In the previous post regarding the Kindle 3, I mentioned that I get a LOT of free reading material. Below I’ve outlined many of the places I find free books. This is in no way complete list…but do read on!
The first place to look is simply on Amazon, the service provider looking to sell you everything possible, sort of the online version of WalMart, only without the greeter at the door. A simple search for “Free kindle books” currently reveals 97,569 results. That’s a good start…They also offer games, magazine subscriptions, and utilities for the Kindle, one of them being “Notepad“, a mighty fine attempt at a word processor for the Kindle, the method I use to write posts on my Kindle.
Another place to look is freekindlebooks.org. They offer a measly 29,000 listings.
They also refer to Project Gutenberg, “the first producer of free ebooks” and a fabulous source for most classics as well as most everything out of print. Here is their latest Top 10 Downloads (complete with links!) for May 29, 2012:
Top 10 EBooks yesterday
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1512)
- Struwwelpeter: Merry Stories and Funny Pictures by Heinrich Hoffmann (981)
- The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana by Vatsyayana (764)
- Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón (714)
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (641)
- How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict (639)
- Grimm’s Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm (572)
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (568)
- Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (538)
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (460)
Also from freekindlebooks.org is The Magic Catalog of Project Gutenberg E-Books:
Click Here to Download The Magic Catalog of Project Gutenberg E-Books (MOBI Edition)
If you don’t have a Kindle but some other E-Book Reader or ADE you may prefer to get the EPUB Version:
Click Here to Download The Magic Catalog of Project Gutenberg E-Books (EPUB Edition)
The above files are called “magic” because they offer in-line links to the files listed in them – simply open the file on your Kindle, browse to a title you want to read, select it with your directional pad, and assuming you have your WiFi on, you start downloading the book directly to your Kindle! This file should be on every Kindle ever shipped, but sadly, is not.
Another option for reading is forums and websites, however a little more work is involved in getting them to the Kindle. Two ways I use are Rekindle It and Instapaper. Both offer offline reading of websites through your Kindle teamed up with your WiFi service, and offer free utilities, and if you want a regular feed automatically sent, they offer subscription services as well. From time to time, I rekindled floridahillbilly.com and send it to my Kindle….some of my articles are actually readable!
There are many other places for free books for the Kindle, and you should never run out of things to read. Do a simple “free kindle books” search and you should find more than you could possibly ever read in a lifetime.
It’s up to you to choose 🙂
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Here’s a great web site to follow: http://preputilityvehicle.blogspot.com/
From time to time, eBook authors will make their books free for a day as a promotional tool. This site keeps an eye on these deals, and points out anything that might be useful for a prepper or homesteader.
I’ve gotten a ton of great books in the past week alone! You have to be quick, though, as many of the deals are only for 24 hrs.
Enjoy!
Wow! Nice…I just subscribed!
Thanks much!
I thought it’d be right up your alley! We seem to have a lot of common interests :-).
You and I and a bunch of others, it seems. 🙂