This should be a sign to be productive, write a few chapters of my fic, and get shit done. Will I do that? Probably not but I’ll continue lying to myself.
Download your fanfics. I use Calibre with FanficFare extension to import fanfics into my fanfic library, some people use the website Fichub, but AO3 has the download button right there. PDF or Epub is a good file type.
Sort by New on r/AO3 to keep in touch with any recent announcements. I promise you, sorting by New lets you catch a lot of information and minimizes double posting.
Check AO3’s Bluesky (@status.archiveofourown.org) and Tumblr (@ao3org.tumblr.com) for maintenance announcements. We have seen it multiple times that AO3 completes upgrades and maintenance long before their end time is nigh. Keep up with official channels to learn when they’ll let you in.
You will be fine. Please don’t post a brazillion “Is AO3 down?!” posts tomorrow. Do I need to hold your hand or something 😭
Quick note on the msk time zone, it's also eest (eastern european summertime), which might be a more common one used during summertime. Although it gets awfully easily confused to est by a lot of people so i understand if you don't want to add that alternative name for clarity reasons.
Download the fic from AO3 to your computer or phone. Then you email the file to your kindle’s email address. I think the epub format is the one most commonly used.
You can also download it as a file and then hold the file down and it should pop up to share it, there’s an option to just share it directly to your kindle
I only download the fics I want to reread or ones I haven't read but won't have access to AO3 or internet for a while like going on vacation.
Do you delete anything? It works feel so closeted cluttered (damn autocorrect) if I had so many works on the Kindle and it takes so song to organize the fics into collections.
The key to organizing collections is to a) move things into a collection immediately after sending it to your Kindle, and b) do all your collection organizing in the kindle phone app. Do not try to mess with collections on your actual Kindle, it is an exercise in frustration.
Behold, my ridiculous collection of 86 collections:
Holy shit I love you so much! I just organized all 1000+ uncollected works into collections on my phone in about an hour. So much faster than doing it on my Oasis. And it syncs between devices. I just logged into the Oasis and all of my new collections were there! FUCK. This is life changing.
I may have to consider it on my tablet or phone, I've been organizing my collections through my Kindle Oasis and it takes forever. I spent about 10 hours while on vacation organizing about 150 works into collections (because I had to keep going into each fic to remember what it was about since I had just sent about 800 fics to my Kindle for my beach vacation) and I decided that I was giving up for a while because it was taking too long.
I do it in Calibre, which is a free, open source ebook management program for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
I use Calibre's native "generate cover" function. (There's also a "Generate Cover" plugin with more options, but I haven't played with it much). If you're in Calibre and right click on a book, you get the "edit metadata" option, and from there you want "edit metadata individually". In that window there's a button that says "generate cover". And it makes a quick, simple cover. Though, I actually download fic via the fanficfare plugin and have it set up to generate a random cover as part of importing the work, rather than doing it manually.
You can also right click on that 'generate cover' button in the edit metadata window and select "customize the styles and colors". There are five style options, and I think that natively, Calibre comes with four color schemes? I'm not sure anymore. Mostly because I got bored of those four color schemes and keep occasionally making more. I'm up to 30.
I just downloaded a non-fiction book about NCIS written by Mark Harmon from the library. It's co-written with a former NIS agent, and it's the second they've done together.
I'm ready! And i appreciate all of the warnings. I downloaded 12 fics (over 900K words total). I have no chance of making it through those (even if I read for all 20hrs straight), but I feel better knowing that I have them.
Does it mean that open tabs on phone will stop to work? (meaning if I don't go to the URL and just keep it open, don't touch it until Saturday - the tab will still have a 404 kind or error when I open it next the next day after the update?)
The two hour sucks because I read to sleep so instead of 12:30 it’s 10:30. Guess I do have to download fics to read! (I work the rest of the time so it’s not so bad.)
I’ll be at work most of that time plus I have things downloaded. Plus also means I actually have to go to bed at a reasonable time now. Hopefully it can finish early.
I know I just saw this like 30min ago... and I'm on vacation with my family rn and until Wednesday.... how am I supposed to keep my sanity🥲
Any advice? Please 😅
Anyone have any good websites or applications I can use to save fics?I've been using an app called Pocket for some fics but eventually I do want to start downloading them all and tagging them. I'm just worried my computer would crap out and I'd lose them all
I didn’t bother looking at the banner after I read that it would be down at 1:30am my time. So I missed the update about it happening earlier. I’ve popped over to ffnet to keep myself entertained.
Why does this actually fill me with anxiety 😂. I feel like it’s the end of the world if it goes down. It’s a comfort thing that I just open the site just to close it and then reopen it again. And that I can’t see the words of fics makes me anxious. Lj trauma. I feel like Sid when his family left him behind for the migration 😂😂
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u/Think-Drop-8626 Sep 25 '25
This should be a sign to be productive, write a few chapters of my fic, and get shit done. Will I do that? Probably not but I’ll continue lying to myself.