site was to be able to download mobis easily.) Even better, when the story comes from Fimfiction, the URL format for FiMFetch is exactly the same as Fimfiction's. Getting to a story's FiMFetch page from here is as easy as replacing "fimfiction.net" with "fimfetch.net".

But wait, there's more! If the story is part of a series, it displays all the other stories in a list, complete with the current story highlighted. If the story has cover art, that art is used for the cover in the Kindle itself. The mobi file has a properly-formatted cover and a title page (with long description and tag info). Inline images are automatically downloaded and included in the mobi. And lots of search features I haven't touched but look impressive.

If you're using a Kindle and like reading horse words on it, give it a shot. If not, why'd you read this far?

In other news, I've officially been on Fimfiction a year.

Comments

[QueenMoriarty]

If you're using a Kindle and like reading horse words on it, give it a shot. If not, why'd you read this far?

In answer to the second part, I'm addicted to reading.

[Fenton]

If you're anything like me, when you see a story (completed or not) that looks interesting but is incredibly long, you stick it in your "Read it Later" queue, eventually download it for your e-reader when you've got time to kill, read it, and are impressed by its plot and character arcs and worldbuilding

That's exactly what happened for me with your story the other side of the horizon.

And thank you for the link, I'm about to get a reader myself for Christmas and now I know that even if it can't read epub, I would still be able to enjoy horse words on it.

Oh and Happy Anniversary!

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[PresentPerfect]

Will have to remember this if I'm ever relegated to using my Kindle again.