I am gonna have to work on exercising some restraint, I see. Why have't I gotten it ages ago???

The way to exercise restraint is to load Calibre on your laptop and fill the Kindle up with free books from Project Gutenberg. (And fic from AO3!)

And if you're willing to go into grey areas, Gutenberg Australia has books from a later date range than American Gutenberg. ManyBooks has, well, many books as well.

I heard about Calibre and AO3 and fic. Is there a step-by-step how-to guide>? Because I am too lazy to try to work it out myself.

I bought the third Song of Ice and Fire books just this morning because I have the paperback but that sucker is THICK and I've been stuck in the middle of that book for ages. Having it so easily accessible may be the way to finally get me to finish it...

Load Calibre on your computer.

Go to AO3 and download fic in MOBI format.

Drag fic file to Calibre, where Calibre might get the author name and title confused.

This next step kind of depends on the software and the Kindle--it worked with my old Kindle, but not the Kindle Fire. Plug the Kindle into the laptop. Calibre will recognize it and you should be able to click a button that says "save to device" or something like that, and the book (or fic) will be saved to the Kindle.

The other option is to use Amazon's email process, but I don't really know how that works, haven't tried to do it. Someone else can certainly advise, I think.

The big issue is that everything you want to put on the Kindle must be in MOBI format, and not everything comes that way. But Calibre can convert damn near everything into MOBI, including .doc, .txt, and .html files.

I need to rework my whole collection. I love Calibre so much, because it makes this easy. But someone gave me a bunch of paper books over the summer and I am working my way through them.

Although I felt all first-world problemy about them. Oh, this book is so HEAVY! I have to HOLD THE PAGES OPEN! Woe! Seriously, my Nook is the best thing in the world.

I have the entire Lord of the Rings on my Nook. I feel competent to outlast a nuclear holocaust now. Now I need a solar powered method to recharge the Nook.

I actually recommend e-mailing everything to your Amazon Kindle address because it will save it in the Archives for you to download at will. But use Calibre to clean up the author and title first.

Look into your library system, too. Both the Nashville and New York public libraries have pretty large Kindle book selections, which are stupid-easy to get on your kindle (check out from library. Push large button that says "Get for Kindle". Push new large button that says "Send to Kindle". Enjoy.) I imagine many library systems are the same. I'm reading Size 12 and Ready To Rock from the library right now AIFG. Though I find the holes in library eBook collections to be mind-boggling: why have the first book in the Kane Chronicles series, but not the second or third, libraries?

Though I find the holes in library eBook collections to be mind-boggling: why have the first book in the Kane Chronicles series, but not the second or third, libraries?

Oh, my library can top that - how about having the first, third, fourth and fifth books in the Kate Daniels series, but not the second? At least they do have a paperback copy of it in the actual physical library.

Those holes are the reason I have volume 10 and only volume 10 of Transmetropolitan. It was the one that the ACPL didn't have.