And what is your favorite format? For me its never simple: Mostly on my android phone using: Cool Reader - ugly but will read a standard epub aloud Kindle App - far too many books locked behind the Amazon wall Barnes & Noble App - clean, easy, imports epubs I prefer epub for general reading, PDF for picture books, magazines, manuals And for comics I use perfect reader for cbz,cbr formats On my very old iPad mini almost always apples books and epubs And on my Windows tablet ( because I couldn't afford a new android tablet and this one was CHEAP) Kindle app, perfect reader, sublime text, and foxit PDF reader And yes there are a half a dozen very old actual Kindles running around the house. I read on two of them. My version do star Trek PADDs. Yeah I know I'm complicated ...and I have an idea..... But I need some answers. What apps do you like ? Where do you read Ebooks the most? What features would you like to see in an Ereader that you currently don't have? And even if you think you've guessed right, *just* another Ereader is NOT where I'm going with this. Remember my goal is to help you write the books AND sell more of them. Stay with me folks.

So everything I work on and add ties to everything else.... The new Storydb in narrativecrafter got tied to genre's and story structure and discovered some issues there with chapter lengths and nonfiction creation. So default chapter lengths are now set by story structure unless the genre overrides it. The author can override both! Nonfiction now has better sourcing of knowledge and bases its chapter lengths by lesson. Certain subgenres also an change chapter lengths. When I started all of this the basis was Jason's 3 act 40 chapter structure. We've come a long way in the last two years! BookWeaver/BookCrafter got the biggest share of the updates to quality, canon, consistency and adherence to genre and story structure rules. More to come!

12:19AM right now and have to be in Taylorsville, KY this morning by 6:30AM to set for another craft show with my wonderful and awesome wife. While she was doing the last minute (always) creating and packing I did a thing.... I've been having issues with each of the AI's know different things because I work on different things or different pieces of the same thing and they get confused. For instance Gemini still thinks WCP only has the 33 original genres. Claude has missing skills. Manus has the pieces of 125 different projects and discussions, Chatgpt has, well very little... You can export your data from Claude and Chatgpt. Gemini requires using Google Takeout and is not getting everything. Manus is well. Manus.. he is his own beast. By moving all of my chats to a project I can open the project and send an instruction to zip up all chats with their attachments as individual .zip folders and download locally. I found a deepseek export plugin but it has to run on each chat.. working on getting claude to automate this. I then pulled all of these into a github report separated by project and area of interest and got this down to 16 channels. These will be further distilled to memories. WHY?? In this process I found over 60 projects I would like to review to make sure I pulled what I needed from them, I found really early book projects and even a couple of pretty cool games I wrote (tabletop - not online) that I had completely forgotten about. UGH. But now its searchable and Claude knows all the rest of the pieces that I was missing or forgotten. Tomorrow I'll start adding my notebooks. and have my second brain. and hiding in all of this was some things WCP was supposed to have added long ago. AND... I finished another Hollow Bean Short Story. "In a world where Mythical Entities walk the Earth if enough people believe in them, what happens when they only have one believer left?" Now for my next trick....

This is an interesting take on an over discussed topic. The transcript argues that traditional publishing has a double standard around AI: industry insiders may use AI in their own writing while discouraging authors from doing the same. It challenges the idea that AI-assisted writing is inherently illegitimate. Key points: - Authorship is about creative authority, not generating every word. Authors have long used editors, researchers, ghostwriters, and collaborators without losing authorship. - AI training is not the same as piracy. Courts distinguish between building libraries from pirated books and using lawfully acquired books for transformative fair use. Learning from existing works is also how human writers develop. - AI can support legitimate authorship, including for people with disabilities or those facing barriers to polished prose. Wealthy authors have long used human assistance; AI democratizes access to similar help. - Institutional definitions of authorship are problematic. Redefining authorship to require a certain amount of human-generated text gives publishers, agents, and organizations power to police creative processes. - Secrecy and compliance distort behavior. Many authors hide AI use due to backlash, while conscientious beginners may avoid AI unnecessarily. Publishers and agents may use AI themselves while enforcing strict bans on authors. - Distinguish creative authority from contractual authority. Publishers can set submission rules, but those rules should not define legitimate authorship universally. Authors should set their own ethical standards. - Copyright and authorship are separate. The U.S. Copyright Office distinguishes human-authored expression from AI-generated content, which creates practical problems for collaborative works, but copyright frameworks should not define who qualifies as an author. - Authors should retain creative control, use AI only when it serves the project, investigate contract clauses, and avoid letting fear of judgment hinder their development.

Last Day to get WCP EVERYTHING for $22 a month / $200/Year Start your 14 day trial at WordCrafter.pro and check it out and lock in the current rate. I'm happy to give help as needed. ****** More new stuff rolling out shortly built i the last few days all built but not tested and once tested will be included into WCP. More to come but I was binging and do need to slow down. These came from my work in two other tools and just needed to get out, there;s a much longer list. BookCrafter, BookWeaver, the StoryDB in Narrativecrafter, genres, tropes, prose quality ALL have been updated. Currently 52 books have been created with BookWeaver.pro (Separate App--equivalent to Bookcrafter in WCP). New skills - Adaptation Room: turns a novel into a screenplay or stage play, chapter by chapter, against a page or runtime budget. Optional shot lists and blocking. - Hook Forge: mines hooks from the manuscript, writes new ones, builds teasers, fits hooks to each channel, and repairs weak ones. Keeps a Hook Bank. - Revision Planner: turns every source of feedback into one ordered, tracked revision plan with work orders. - LEXA Naming Studio: names checked against real US birth records by birth decade, cast collision checks, invented-language names, pen names, and a Name Registry. Replaces the old banned-names list with tiered flags; rolling that out to the seven skills that carry the old list is still your call. - Author Brand Profile: one saved brand profile per pen name, with a tool that checks copy against it. Existing skills upgraded - Story Development Room: Premise Review with an Engine Test for length fit, and motifs planned as arcs. - Prose Doctor: every edit can be kept or rejected individually, with a protect list and Word tracked-changes export. Also fixes your two incomplete installed copies. - Book Marketing Team: reads the brand profile, and turns tropes into KDP keywords, categories, and ad angles. - Hook Forge v1.1: uses the brand profile. - Book Merch Team: A+ Content planning and special editions (edges, foil, endpapers, costing). -