Readlists: turn a list of sites into an ebook

[taosaur]

Originally Posted by wyndslash

i've found this app to be best used for multi-chaptered web fiction loving it so far

Originally Posted by Kaylee Skylyn

That is it's designed purpose (multi-chapter web fiction, each chapter on different page).

You may be experiencing some MobileRead groupthink there. Web fiction is about as niche as niche gets. The main purpose of Readability and this spin-off is formatting middling to long articles or blog posts for easier reading. With Readlists, the idea is to make and share lists of related articles, not necessarily to piece together something that was serial in the first place.

If you look at the front page, you'll see a few 'collected editions' of different posts from the same blog, but the majority of lists are topically linked articles or essays by various authors, with not one work of fiction.

[wyndslash]

Originally Posted by taosaur

You may be experiencing some MobileRead groupthink there. Web fiction is about as niche as niche gets. The main purpose of Readability and this spin-off is formatting middling to long articles or blog posts for easier reading. With Readlists, the idea is to make and share lists of related articles, not necessarily to piece together something that was serial in the first place.

If you look at the front page, you'll see a few 'collected editions' of different posts from the same blog, but the majority of lists are topically linked articles or essays by various authors, with not one work of fiction.

oh yes, i did see those. but readlist isn't like an rss feed, right? so i didn't quite get that concept right away...

oh well, i like using it the way i am now i'm a bigger fan of web fiction than blog posts anyway, unless it has to do with something really interesting. *browses others' readlists*

[Elfwreck]

Originally Posted by wyndslash

oh yes, i did see those. but readlist isn't like an rss feed, right? so i didn't quite get that concept right away...

I've wanted to compile sets of individual blog posts--"Anti-Kyriarchy Activism" set, "Introduction to Paganism," "Tips for fanfic writers," "recent copyright rulings," "10 rants about the evils of ebooks," and so on. I've been too busy to tinker with it, but I'm looking forward to putting together several readlists.

I only thought of chaptered fic later, in part because I knew about squeebook and had been looking for a way to collect themed sets of blog posts from multiple places, and squeebook doesn't work for that. (Or at least, not publicly. Can collect them; can't later point people to the collection; would have to send it out privately.)

[Kaylee Skylyn]

Originally Posted by taosaur

*overused - misused icon here*

The main purpose of Readability and this spin-off is formatting middling to long articles or blog posts for easier reading. With Readlists, the idea is to make and share lists of related articles, not necessarily to piece together something that was serial in the first place.

(incorrect assumptions removed...we'll just ignore for the sake of staying on topic.)

Ok so maybe I should have clarified, since I haven't really USED Readlists myself, my comment was based on SqueeBooks (I was going on the assumption they were basically performing the same function).

So SqueeBooks main purpose is to make an ebook out of multi-chapter web fiction (the summary given of Readlists sounded allot like that to me).

I could make some comments on the miss-assumptions made and incorrect comment but that will detract from the topic. Since I haven't actually had a chance to try "Readlists" I'll stop cluttering this topic now then.

[wyndslash]

i went to squeebooks and seems they are some form of publishing solutions?

[taosaur]

Originally Posted by Kaylee Skylyn

So SqueeBooks main purpose is to make an ebook out of multi-chapter web fiction (the summary given of Readlists sounded allot like that to me).

I apologize. My assumption that you were talking about the same app as the rest of us was clearly way off base.