Kindle 2 Links and Shortcuts: Chapters 1 through 5
The following links, along with the original sentences in which they are provided, are from the above-referenced chapter of The Complete User's Guide to the Amazing Amazon Kindle 2, which is available in both Kindle and paperback editions from Amazon.com. This reference material is not intended in any way to replace the text of this book, but instead is meant to make it more convenient for readers who have purchased either the Kindle or paperback edition to follow along and access the linked pages from a conventional computer. All material here is protected by copyright held by Stephen Windwalker and Kindle Nation Daily.
- Go to http://bit.ly/FreeKindleStoreBooks for a listing of "over 7,400" free Kindle books of all kinds. W
- Go to http://bit.ly/FreeKindlePromotionalTitles for a listing that excludes all the public domain titles so that you only see those Kindle books whose authors or publishers have set the price at zero, generally as a promotion to stir up interest in a new title or the same author's more recent book.
- While we are at it, you can also get a heads up on Kindle titles -- of all prices -- that are so new that they have yet to be released just by going to http://bit.ly/ForthcomingKindleTitlesNow, just for fun.
- And yes, you can access any of free these titles regardless of which Kindle you may be using, whether you paid $299 for the Kindle 2, $489 for the super-sized Kindle DX, or $199.99 for a just-like-new "refurbished" Kindle 1 shipped straight from Amazon.
- As a matter of fact, you can even get them without a Kindle if you are equipped with an iPhone or iPod Touch, the free Kindle for iPhone app, and a copy of my 99-cent ebook No Kindle Required - The Complete "Kindle for iPhone" User's Guide.
- Late in the Summer of 2009 Amazon took a step in the right direction for Kindle readers as well as serious Kindle authors and publishers, in the form of a forum post by Amazon's Kindle Team in the Digital Text Platform (DTP) support area for Kindle publishing:
- My take is that Amazon has a strong interest in continuing to provide a healthy catalog of free and cheap titles in the Kindle Store, beginning with its own creation of over 7,300 free offerings last February, for several reasons
- Free Kindle editions are a strong selling point for Kindle owners, as is evident from the fact that Kindle owners jump all over any link provided here for free books and are, lately, consistently vaulting 15 to 18 free titles at any given time into the top 25 Kindle bestsellers.
- Then there are the Kindle Store's zero-priced promotional titles, which used to provide a way for indie authors and indie publishers to get some readership attention but in recent months have mainly been restricted to sweetheart deals with big publishers or for Amazon's own publications.
- Project Gutenberg was founded nearly 40 years ago by Michael Hart, and I urge you to check out its main website at http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page and its Wikipedia entry at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Gutenberg to get an appreciation for an inspiring story of a real movement of people committed to a communitarian ideal that has gathered around the work and steadfast commitment of the founding individual.
- The hardest part of the entire process may be to type the following URL into your Kindle's web browser: http://freekindlebooks.org/MagicCatalog/MagicCatalog.mobi
- To use Mobileread: In your Kindle web browser, type in this URL (or click on the live link if you are reading this on your Kindle): http://www.mobileread.com/mobiguide
- Feedbooks – at http://www.feedbooks.com/kindleguide -- provides a similar service that features thousands of books in Kindle compatible MOBI format.
- These MOBI-formatted books look great on the Kindle, and there is even a Kindle help page for Feedbooks visitors at http://www.feedbooks.com/help/kindle.
- Download the amazing ebook conversion program Calibre, set it up and synch it with your Kindle, and keep it on your computer.
- Go to Google Book Search and select the "Advanced Book Search" link.
- You can also broaden your searching process by clicking here to enter the Google Books "Browse" mode, which will return a set of browsing categories such as you might find in the Kindle or Amazon bookstore.
- By way of explanation, here's a snippet from the announcement piece that ran on the Publishers Weekly website:
- CellStories: A Daily Dose of Awesome.
- One that is well worth checking out is the ManyBooks website, where you can explore a remarkable selection of free content that you will be able to download to your Kindle.
- For a comprehensive list of other websites that feature free content that you may transfer to your Kindle, see the Kindle Nation Daily or A Kindle Home Page blog and scroll down to the "Websites for Free Books" listings in the right sidebar, or use this list directly from your Kindle or other device:
http://bit.ly/FreeKindleStoreBooks
http://bit.ly/FreeKindlePromotionalTitles
http://freekindlebooks.org/MagicCatalog/MagicCatalog.mobi
http://www.mobileread.com/Mobiguide
http://www.feedbooks.com/kindleguide
http://bit.ly/ForthcomingKindleTitlesNow
http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/freebooks.htm
http://diesel-ebooks.com/cgi-bin/category/free_download
Dartmouth College - E-Books in the Public Domain
- Instead, go to your Manage Your Kindle page on Amazon.com from your computer.
- (If you have a lot of Kindle subscriptions and you want to see them all at once without going through intermediate steps and extra clicks, use this link to see Manage Your Kindle Subscriptions in "View All" mode.
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