Interested in a free Kindle Book? Interested in lots of free Kindle books?
There are a LOT of Free Books available for the Kindle and Kindle 2. Add the free kindle book sites to all the other benefits of the Kindle and it makes sense to buy a Kindle 2.
- Free Books from Project Gutenberg (20,000) – You can find nearly all (19,505) these books in Kindle Book Format, Free at ManyBooks.net. Also, www.mnybks.net is an extension of Manybooks above, but if you access it through the basic WebBrowser in Kindle, you can download Kindle Books directly to your Kindle, the way you would an Amazon book. Choose the Mobipocket format as that is the only format that’ll work.
- Free Kindle books from Munsey’s. Some good books at the Kindle specific part of Munsey’s.
- The Kindle Store now has over 7,000 free public domain books – these were added around January 29th, 2009. You can also navigate into any subsection of the Kindle Store and order books by Price: Low to High to get to free kindle books in that section.
- Free New Kindle Book List - You can find a list of current new books in the Kindle store (non public domain). You can Search through kindle store free books at bookmonk dot com.
- A million free Google Books on your Kindle - You can check the guide (including video walkthroughs) to getting google free books on your kindle.
- Courtesy Jon Wolf, the MobileRead eBook library has 2,990 eBooks available in Mobipocket format which will work for your Kindle and Kindle 2.
- Librivox- LibriVox has become the most prolific audiobook publisher in the world, with over 1000 full length audio books, producing 60-70 books a month. About 1,500 volunteers have contributed audio recordings to the project; and a catalog that includes classics, such as Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Moby-Dick, The Bible, Darwin’s Origin of the Species, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, Marx’s Communist Manifesto, and many other well-known works.
- eBookSearchr ebook search engine – really quite good.
- Google Book Search- Read the Classics online – do remember to select ‘Full View’ to get the free books.
- The Internet Archive – a HUGE library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.
- BookYards.com which aims to be the Library to the World, and has a total of 15,858 books and access to hundreds of online libraries (800,000Ebooks).
- A great idea – have portions of books emailed to you for free via DailyLit so you can read books along with your email.
- Free PDFs – Classic Literature at Planet EBook – They have quite a nice mission i.e. Existing free eBooks on the Web tend to be well beneath the quality of paper books, making them more difficult and less pleasurable to read. At Planet eBook we’re trying to change this. Our goal is to publish a small selection of high-quality eBooks — each a genuine alternative for readers wanting to enjoy reading a book without having to pay for it. The books we publish are all in the public domain so there is no real need for readers to continue to pay for them.
- Free eBooks section of MobiPocket - Has a bunch of titles.
- Free eBooks from Fictionwise – includes a lot of Reference books and classics.
- Free Books from FeedBooks – Would recommend getting the Feedbooks Download Guide. You can read more about it here: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17465
Once you have this ‘book’ on your Kindle, you can browse the Feedbooks books and download easily (from the Kindle). All you need is to have the wireless on and be in a region covered by whispernet. - 30,000+ free books readable online at The Online Books Pageat UPenn. These are books that are readable online (so not downloadable).
- 500,000 Books from World Library with a 8.95$ yearly subscription.
- Online Book initiative – This is not very well organized and books are just listed as found or scanned.
- Mostly Sci-Fi ebooks free from Webscriptions.
- Free EBooks from Wowio - there’s a 3 free books a day limit, and you’ll need the MobiPocket Creator – a FREE Mobi-Pocket conversion software from Mobipocket.com. For detailed steps you can check How to view PDF files on the Kindle.
- Computer and IT books at Flazx.com - a very good list of titles.
- Free Computer Science and Programming books, textbooks, and lecture notes - quite a good selection at FreeTechBooks.com.
- Free Computer Technical Books, Tutorials and Lecture Notes at FreeComputerBooks.com.
- Free Sci-Fi novels and books from Baen at the Baen Free Library.
- Dwalin - A good selection of plain text novels.
- Free Audio versions of Public Domain books read out by Volunteers at LibriVox- LibriVox has become the most prolific audiobook publisher in the world, with over 1000 full length audio books, producing 60-70 books a month. About 1,500 volunteers have contributed audio recordings to the project.
- Wired for Books – an amazing range of interviews and lots of great audio content. They say – poems, stories, plays, essays, lectures, and interviews for children and adults.
For more free kindle book offers check out the Free Kindle Book category of this blog.
In addition to the above Top Websites, eBookSearchr is a GREAT ebook Search engine. eBook Searchr*searches only manually selected high quality eBook sites. No SPAM or irrelevant search results, just eBooks! Finally, here are some interesting Websites to Explore (including more sources for free books) -
- Digital Text Platform from Amazon – Publish your Books to the Amazon Kindle. The contact email for questions is digitalpublications@amazon.com .
- Publish YourSelf Online at Scribd.com – upload documents, publish/share, and explore the library.
- Afree PDF version of Think and Grow Rick by Napoleon Hill (4.5 stars at Amazon based on 364 reviews; $7.99 and not available in Kindle version). And 5 other free books on personal development (how to get rich) at GBG Team website.
- Whiskey Creek Press is giving away a different Free Ebook novel (which you can read on your Kindle) every week during March
- (courtesy Jeffery Davidson) Steven Brust, the author of the Taltos series, has written a fanfic novel set in the Firefly universe. Normally, I wouldn’t make a big deal about something like this – but it’s Steven Brust. It’s a novel. It’s also pretty good. And it’s free. It’s available in .pdf & .doc format at his website http://dreamcafe.com/firefly.html
- Harvard University will soon begin posting research and articles produced by its faculty on the Internet free of charge.
- In an attempt to boost books sales Harper Collins publishing will begin offering electronic editions of some of its books for free
Also – a new Coelho book free every month. - Free Sci-Fi books from Tor (btw harvesting emails is wrong) – Something new is coming. Register to be one of the first to join us, and receive free digital books from bestselling and award-winning SF and fantasy authors. This is just the beginning. Once you register, you’ll receive our newsletter and a link to download a digital book. And you’ll receive a link to another new book every week. The first week’s free book is Mistborn, by rising fantasy star Brandon Sanderson. Next week’s will be Old Man’s Warby John Scalzi, 2006’s winner of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.
- CHMPDF – A collection of general interest and computer science ebooks.
- Well Told Tales – Short free audio books at Well Told Tales.
- TradePub – They have Free Trade Magazine Subscriptions and White Paper downloads provided you qualify (basically you have to register and be in that particular industry/country).
- Ebook and PDA documents from Memoware - quite a good collection, although some are in PDA formats.
- Free Study Guides, Reviews, Analysis etc. on Literature Titles at Pink Monkey.
- Free Study help from Cliffs Notes.
- A collection of open-content textbooks at WikiBooks.
- Research Material and Books at BookRags.com – a lot of titles are covered. Not the best presentation.
- Expert Media for IT Publishers from RealTime Publishers - focused on IT.
- Tech Books Online – some really old technical books
There are a lot of free kindle books available online. All books that have passed out of copyright and into the public domain ought to be available as a free kindle book. With sites like manybooks, gutenberg, and munseys you can fill your kindle reader with free kindle books, or if you prefer supplement your kindle book purchases with free books. Personally, I think this is a overlooked advantage of the Kindle – being able to get and read all the classics and public domain books for free.
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What about running programs such as Plucker? Can the Kindle handle books in that form?
It’s all part of my desperate attempts to get Kipling’s collected verse on my kindle…
Kevin, i’ve been trying to find an online version for you and the link at digital index doesn’t work (http://www.digitalbookindex.com/_SEARCH/search010child04t.asp).
you could buy it at abebooks for just 3$ or so – http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=Kipling%20Rudyard&AID=7134912&PID=1096434&tn=Collected+verse+of+Rudyard+Kipling.
Plucker working on kindle – i really don’t know enough. I do know that Kindle runs on linux – however there is no way provided to run other programs. at this point i think there’s no way to get pluckr on the kindle short of hacking it (http://igorsk.blogspot.com/2007_12_01_archive.html).
So it’d be a suggestion to Amazon to put Pluckr on the Amazon Kindle, although i’m not sure of the ramifications.
Another option would be – i’m assuming you have ‘collected verses’ by Kipling in a format that Pluck supports. Try out MobiPocket Creator to convert it into a format that Kindle accepts. I have no idea what format Pluckr uses so don’t know for sure if MobiPocket Creator will do the job.
let me know if i’m understanding your question correctly.
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I’ve used Project Gutenberg and Librivox, but a lot of these are new to me. Thanks for the tips!
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I just ordered the kindle from Amazon,I am on a waiting list. I’m glad you published this blog. i’m a constant reader, and Kindle coul become an expensive adventure for me. Glad to know there’s free kindle books out there. thanks!
I am an avid reader and Kinder seems to be theright thing to have. I have to spend about 3 hours a day under dialysis, and It is difficult for me to handle heavy books (I am 83) Kinder hopefully is a light object to handle. Am I right?
How can I get Kindle ll free of charge?
Yes. Kindle 2 is light.
Kindle 2 is 10.2 ounces.
Make sure you don’t get the DX as my friend found the weight on the higher side.
Also 1 handed reading is rather difficult on dx because of the weight. however it’s fine on the Kindle.
how can you get one free – that’s difficult. i have a post on kindle 2 contests. just google “free kindle contest’ and it’s the #2 result. i update that when lucky draws etc. happen.
don’t know of any other way.
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Woah this is a great list. I have been thinking of getting a Kindle and I didn’t realize there are so many free books out there, I’ll have to link to this list on my blog.
I have a question though, I want to offer an ebook for people to sign up to my site http://www.chloregy.org, do you think I can offer one of these free ebooks? I know they are free but does that mean I should link to the book or can I host the file on my site and credit the site I got it from.
If anyone happens to know please email me (dominik at chloregy.com) or reply, I clicked on the notify opton
Dominik – personally I think a link to the site is the right thing to do.
With a heads up from Copynomad the other day that some people are already using kindle as a verb in terms of reading texts on their Kindle devices, I found a few quotes here and there. Any more? This word might catch on to stand for reading online, the way other corporate words turned into every day slang and catchwords, such “to xerox”, “to google”, “to yahoo”, etc.
First quote I found at amazon.com:
“I’ve owned my Kindle for almost 6 months and love it. When I mention I’m reading a particular book, I refer to it as “I’m Kindling such & such a book” so it’s already a verb to me. It’s hard to imagine reading a regular book now! By the way, someone mentioned the Kindle costing $1300?!? Try $359 and books are less expensive than the printed version!
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i was under the impression that any books can be loaded on this item. i wanted to get it for may son whom has low vision to use for his text books. will he be able to load his text book on this thing?
you should look at the Kindle DX – just look at the top of the page for a ‘Kindle DX review’.
Also I don’t understand what you mean by ‘any books’.
You can buy books at Kindle Store. There are supported formats and you can add those. You can add PDF files after conversion.
Kindle DX supports PDF files natively.
Kindle DX will have good coverage – however it isn’t out until summer. Also look at the videos above – ‘Kindle 2 Videos’ at the top of the page to see what the screen looks like and the font sizes to make sure it works for your son. best of luck.
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Another free source for books for Kindle is, ironically, the Sony book store. As you may have heard, Sony and Google recently partnered to make ‘500,000+’ books available for free there. They are in ePub format, and the Sony software needed to access the store runs only on Windows, but these titles be easily converted to Kindle friendly MOBI format with a free program such as Calibre or Stanza. Sony accounts are free, you don’t need a Sony reader.
Of course many of these are the same titles which are available elsewhere without need of conversion, there is a lot of duplication of titles (different editions having been scanned and converted to ePub), the quality is not very polished, and many titles are justifiably obscure, but it is interesting to check out (if only to appreciate Kindle store more..).
I’m guessing the Sony/Google books are a subset of those available at books.google.com, where there are gazillions of books in PDF format for free. Even if that is the case ePub is more conversion-friendly than PDF, so Sony would be a better source to use.
I wuold like to see Twilight instantly on my computer if possible or read it instanly on my computer.
sorry, can’t help you with that. try amazon for movie downloads. For the book you can only read a kindle edition on a kindle or on a iphone. you might try the stephanie meyer site and see if she or her publisher sell it in pdf format that you can read on your pc.
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An electronic Bible. Do you have one????
no. there was an offer on free kindle edition bibles a few months back. there’s nothing i know of at the moment.
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Is there an easier way to find free e-books on the Amazon site rather than going thru ALL the pages?
i had a search tool at bookmonk. However, amazon have changed their API to not show free kindle books any more. So no way to search for just free books.
You could run a search and sort it by price low to high at Amazon.