Sunday, August 3, 2014

My favorite Reading Sites

So having written up a couple of review posts now (I have one scheduled for Wednesday, and I'll try to do another for next Saturday, so that we've got a regular schedule), I realized I should explain where I go to get all these things.

My top two, are of course Amazon and Goodreads. But I also have used Fiction Press and Archive of Our Own (aka AO3) to download free fic for my kindle over the last few years. So here's a rundown of each of the sites I have or will have listed with possible links, and what you might find or run into there. If you ever find you can't get into a site for any reason, let me know. I'd rather provide multiple links, then have people go without a story they might enjoy.

The big four:

  • Amazon.com - Obviously the biggest of the group, though I will very rarely link to it here unless I'm talking about a specific book that's currently on sale that people might enjoy. You can find many free or cheap books here, but I will make a much more detailed post about that in the future.
  • Goodreads - This will probably be the site I link to most. I keep track of all my reading and books here, and if you want to buy or find a story, this is the first site I would recommend going to, as they provide links not only to Amazon, but many other booksellers, as well as links to the online page if the story is posted free. If you don't have an account at this site, I highly recommend it. It's just a great community.
  • Archive of Our Own - Aka AO3. This is a fan-based fanfiction website, though there is some original fic here, usually fairy tales or RPF (real person fic). The benefit of this site is that they have the built-in capability to download the entire story in several formats: Mobi (Kindle format), EPub, PDF, and HTML. No need to transfer it anywhere to get it working on your device. Simply download it to your device and you're ready to go.
  • Fiction Press - The non-fanfic sister site to Fan Fiction.net. This has been running a few years less than FF.net, but that's still a longer time than almost any other fiction site on the web, and the wealth of stories is immense. To download from this, you'll need a special program called the Fan Fiction Downloader (which I will go into in more detail in another post).
Other possible sites:
  • Livejournal/Dreamwidth - Aka LJ and DW. These are journalling sites, though they are less used now than they once were. Occasionally, posts will be locked, so these stand a higher chance of being inaccessable, but if I do link there, I will try to post an alternate link just in case.
  • Adult Fan Fiction - One of the few remaining responses to FF.net's purge of adult material. I probably won't link here much, but occasionally this is the only link there is. You will have to pass an age restriction page, but you should be able to get through, regardless.
  • Tumblr - I haven't actually found any that I will need to link to here. Yet. But I won't rule it out, either, as it has become the new alternative to LJ/DW above.
  • Author Personal Websites - Some authors do still host their own sites, and when there is no other link, I will post a link to that, though unless it's a story that is free online, I'm more inclined to post a link to the Goodreads page. I may link to the Author's website when it comes to their profile, though.
There are probably others I've missed, and I will likely add to this list when I think of them.

What about you? Where do you find your slash stories most?

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