Kindle Brain Dump for July 29th

Stuff on my Kindle (be prepared for incredibly long list):

“A Small Room in Koboldtown” by Michael Swanwick
Hugo 2008 nominee. Nice conversion from the PDF.
“After the Coup” by John Scalzi
Mobi direct from Tor.com’s stories page. A little spaced out but very readable.
“After the Siege” by Cory Doctorow.
You know Cory. I owe him a buy of his anthology; I really enjoyed this stuff. The Feedbooks Download Guide helped me find this and download on my Kindle, with nary a stop to USB or email over Whispernet.
Agent to the Stars, first edition, by John Scalzi.
He let this out into the wild himself quite a whiles back. I just sent the entire HTML over to the Kindle conversion machine. The links still work, too. Nicely output for the most part.
All Seated on the Ground by Connie Willis.
Hugo 2008 nominee. I already bought the book version from Subterranean Press. I must say that Asimov’s managed to employ DRM on an HTML page—it’s so broken that I had to strip it down before it could convert sanely. But hey; the DRM was brilliant.
Amazon Daily blog subscription
Mostly just for kicks and to see how a subscription would work—for free. I can visit the links over the Basic Web browser. Good enough for me. Has images too.

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