across time and space

Spent a lot of time on Fanlore in the last couple of weeks because of IFD, trying to get links archived in any kind of systematic fashion. Starting with due South fanfics for now (soooo many Crack Van recs) and even there, in a fandom that you'd think would be more online than some others, there are dead links and deleted journals and stories that were only ever printed in a zine. And sure some of those probably vanished with intention -- an author goes pro, removes all fannish works from the internet, or maybe gets harassment over something they wrote, or just lose interest in fandom and don't want to maintain a site anymore. So I do occasionally feel like... archiving something without asking the person first is a bit iffy. We can't know, really... What sorts of things get saved because they're valuable and good, and what sorts of things just languish in an attic somewhere until they're discovered and become valuable due to surviving for so long?

Also, splurged and bought myself a Kobo e-reader last week. (Which I can actually use now, after an extremely fraught couple of days where I was fairly sure I'd gotten a defective on; it miraculously started working again just as I was heading out to take it back to the store). Currently trying to tweak Calibre and FanFicFare to my liking, as well as going through my backup drives trying to find ebooks I already have that I can add in. This is my first e-ink device, and it kind of feels... like, weirdly magical? Here's this thing that looks like paper and weighs almost nothing and but can store more books than you'll probably ever read in your lifetime. Don't like the font? Nothing stops you from changing it to Comic Sans or Papyrus or making it super huge. Oh and also it's made out of teeny tiny capsules floating in oil. Magic!

Currently reading "An Unseen Attraction" by KJ Charles, because I remember someone reccing it years ago -- my library only had an ebook copy this entire time so I couldn't read it until now \o/ I'm not very far in (chapter 2) but I'm a sucker for this time period, as well as for shifting POV, so I feel like I will enjoy it.