rambles

So I decided I'm going to post about more than just recs on here, I'm also going to dribble on about fandom related rubbish lol.

So for my first ramble I'd like to rabbit on about PDFs. Has anyone else noticed how people rarely swap links any more? People ask for a rec, they ask for a PDF. Is it weird that this bugs me? If people are only reading fics as PDFs now, what about the online version, if you just read pdfs, how do you review or fave a fic? Ho does the author know you're liking their work? I won't lie, I don't always review, mostly because I never have a clue what to say and can be pretty socially awkward really, but if I like a fic I always fave it. I also write my own fic, one thing I look at is traffic, if I see my stories getting traffic this makes me happy, I assume others might be like this too, but surely if fics are being read as PDFs randomly traded in seedy back alleys then that traffic won't go on the fic right? You loose a lot of author/reader interaction then.

Plus I won't lie... sometimes it's nice to just rec something without having to explain you don't have the PDF lmao! I get that people have e readers and want to read fic on there, but like, don't people read on their computers any more? I would also love to know if the PDF people actually do give the authors any feed back or kudos for their stories...