The Kindle is an e-book reader sold through Amazon. The Amazon Kindle is actually in its fourth generation, and has been the most popular e-book reader device for approximately the last five years. On the Kindle, you can browse, shop, purchase and download e-books, magazines, audio books blogs, and magazine articles. Because the Kindle is outfitted with wireless networking, dozens of types of digital media can be accessed essentially anywhere.
So, here’s what you should know about downloading books to your Kindle. Amazon’s Kindle store has over one million book titles to choose from and download, The majority of the Kindle books on Amazon require regular payment – most titles sell for under twenty dollars – but there are thousands of free titles available for download. There are a few companies, like Project Gutenberg, and Open Library, that offer hundreds of classic literature titles for download to your Kindle.
The reason these sites can offer these titles is because the copyrights in many cases have expired on books more than one hundred years old. This basically means that Moby Dick and Anna Karenina are ubiquitously available for download on Kindles because their copyrights have expired.
Let’s look at the logistics of downloading books directly to your Kindle device. Ideally one would visit a site that offers free titles, such as Project Gutenberg, select a desirable title, and transfer the book over to one’s Kindle library via USB connection or Wi-Fi connection. The free books available at places like Project Gutenberg are typically in conventional and easy to access formats, such as MOBI. Titles are also available in a format called ePUB. ePUB documents aren’t straightaway compatible with the Kindle, but by downloading Calibre software you can easily transform a file from an incompatible EPUB file to a downloadable, Kindle-friendly MOBI file. Alternatively, you might consider using “ Internet Archive” to access free and scanned eBooks, some of which are available in the MOBI format.
To find free eBooks available for the Kindle, in MOBI and other formats, you can also go directly to Amazon.com. Amazon often provides new titles as free eBooks to increase circulation of otherwise obscure authors and titles. Although manually searching for free titles on Amazon is clearly an option, a more efficient route might be to arrange the search output by price. You could then further refine your search for free Kindle downloads by stipulating you’d only like Kindle-compatible items as search output.
For the hardcore searcher of free Kindle downloads, it’s recommended to use a service called “Zero Dollar Books,” a project by project by Amit Agarwal which is available via Twitter. Zero Dollar Books alerts subscribers to new books available via Amazon, which also happen to be free! The deals disseminated through Zero Dollar Books are typically available for download for up to three days after listing on Zero Dollar Books.
This information should help you locate the best free books using your Amazon Kindle device. Just make sure of the format (e.g., MOBI) and make sure to check out all of the listed sites catering for free Kindle downloads.
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