How to fill your Kindle for FREE
Just discovered that manybooks.net now has kindle formated books available. If you have wondered, “what can I get to try my kindle out with that won’t cost me anything,” search no longer. Many (Ha, that’s part of their name) of the books I read when I was younger and would consider great books for your own library are available at the site. I downloaded Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe and, although it has about 7 pages of pretext explaining that the text came from the Gutenbug project and how you can contribute if you want to, there is a coverpage picture and the text is all there. So in my mind, score one for FREE!
There is a large number of books at manybooks.net that I wouldn’t bother with, but I plan on grabbing many of the classics that I haven’t read or haven’t read since I was much younger. “Frankenstien” by Mary Shelly or Bram Stokers “Dracula” were a few that I have never read the book but have obviously seen ton of retread movies related to them. One I do want to get is Treasure Island and Gulliver’s Travels, which I haven’t read since I was 10, but there are really too many to list here. A large number of Shakespere’s works, Poe, well far more than I had expected. So Kudos to ManyBooks.net for hopping on the bandwagon early and getting their collection converted so quickly. Go check it out, I can’t image you won’t find at least one book you’ll download.
Free Books at Amazon
As a commenter mentioned, there are lots of free books available at Amazon.com. The link I provided lists all available Kindle books sorted by price. All of the free books should appear first, even if you click on a category on the left of the page. I’ve used this technique many times to find new books for zero cash.
Not Free, but Used
While we’re focusing on tightening the purse strings, you should know that there are lots of used Kindles and accessories available on the web. So, if you’re looking to upgrade or pick up some accessories, a used Kindle should be a strong consideration.
Thank you for this post. I am amazed at the number of classics on this site, and have already downloaded a number of them. I also gave a donation to this site, as a thank you for providing such a great service.
Can you bring more information on how to fill kindle for free. I can’t activate an account because I live in Puerto Rico, Kindle required a valid Visa from US bank and Us address. When I decided to buy a kindle, there was no information indicating US only not for Us territory. I’m amazed and now I have a brick sitting on my desk. Any information that can you provide let me know. Thanks in advance and have a great day.
Sure, Juan. I think it’s time we revisited some of the free reading resources on the web. Look for a new post here on KindleChat in the next week or so.
In the meanwhile, you should check out FeedBooks.com. I’ve downloaded and read several books from them.
Good luck and good hunting!
You can also go to the Kindle Store on Amazon.com, click on Kindle Books and then the “Go” button (as if you were searching, but without putting any search criteria in the search box) and it will pull up all the Kindle books. From here, on the right hand side, sort the list by “Price Low to High”. It will list pages and pages of free books, mostly classics that are outside of the copyright restrictions. You can break this down to categories by clicking on a category on the left hand side so there are not so many listed.
Furthermore, when on the main Kindle Store page there is a link that says: Big Deals on Kindle. This will give you books that are temporarily free.
While this doesn’t help Juan, I hope it helps others to enjoy their Kindle even more : )
Thank you for this post.
The website http://www.freekindlebooks.org is designed to allow free web browsing and downloading of free books to your Kindle using your Kindle’s “Experimental” web browser. Click on a book title and it automatically downloads to your Kindle. It also has an e-book called The Magic Catalog which you can download to your Kindle. Browse through the Magic Catalog, click on any book title in the catalog, and that book will automatically for free download to your Kindle.
Also, using your computer you can download free books for your Kindle directly from the source at Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org — the original source for most of these free books no matter which website they end up on. Search on Author and Title, find a book, and then scroll down through the resulting book information until you see the section labeled Format … Mobipocket. Right click on the Download Link to download the Mobipocket file to your computer and from there to your Kindle’s documents directory — Mobipocket files aka .mobi or .prc are basically the same file format as Amazon’s paid book format, except that the free books do not contain DRM — Digital Rights Management — restrictions that keep you from copying and sharing books. This is possible since the books are pre-1932 where copyright has expired, allowing you to freely copy these books.
Previous comment worried me.
Can l use my new kindle on a vacation in Puerto Rico?
As long as it’s just reading u should be able to use ur ereader anywhere.