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Kindle Reader (software version) & Free eBooks

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  • 11-02-2012 4:22pm
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    mathepac
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    If you have an account on www.amazon.com / www.amazon.co.uk for buying books, etc, you can download a free application called Kindle, a software version of the Kindle tablet, & install it on your Mac or PC. This allows you to access to free books in Kindle format from the amazon sites. Happy free reading.

    The app is also available from Apple's App Store, but the version on amazon is slightly newer. You still need to set up an account on amazon to get the ebooks.

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    mathepac
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    if you downloaded the kindle from amazon the following are available in kindle format (ebook) :

    The Complete Works of:

    Charles Dickens $2.99
    Louisa M Alcott $1.23
    Robert Louis Stephenson $3.68
    William Shakespeare $2.45
    Jane Austen $1.22
    Jules Verne $2.99
    Leo Tolstoy (two lifetimes worth of reading :) ) $1.99
    Mark Twain $2.99
    Walter Scott $2.99
    Arthur Conan Doyle $2.99
    Oscar Wilde $1.99 and more...

    There are individual titles by some of the above authors available free, but at those prices for collected works, why bother with individual books?
    The prices include VAT and all you need is a broadband connection for the download via amazon's whispernet


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    vibe666
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    amazon has about 5,000 free ebooks out of the million or so in their library if you search by 'lowest price' on the whole library.

    BUT www.gutenberg.org has 30,000 free, www.manybooks.net has 26,000 free, www.openlibrary.org has 1,000,000 free and www.archive.org has 2,500,000 free ebooks so amazon has a lot of catching up to do.


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    RiseToTheTop
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    I can't seem to find the link on amazon.co.uk, can you post it?


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    vibe666
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    RiseToTheTop wrote: »
    I can't seem to find the link on amazon.co.uk, can you post it?
    unless you are in the UK, you can't buy kindle books from the UK store anyway, you need to use amazon.com.

    the free kindle books from amazon.com are here: http://www.amazon.com/s/?node=2245146011

    if by chance you ARE in the UK then it's here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=amb_link_157482827_2?ie=UTF8&node=434020031&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-4&pf_rd_r=1JFCMBBWTM91PYXCAQ2P&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=255076527&pf_rd_i=434020031


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    WalterMitty
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    if u have your own pdfs can they be viewed with it?


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    totoal
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    WalterMitty wrote: »
    if u have your own pdfs can they be viewed with it?
    Well with iOS version you can email pdfs to your associated kindle.com address (you need to add the sender email as approved to send)


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    vibe666
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    WalterMitty wrote: »
    if u have your own pdfs can they be viewed with it?
    we're talking about a software ebook reader, so whatever you are using to read kindle books will have its own pdf reader anyway, but as totoal says, if you have an actual kindle device, you can email PDF's or most other common document types directly to your kindle using your private amazon email address you get when you register it.


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