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starrigger · 03-07-2010, 02:48 PM

Thanks for the reminder! I'm in there as a participating author, but I haven't blogged about it yet.

Here's a use of ebooks that I haven't seen mentioned anywhere: reading the candidates for awards. This is currently Final Ballot season for the Nebula Awards for science fiction and fantasy, and I've loaded my Sony and my Axim with all the finalists (or at least those that are available to SFWA members for download, which is most of them). Some I had to massage into epub format; others I just left as PDFs. I used Calibre to tag them all: "Nebula 2010 Novella," etc., for easy sorting on the Sony. This gives me my best shot yet at actually reading (most) of the works before the ballot deadline.

Okay, so the Nebula candidates aren't all available for free download to the general public, but you get the idea. Voters for the Hugo and others could try this method, too.

03-07-2010, 02:48 PM	#10
starrigger Jeffrey A. Carver Posts: 1,355 Karma: 1107383 Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Massachusetts, USA Device: Lenovo Yoga Tab Plus, Droid phone, Nook HD+	Thanks for the reminder! I'm in there as a participating author, but I haven't blogged about it yet. Here's a use of ebooks that I haven't seen mentioned anywhere: reading the candidates for awards. This is currently Final Ballot season for the Nebula Awards for science fiction and fantasy, and I've loaded my Sony and my Axim with all the finalists (or at least those that are available to SFWA members for download, which is most of them). Some I had to massage into epub format; others I just left as PDFs. I used Calibre to tag them all: "Nebula 2010 Novella," etc., for easy sorting on the Sony. This gives me my best shot yet at actually reading (most) of the works before the ballot deadline. Okay, so the Nebula candidates aren't all available for free download to the general public, but you get the idea. Voters for the Hugo and others could try this method, too.