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FYI: How to Download Free Books onto the Amazon Kindle
PopularMechanics.com ^ | February 9, 2009 | Seth Porges

Posted on 02/11/2009 6:25:03 AM PST by yankeedame

How to Download Free Books onto the Amazon Kindle The cost of books for e-book readers like the Amazon

Kindle and Sony Reader can add up. But there's no reason to pay Sony or Amazon for books that are already in the public domain. Here's how to get them onto your e-book reader for free.

Because their static screens don't flicker like an LCD, E Ink e-book readers such as the Amazon Kindle (check out our coverage of the just-announced second-gen Kindle here) and Sony Reader are easy on your eyes and easy on their own batteries.

They draw power only to load new pages, not to display the content, allowing a single charge to last through thousands of pages. While the manufacturers might love it if every e-book you read was purchased from their online stores at about $10 a pop, you have other options. The Internet is filled with Web sites eager to dispense virtual versions of books that have lapsed into the public domain. Some of these sites, such as ManyBooks.net, have even begun offering up versions that are specially formatted for the Kindle (.azw files) and Reader (.lrf).

You won't find any recent best sellers in the public domain, but it's filled with time-tested classics—more Huckleberry Finn than Harry Potter. Amazon's Kindle store sells classics for between $1 and $4, but with sites like Many Books there's no reason to pay for them anymore. Bringing a Web-found e-book to your reader is easy—just download it onto an SD card and insert it.

And while the Kindle will also support .txt text files, it does not natively support PDF or Microsoft Word files.

So if you have have any ebooks in these common formats, you'll need to convert them before you can read them. There's two ways you can do this. It can be done either through third-party software such as the Mobipocket eBook Creater , or by emailing the files to Amazon, who will do the work for you.

To do this, send an email to ourkindleusername@free.kindle.com (sub in your Amazon Kindle username for "yourkindleusername"). Amazon will then send you a converted file, free of charge.


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Computers/Internet; Education
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1 posted on 02/11/2009 6:25:03 AM PST by yankeedame
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To: yankeedame
Project Gutenberg and Classic Reader.com are great places to download tons of public domain books. Good stuff too. Classic Reader will sell you a CD full of their stuff real cheap.
2 posted on 02/11/2009 6:39:58 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (All the oil's in Texas...but all the dipsticks are in Washington, DC.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

go to www.mobileread.com and any and all info you could need on e-books.


4 posted on 02/11/2009 7:32:26 AM PST by Raymann
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Mark for later.


5 posted on 02/11/2009 7:53:56 AM PST by girlscout
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To: yankeedame
Bringing a Web-found e-book to your reader is easy—just download it onto an SD card and insert it.

The new Kindle doesn't come with an SD slot, I have learned.

6 posted on 02/11/2009 7:59:17 AM PST by 6323cd (Loyal Opposition My Ass)
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To: yankeedame

http://www.baen.com/library/ has free science-fiction and fantasy e-books.


7 posted on 02/11/2009 8:05:13 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (This disaster brought to you by the failed Obama administration.)
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To: yankeedame

mark for later


8 posted on 02/11/2009 9:08:57 AM PST by youturn (Jack Bauer knows who is behind the electronic run on the banks.)
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The Kindle 2 is coming out this month, I think the price is going to be $369!

Thanks yankeedame.

Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution.

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9 posted on 02/11/2009 6:42:10 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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bookmarked.


10 posted on 02/11/2009 9:44:47 PM PST by neb52 (Master of the Possimpible!)
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