eBook Downloading Spree

[dreiser]

So I got my birthday present a week early from my family. A Kindle 3G which I wanted solely for the purpose of getting cheap eBooks to use for research for my various writing projects. I've had a story in the works for a few years now and recently came up with another one I really really really like a lot and involves a lot of heavy research.

I'm weirdly confident if I played my cards right and got lucky I could have a real chance of being legit published with these books and they might even turn out to be popular. They'd both be in the young adult category. That's only if I actually get off my butt and start writing them. Anyway. I downloaded forty five eBooks today just to research the new book idea I have. I spent a total of thirty six dollars which is crazy cheap. But seriously, if anyone got into my Kindle and looked at them all they'd probably give me a long side eye. lol. I mean, the category title is Myths/Fairy Tales/Folklore/Religions.

Some titles? Mysteria: History of the Secret Doctrines and Mystic Rites of Ancient Religions; Demonicial Possession, Dreams, Ghosts, Lucky & Unlucky Days, Horoscopes, Prognostications, Transformations & the Worship of Animals In Egyptian Majick; Field Guide to the Little People; Old French Fairy Tales...

You get the idea. Here's the thing, I wanted to research ancient religious rituals and practices but you wouldn't believe how hard it is to find books for that. You can find the religious stories themselves and myths but finding stuff that isn't like... super expensive about rituals and priests, priestesses, oracles, and seers is pretty hard. I also kept finding stuff on wiccans and paganism about me learning to embrace my inner goddess and no, I just want to know what sort of rituals you do. Not read a bunch about how I'm some sort of wood nymph.

Whatever though. I'm super pleased with all the spiffy research material I've gathered. Even if it makes me look like a theology student.

Comments

[ein-myria.livejournal.com]

If you want ancient religious rituals and practices try the Anthropology section (spirit mediums and magic are all the rage), classicists', medievalists' section (how far do you want to go back? and for which region?). Try for the structural functionalist ones for ease of read.

Congratulations on your new kindle, I'm sure you'll be sideloading things on that kindle soon; I'll share these resources with you that I found while floundering with my own digital reader.

Archives where epub formats are available for fanfics (other formats in brackets):
Archive Of Our Own (http://archiveofourown.org/) (multi-genre archive project supported on donations by members of OTW (http://transformativeworks.org/)) (mobi, pdf, html)
Ebook library: fan fiction on the run (http://amalthia.mediawood.net/ebooks/index.php) (multi genre archive maintained by amalthia) (rtf, lrf, mobi)
Passion and Perfection: E-books (http://www.ralst.com/Ebooks.html) by (femslash specific, maintained by ralst) (pdb, mobi)
Sans Paper (http://www.broodingdetective.com/sanspaper/authorlist.html) (femslash specific, maintained by Alex(?)) (mobi, pdb)

Useful ebook links
Ebook formatting tutorial (http://amalthia.mediawood.net/tutorials/ebooks/index.html) by amalthia
FanFictionDownloader (http://www.fanfictiondownloader.net/index.php) (kudos to beatrice_otter)
Downloads ff.net, squidge, and fanficauthors.net fics into ePub, PDF, RTF, TXT, Mobi, LIT, LRF, and other formats.
MobileRead Forums (http://www.mobileread.com/) - the central hive for all things ebooks, across several devices, formats, and languages.

[dreiser.livejournal.com]

Thanks for all the links! I'll look into the anthropology section for some more stuff. I found DownloadStory which is basically the same as FanfictionDownloader but for Macs. Very useful stuff.

[oneiric22.livejournal.com]

Forty five ebooks? Jeebus. I think I have half that number on mine, and I've had it since 2008. :D

[dreiser.livejournal.com]

You know I get obsessive about things. lol.