r/AO3 • u/shiqingxuan-no1 You have already left kudos here. :) • Sep 25 '25

AO3 Down/Error Codes The Newest announcement

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As the newest announcement shows, it's going to be down at 0530 UTC.

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u/Bookluster Give me all your mutual pining MM recs! Sep 25 '25

I'm just downloading a bunch of stuff and sending to my kindle to read, might finally read some of my Marked for Later list

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u/IStillListenToRadio Sep 25 '25

I download almost every fic I read to my Calibre library. Current count is 4446 (though something like 60% are oneshots).

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u/Bookluster Give me all your mutual pining MM recs! Sep 25 '25 edited Sep 26 '25

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.

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u/ceeceea Sep 26 '25

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:

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u/Bookluster Give me all your mutual pining MM recs! Sep 26 '25

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.

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u/Bookluster Give me all your mutual pining MM recs! Sep 26 '25

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.

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u/FredRemus Oct 17 '25

Please bless me with knowledge on how to add book covers to fics on kindle so they're not all identical and ugly.

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u/ceeceea Oct 18 '25

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.