Amazon has posted many of their kindle books for free. You can digitally transfer these to your kindle or kindle for iPhone. September 7th. The link is listed below. Please be kind, first posting.
Thanks! Lots of great book here, not just some garbage ones! Excellent first post OP!
Three Musketeers Frankenstein Dracula The Art of War The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights The Picture of Dorian Gray The Return of Sherlock Holmes Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Pride and Prejudice Treasure Island
lostvampire
Member
posted: Sep. 7, 2009 @ 9:39a
I found most of these free in .epub format in the Sony eBook store, through Google Classics link. What's stopping Kindle owners from installing the Sony eBook Library and downloading these and other free epub classics to their computer and then transferring them to the Kindle?
Thnaks OP. Just to clarify, these are always free on Amazon an not restricted to Sep 7. Any public domain books will be free on Amazon as well as google in epub format. Not sure if Amazon can concert epub format to Kindle format. Does nayone know of any utility that will do that?
Be aware that the OP's link is to the Kindle Bestsellers list and not all of them are free downloads. Many are, but just be careful not to make a 1-click purchase thinking they all are free.
mopsie
Happy Member
posted: Sep. 7, 2009 @ 10:10a
If you don't have a Kindle, you can download the Kindle app for free for your iPhone/iPod and wirelessly sync books that you purchase on Amazon.com. Clearly it's not as good as the actual Kindle itself, but it's better than nothing, and it's FREE!
geezlouise said: Be aware that the OP's link is to the Kindle Bestsellers list and not all of them are free downloads. Many are, but just be careful not to make a 1-click purchase thinking they all are free.
A "1-click" purchase policy for anything you are paying for should be illegal. I hate that Amazon does that with their mp3s also.
FWIW, if you did not get your email from Jeff Bezos, your are eligible for a $30 gift certificate or check if your purchased copy of '1984' or 'Animal Farm' was deleted from your Kindle (or you can get your copy replaced).
soundtechie said: Am I the only one who thinks these books are free because they're in the public domain?
I agree, which is why I don't think that this deal is hot (unless Kindle is actually your only/most convenient way to be able to read eBooks). Most any site that offers public domain eBooks (e.g., Project Gutenberg, Google books) will have these and tens of thousands more free downloadable titles in many formats. For example, PG offers epub, pdf, ascii, html, Mobipocket, Plucker, and QiOO in addition to many free downloadable audio books. No offense to the OP.
i let super trusted friends just attach to my Amazon account. then they get all the books i buy (free or otherwise, newspapers, etc). you must really trust them though. you can have a bunch of iphones and kindles off one account and simul-read a brand new book
there are a ton of books on the torrent sites that are $0.00; many legal free ones in super huge collections by letter (LIT BOOKS A). so many you'd never be able to read them 24x7x365 in your lifetime.
ZyzzyTab
New Member
posted: Sep. 8, 2009 @ 6:25a
I think that this is the best argument in favor of Kindle vs. real books, everything in the public domain is free and legal. Plus, with places like Project Gutenberg, manybooks.net and mobipocket.com a lot of great literature can be found at the perfect price point.
thegazelle
Member
posted: Sep. 8, 2009 @ 6:33a
Alot of classics, but I don't see 1984 for free...
thegazelle said: Alot of classics, but I don't see 1984 for free...
I'm not sure if your just joking, but '1984' is not in the public domain, that is why Amazon deleted it off of people's Kindles when they realized that the publisher selling it on Amazon was not authorized to do so. Ignore me if you already knew this.
bimmyjx
Senior Member
posted: Sep. 8, 2009 @ 2:48p
Anyone here able to convert pdf to kindle format with/without all the graphs, diagrams and tables coming out fine?
All you poor locked down kindle owners, try calibre. Its great for converting to and from all kinds of ebook formats, even pull in news/rss and properly format it to your device, and best of all its FREE!
Calibre works great for all ebook models and formats, and even has formatting presets that are specific to the various models. I use it all the time with my $ony prs-500, as i get content from all over in many different formats.
Dont be a slave to all these stupid ebook format wars and incompatibilities, and if its too late, at least you can now convert to formats your ebook 'allows' you to read =P
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