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Ebook Library User Poll
This is a poll for anyone that's used or has an interest in using the Ebook Library Archive. I'm trying to get an idea of what I can do to improve the site and know which formats to focus on more.
Poll #2703 Ebook Library User Poll
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 68
What type of device do you read fan fiction on?
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Cybook
0 (0.0%)
Nook
1 (1.5%)
Amazon Kindle
14 (20.9%)
Ipad
3 (4.5%)
Sony PRS
18 (26.9%)
Ipod/touch
18 (26.9%)
Other will explain in comments
23 (34.3%)
What is your preferred reading format?
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RTF
21 (32.3%)
PDF
15 (23.1%)
LRF
4 (6.2%)
Mobi/PRC
14 (21.5%)
Epub
34 (52.3%)
Other I'll explain in the comments
11 (16.9%)
What fandoms do you read in the most?
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For new fics that I find on the net, I'm using .epubs now rather than .rtf because the file size is smaller (it's not yet an issue for me but it could be at some point) and because I had a few problems with special characters in .rtf (like ellipses and em-dashes).
I've actually written a ruby script that allows me to easily create epubs if I have the .xhtml(s) and I'm very happy with that (even though I still have to strip the unnecessary html from fics I download). The only bad thing about epubs is that the Sony reader has a bug and won't read single xhtml files over 260 kB or so, so if a fic is longer, it has to be split. (Calibre does this automatically if you set that option but my script doesn't, because I'd rather manually split into real chapters if the fic has them than randomly splitting at the end of a paragraph.)
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