No Ordinary Family and SPN Big Bang
May. 6th, 2011 07:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amalthiaI think it's safe to say one of my favorite new TV shows that came out this year was No Ordinary Family. I loved the dialogue, the powers each character has, and it had some very funny moments. I also loved all the other side characters and am looking forward to next season. I'm not sure this show is going to be a fandom hit because there are no real slash pairings.
And in other news, SPN Big Bang summaries are up for artists to claim. I was quite surprised that there are 244 stories for this year's big bang. I think I forget that while I may have moved on a bit not everyone else did!
This year I'm still offering to create ebook versions for any SPN Big Bang author who would like an ebook version of their story to share.
With my busy summer school workload I'm not sure I'll have time to read much of any of this year's SPN Big Bang stories. I think I'm going to limit myself to authors that post their fic to the A03 or share their stories in a single file HTML/Word Document. Basically, a single file document that is not PDF.
If authors are sharing PDFs thinking that's what people with Kindles and Nooks want then I think it's because they aren't reading PDFS on these devices so they don't see what a 8x11 sized PDF looks like on a 4x6 screen. Trust me, we don't want PDFS. We want HTML or mobi/epub. Word docs work too. They at least convert to epub and mobi more cleanly than PDF and with less formatting errors.
Don't get me wrong there is an audience for PDFs, it's just not the same audience that's reading on portable devices. (or at least not people who've been reading on portable devices long enough to see that PDFS suck ass)
For the love of god and for the love of those who are swamped with school work/working full time, please provide easier to access to your fics.
Just the thought of another year of over 200 stories longer than 20k words being posted only on LJ makes me want to cry. Some people are good at it. They can get 20k words posted in 2 parts, some need 20 LJ posts to share 20k words.
For the sake of my sanity and stress levels I think I'm going to have to stick authors that post at A03/other archive or offer an alternate single file download. Because I don't think this email will have an effect on how people decide to post their fics.
And in other news, SPN Big Bang summaries are up for artists to claim. I was quite surprised that there are 244 stories for this year's big bang. I think I forget that while I may have moved on a bit not everyone else did!
This year I'm still offering to create ebook versions for any SPN Big Bang author who would like an ebook version of their story to share.
With my busy summer school workload I'm not sure I'll have time to read much of any of this year's SPN Big Bang stories. I think I'm going to limit myself to authors that post their fic to the A03 or share their stories in a single file HTML/Word Document. Basically, a single file document that is not PDF.
If authors are sharing PDFs thinking that's what people with Kindles and Nooks want then I think it's because they aren't reading PDFS on these devices so they don't see what a 8x11 sized PDF looks like on a 4x6 screen. Trust me, we don't want PDFS. We want HTML or mobi/epub. Word docs work too. They at least convert to epub and mobi more cleanly than PDF and with less formatting errors.
Don't get me wrong there is an audience for PDFs, it's just not the same audience that's reading on portable devices. (or at least not people who've been reading on portable devices long enough to see that PDFS suck ass)
For the love of god and for the love of those who are swamped with school work/working full time, please provide easier to access to your fics.
Just the thought of another year of over 200 stories longer than 20k words being posted only on LJ makes me want to cry. Some people are good at it. They can get 20k words posted in 2 parts, some need 20 LJ posts to share 20k words.
For the sake of my sanity and stress levels I think I'm going to have to stick authors that post at A03/other archive or offer an alternate single file download. Because I don't think this email will have an effect on how people decide to post their fics.
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Date: 2011-05-09 01:51 am (UTC)Ease is really, really important to me. Also, how a story is presented does become an accessibility issue for a lot of people.