Scribding

*Note 9/3/10: Since Scribd.com instituted an access fee scam to charge people for downloading e-books, including those I have provided for free for the last ten years, I have removed my free library from their site, and no longer use or recommend using their service. My free reads may be read online or downloaded for free from Google Docs; go to my freebies and free reads page for the links. See my post about this scam here.

One of my goals for January is to copy all of my online e-books over to Scribd.com. This puts them all in one place versus scattered over six different FTP accounts, makes them available to interested Scribd readers, and creates a kind of virtual story vault for these, future and even some private work.

This is my Scribd account page, and there are a couple of things I like about it. I can flag stories with graphic content as adult, which I think is important when you store it at a public site like this. You see the cover art (as long as it's the first page of the document) next to the title and description, and you can categorize and tag your work as you see fit. Three more nice perks are that you can upload a profile pic, a link to your blog or web site, and do that "friend" thing with other Scribd users.

I am having some problems with directly uploading, as Scribd and my computer don't seem to like each other much (Scribd can't seem to convert anything I upload from my hard drive successfully.) Happily, there's an option to "slurp" (Scribd's term, not mine) the stories from the online URLs where they're presently parked, and that's worked fine.

If this works out, this will be where all my free stories go in the future. Have any of you guys got Scribd accounts? If you've got a minute, give us a link in comments, and tell us how you like the service.