Thanks OP! This seems interesting enough. I like the classic books collection that was compiled. Amazon is a company in great standing with me, so will definitely give this a try.
most of the good books cost money not free........ I linked to the free books and searched science then astronomy showing 1,378 titles none of which are free...........if u dig I'm sure you could find something else thats free worth reading though, but I prefer the library to buying books....
nosatalian
Senior Member
posted: Nov. 11, 2009 @ 1:44a
Awesome, can't wait until someone starts combining this with screen capture and OCR so we can pirate books as easily as we pirate music and movies
dpeer01 said: Register your Kindle - that's how Amazon matches the content to the player. It should register automatically when you login the first time after you install it. So you have to install it first, provide your login info, then you can start grabbing the free eBooks.
this is great, thanks op. the free book selection kind of sucks, but the classics are great. Just fyi, there are more free classics available than in that first list with the link you provided. For example, when you click on a free classic book, scroll down and you will see "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought" which has more books that are free.
what kills me is that I have been buying softcover books of the classics I just downloaded for my own personal library
shingletingle said: Who in the world actually reads books at a computer? Nobody is my guess.wrong, I do. I've probably read 11 or so in the past few years.
wmn9
Member
posted: Nov. 11, 2009 @ 10:24a
Love it! Using it on my tablet pc.. better than a kindle.
Does getting the free reader give them the right to inbound into your PC to delete books like they do on the hardware kindle? NO KINDLE if you like privacy!
shingletingle said: Who in the world actually reads books at a computer? Nobody is my guess.
Count me as one - I have read hundreds from Project Gutenberg
SteveNYC
Broke Member
posted: Nov. 11, 2009 @ 1:04p
shingletingle said: Who in the world actually reads books at a computer? Nobody is my guess.
Actually, I just finished reading Dan Brown's latest novel, "The Lost Symbol" last night on my Dell Mini 9 netbook using the Barnes and Noble ebook Reader software and it was great. Reading in bed with the screen brightness at its lowest and it was great. I prefer reading on a Kindle personally, and the iPhone readers for both Amazon and Barnes and Noble are great as well. But sometimes even a lowly little netbook works wonders. I read for several hours at each sitting. No eye strain at all.
shingletingle said: Who in the world actually reads books at a computer? Nobody is my guess. that's offensive to all our fellow computer addictive fwers. I haven't read a paper book for the last five years.
Oops, I downloaded several with the kindle for PC, but my Calibre can't open them. I need to find some software that can convert these to ePub for my Sony. BTW, thanks for the link to project gutenberg, bookmarked.
Xriderbc
Senior Member
posted: Nov. 11, 2009 @ 2:31p
I find a laptop screen wears on my eyes. Any Kindle owners (v2) in here? Is the screen as close to "paper reading" as they claim? How about Sony's competitor reader? Any owners of that have an opinion? An advantage I see of the Kindle is being able to get newly released books immediately. The library can be sketchy on some titles, or have long wait lists.
Sprintx said: Thanks! I would like to find a large selection like this in audio books to listen to. Anyone know of any?
Paid or Free? For paid site, Audible.com got the biggest selections.
For free ones, try your local library website. It may be powered by Overdrive which gives you free download of many audiobooks. You can also borrow the audio CDs from the library and rip them yourself. podiobooks.com has some interesting free books, but they are not mainstream.
Free audio books are also available via Librivox.org ; they have a sizable collection, including many classics, and it's a LIVE HUMAN voice, which I think is much better than machine generated artificial voice. http://librivox.org/
Xriderbc said: I find a laptop screen wears on my eyes. Any Kindle owners (v2) in here? Is the screen as close to "paper reading" as they claim? How about Sony's competitor reader? Any owners of that have an opinion? An advantage I see of the Kindle is being able to get newly released books immediately. The library can be sketchy on some titles, or have long wait lists.
I have a Kindle 2 and I have grown accustomed to it. I actually prefer it in some ways to reading a paper book - I feel like I read slightly faster without having to physically flip the pages; I also don't like to bend my books so I end up tilting them a bit to read. I also like not having to bring several books on a long trip - I just take the Kindle. My main complaint is the lack of ability to share a book easily (I have to lend the entire Kindle). The lack of page #s (only locations) also takes some adjustment.
Kindle's are awesome. We gave my dad one and he is 79 and uses it a LOT. I'd like to have one but am not willing to pay the price for one (yet).
BTW: You can also send your own PDF files to your kindle with an email address they give you. Or you can send just about any document to a website and Amazon will convert it and send it instantly to your kindle for $.15 which is an awesome price.
Thanks OP, I've already sent a few of these to my dad. He can always delete them if he does not want them.
Possibly a good way to try a book before you buy... But in PC edition you can't highlight or leave notes.. only think you can do is bookmark. So, I don't think I am going to use it instead of real book. Obviously if you have kindle its a different story.
For me this does not sync with the kindle. I have a couple of free ebooks (mobi format) that I opened on both PC and Kindle. Neither syncs the last 'location' from the other.
WTF is it good for?
PS: the search function on the kindle SUCKS! When you try to use it to find the matching location from the PC, it will not even find a result even if you are ON THE SAME PAGE!
headhntr said: I just tried to download Kindle for PC from Amazon.com and Avast Anti-Virus identified a Trojan in the download. Has anyone else experienced this?
thanks
Avast has been suffering a lot of false alarms lately. It just did an automatic update download a few minutes ago, then tried to tell me that Spybot Search and Destroy is a trojan.
The Kindle software for PC download is probably just fine.
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