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#1 Shinrei

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Posted 13 May 2012 - 08:31 AM

I'm not broke, but my wife and I have really cut back on personal purchases since the baby, so I'm wondering what are some good books that I can get onto my kindle for free.

I can fanagle a few books now and then, but whatever I can get for free (that's good) is a win-win.

Thanks in advance!

Btw, if your recommendation comes from somewhere other than amazon, be sure to make that clear since I'm a kindle noob.

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#2 Tsundoku

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Posted 13 May 2012 - 08:35 AM

Does the Kindle play .pdf or .doc files? In that case I recommend the Baen Free Library.

http://www.baen.com/library/

If not, disregard.

EDIT: Here's a list of supported formats:

http://www.baen.com/...er_software.asp

Dunno whether this belongs here or in the Other Lit forum ... :doh:

This post has been edited by Sombra: 13 May 2012 - 08:37 AM

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#3 Dr Trouble

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Posted 13 May 2012 - 09:16 AM

You can use a program called calibre that will convert all files to a kindle format.

I can say I use it often though. I normally just buy books through amazon - I'm single and don't have no baby!

(But when I have I torrent PDFs)

#4 Shinrei

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Posted 13 May 2012 - 10:52 AM

Thank you. Good so far. :doh:

Sombra, on 13 May 2012 - 08:35 AM, said:

Dunno whether this belongs here or in the Other Lit forum ... :thumbup:

Sure, maybe, but it's a far less-oft read forum. I don't mind if the mods move this thread there after a little time has passed.

This post has been edited by Shinrei: 13 May 2012 - 10:53 AM

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#5 Sindriss

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Posted 13 May 2012 - 01:13 PM

I cannot remember what your stance was in that piracy thread, but you can torrent books. And then you could buy them later on amazon if you feel they are good (or you have a moral problem with it).

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Posted 13 May 2012 - 02:13 PM

The Free ones from Amazon I downloaded were

The Man Who Would Be King
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
English Fairy Tales
Heroes, or Greek Tales for my Children
A Christmas Carol
Pride and Prejudice
Treasure Island
The Three Musketeers
Alice in Wonderland

Pretty much ones I would actually read and, having never read Treasure Island, I was pleasantly surprised at how good it was.

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#7 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 13 May 2012 - 04:17 PM

You can browse my catalog of ebooks (all downloaded for free) at LibraryThing. Click the link that says to use my recommended viewing style. Books downloaded from Amazon are tagged "purchased from Amazon"; others have a link in the comments field leading to the download source. (Note that some sources are just text that I copied into a homemade Kindle file using Calibre.)

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Posted 13 May 2012 - 08:13 PM

Today only, Amazon's gold box deal is 20 specific made-into-movie kindle books for 99 cents each: http://www.amazon.co...800F23ENPM3K0JF

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#9 Adjutant Stormy~

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Posted 13 May 2012 - 08:36 PM

You can torrent huge archives of books. That's what I did.

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#10 Shinrei

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Posted 13 May 2012 - 09:51 PM

THANK YOU Gamet and Salt-Man Z

Tee hee, this is where I shock the forum and say

"I've never torrented anything. How does one do it?"

SHOX!!! :doh:

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#11 Adjutant Stormy~

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Posted 13 May 2012 - 11:15 PM

Well, you go to this website and download the client: utorrent

Then you go to any of these websites thepiratebay, torrentz, or demonoid (if you begin to become a career pirate).

#12 Shinrei

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Posted 13 May 2012 - 11:28 PM

I actually have utorrent downloaded onto my computer, I've just never used it.

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#13 Shiara

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Posted 14 May 2012 - 12:41 AM

Maybe take the instructional stuff to a PM, guys - we don't want some militant copyright officer coming in here, going apeshit and suing the forum (they can do that, right?).

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#14 Adjutant Stormy~

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Posted 14 May 2012 - 12:45 AM

Nah, we're good.

The real risk is the sites I mentioned getting closed down - but they have lawyers and things.

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Posted 14 May 2012 - 01:04 AM

In that case, we find Isohunt to be a good source - just beware the casino pop-ups!

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Posted 14 May 2012 - 12:02 PM

If you want a legal (heh) source of free ebooks, try Project Gutenberg. The only "hitch" with them is that most of the books are older / copyright expired but still, you can get some great reads if you have the patience to look. I downloaded at least six or seven recently...everything from Bram Stoker's Dracula to War and Peace to A Christmas Carol.

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Posted 14 May 2012 - 01:51 PM

No one has mentioned the easiest way. Go to amazon.com click books (don't have to search anything), and then change the pricing to "Lowest to highest". Voila! Pages and pages of books that are listed as $0.00...which is another word for free. You can get quite a few classics and the like this way.

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