I admit it can take a while for the files to be added to Calibre, and then converted, and then saved in MOBI format, and then copied to the Blackberry. But while I'm waiting, I'm probably going ahead and reading some of it, whether off the Blackberry itself (not attached until the final stage of the process) or in the files I'm working on -- or else I'm doing it in front of the TV and knitting while processes are running. (There was one day where I had read a single story by an author and made a special point of going back to her archive page, downloading everything, setting up pretty much all of it for converting and uploading in batch, and then spent the waiting period reading most of the shorter stories and eliminating them from the set when I reached the next step of the process.)
Definitely a difference in that the Blackberry isn't the final archive, but I've been saving fic to the thumb drive "for later" and moving the read stories to a different folder for archiving as a matter of habit. I'm willing to go through the runaround if it means these things actually get read -- and, an added benefit, the book-buying budget has been slashed since I'd already gotten into the Kindle habit and suddenly all the profic I haven't gotten around to yet is competing with the fanfic backlog.
I think in my last-but-one batch I loaded far too much fic -- basically just went through the downloads folder and grabbed everything I knew for sure was Sherlock (in any incarnation) that wasn't already loaded -- so there's a certain added pressure to getting as much as possible read and then deleted from my media card, because MobiPocket now takes for-freakin'-ever to load up.
But, yeah, this is part of why I love it when a fic is an AO3 link rather than LJ. I can download directly from AO3 to my ebooks folder without going through all the netbook processing. (Been making a special point of bookmarking a lot of the fics I've been finding there but not loading them to the BB yet, because of the already-crammed library.)
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Definitely a difference in that the Blackberry isn't the final archive, but I've been saving fic to the thumb drive "for later" and moving the read stories to a different folder for archiving as a matter of habit. I'm willing to go through the runaround if it means these things actually get read -- and, an added benefit, the book-buying budget has been slashed since I'd already gotten into the Kindle habit and suddenly all the profic I haven't gotten around to yet is competing with the fanfic backlog.
I think in my last-but-one batch I loaded far too much fic -- basically just went through the downloads folder and grabbed everything I knew for sure was Sherlock (in any incarnation) that wasn't already loaded -- so there's a certain added pressure to getting as much as possible read and then deleted from my media card, because MobiPocket now takes for-freakin'-ever to load up.
But, yeah, this is part of why I love it when a fic is an AO3 link rather than LJ. I can download directly from AO3 to my ebooks folder without going through all the netbook processing. (Been making a special point of bookmarking a lot of the fics I've been finding there but not loading them to the BB yet, because of the already-crammed library.)