25/30: Another Chrome extension I'm fond of

[darkemeralds]

Chrome to Phone is a one-click extension that sends the web page you're looking at on your computer to your Android device. (It requires a free app on the Android side.)

I have a single use-case for it: fanfic.

Here's how I use it:

1. Find a story on the AO3 using my nice big computer screen
2. Click the Chrome to Phone extension icon
3. Go to my phone and open the page I just sent
4. Use the Download/Mobi option to get a Kindle-compatible ebook version
5. Move the .mobi file to my Kindle app
6. Read!

(Chrome-to-Phone has a dozen other use cases--basically, any time you want to make something from your big web browser immediately available on your little mobile screen.)

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

That's a lovely trick.

I use Instapaper, available for iOS and Android, which puts the story in the cloud, and then downloads it when I next open my iPod Touch. The big plus re: Instapaper is it has an autoscroll, controlled by the phone's tilt, so only one hand needed. It's been the labor of love for a single developer, and it's just been purchased by another company, so ...

[darkemeralds]

Though I am a die-hard Android/Linux user who has never owned an iAnything, I will concede that design for iOS devices very often wins in the elegance category. That looks like a very nice app, with the extra ease-of-use feature.

For fic--especially long fic--I take the extra step of porting it to my Kindle app because I strongly prefer that book-like single-pager-per-tap, particularly when I'm reading for pleasure.