Where I've been these last few days

This Saturday for an early birthday gift (my b-day is Feb. 11) I got a Sony Reader. I'm completely in love with it and I've spent the last 3 days converting a lot of my ebooks and favorite fan fiction stories into RTF format and moving them onto the reader. It's time consuming and strangely fun.

I already had about 3 gigs of books on my computer that I never really read or used but at some point i thought it would be a good idea to download in the hopes that someday there would be some sort of ebook reader that was pratical and useful for what I want to do on it, which is store and read books.

I think i've spent more time looking for books and discovered why ebooks haven't really taken off. For example, Storm Constantine. I found her first trilogy easily enough but her Sea Dragon Heir trilogy...can't find it anywhere (for free). :( So I go to ebook stores it's like 25 dollars!!!! I'm sorry that book has been out for years I already have the hardback and I paid less than that for it too. So basically, if the electronic copies are more expensive than the paper copies I think they are going to have a hard time marketing this to the average consumer. That and they don't really have a large selection of titles or authors. But anyway!

I mainly got this Sony Reader to read fan fiction. honestly, there is a lot more of it and it's free. The main problem i've run into is the multi-chaptered story format that LJ's 10k word limit has forced upon LJ users who don't own websites. (to those that do own websites and have posted their stories in single file html or rtf formats, I LOVE YOU!!!!)

If anyone wants to send me their stories in single file RTF or html formats....I'll really appreciate it. Seriously, like forever and ever. auburnnothenna, eighth_horizon, destina, and synecdochic in case you read this I already got your stories converted and moved over. I'm kind of starting with Stargate and Supernatural fandoms though I found myself grabbing Professionals fan fiction too yesterday evening.

Basically, I've been in about 16 different fandoms I'm looking for Star Trek Voyager, X-Files, Harry Potter, SG-1, Star Wars, Anime, Fast and the Furious, Highlander, Firefly, Farscape, Sentinel, Due South (okay this would be a great time to pimp due south to me because I'd love some stories I haven't already read), Buffy/Angel, Hercules/Xena, Smallville, X-Men and anything else I'm probably missing here.

I'm not sure if anyone else on my flist has an e-reader. I gotta admit it's still rather expensive but for me it's worth it because I've always been the type of person that spent more time selecting which books to take with me on a trip than I did packing anything else.

So anyway this is why I haven't really read anything in 3 days.