#257002 - 03/01/13 02:59 PM
Re: free kindle books of possible interest
[Re: ILBob]
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I have purchased a few of the bundles but I find that most of the time there are not enough books in the bundle that i actually want to make the bundles worth buying to me.
Baen made a bit of a deal with the devil to get Amazon and some other big distributors to sell their ebooks.
It used to be that the standard Baen price for ebooks was $4, then it went to $6, now it seems to be $7 - $10 depending on the book.
I still prefer ebooks. They take up no space on my shelves.
I am amazed that the Ring of Fire series has managed to produce 40+ volumes of what amounts to fan fiction that is actually selling well.
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#257051 - 03/02/13 03:37 PM
Re: free kindle books of possible interest
[Re: ILBob]
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http://ilbob.blogspot.com/2013/03/free-outdoor-related-kindle-books-3-2-13.htmlIt appears that Amazon has banned the web sites that used to make comprehensive lists of free Kindle books. It will make it much harder to find stuff now.
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#257079 - 03/03/13 07:55 AM
Re: free kindle books of possible interest
[Re: ILBob]
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AFAIK, Amazon hasn't banned such sites, Amazon will just stop paying click-thru affiliate fees to sites that emphasize free Amazon ebooks, per: Amazon tightens affliate fees on Kindle books Amazon to Change Free eBook Policy for AssociatesAnother concern (which I have not confirmed) is that with the Kindle Fire, Amazon has made it difficult (not impossible, but tedious) to read non-Amazon ebooks: Kindle Fire Revew Some 29,000 free public domain ebooks in practically any format are available at Manybooks.net which is basically a "convenience" indexing and reformatting engine of the ~42,000 book collection of Project Gutenberg and they say that there are over 100,000 books available through the sites they list as Project Gutenberg Affiliates Note that the books at Project Gutenberg are two-pass human proofread after the original book was scanned. If you are okay with a fair amount of OCR errors, or willing to read books in .pdf (scanned) format rather than ePub, there are quite a few public domain books available at Google Books. As a topical example of such a Google Book, this book with tips on making campfires can be downloaded in either ePub or .pdf form from the "gear" icon dropdown menu at top right: The Art of Travel, or, Shifts and contrivances available in wild countries Update: This site seems to have a fairly comprehensive list of places to get free Kindle ebooks: 97 Places for Free Kindle Books Online (legally)
Edited by rafowell (03/03/13 09:42 AM)
Edit Reason: Found good link to add
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#257083 - 03/03/13 01:56 PM
Re: free kindle books of possible interest
[Re: rafowell]
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Sheriff
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Another concern (which I have not confirmed) is that with the Kindle Fire, Amazon has made it difficult (not impossible, but tedious) to read non-Amazon ebooks: Kindle Fire Revew I installed Bluefire Reader on my wife's Kindle Fire and it works very well for non-Amazon ebooks. It supports ePub and PDF.
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#257115 - 03/04/13 06:38 AM
Free ePub readers for Kindle Fire
[Re: chaosmagnet]
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Another concern (which I have not confirmed) is that with the Kindle Fire, Amazon has made it difficult (not impossible, but tedious) to read non-Amazon ebooks: Kindle Fire Revew I installed Bluefire Reader on my wife's Kindle Fire and it works very well for non-Amazon ebooks. It supports ePub and PDF. Yes, Adam Engst, in his April 2012 TidBits[1] article: How to Download EPUB, PDF, and Mobipocket to the Kindle Fire lists Bluefire Reader as one of his top three choices for ePub reading on the Kindle Fire: Adam's article indicates you have to temporarily disable protection to install Aldiko on the Kindle Fire, and this FAQ at the Aldiko site indicates the same: How to install the Aldiko Book Reader on Kindle Fire? This article also recommends Aldiko for ePub reading on the Kindle Fire, but doesn't say what ePub alternatives were considered: The Best eBook Format for the Kindle Fire is Epub [1] I'm surprised TidBits is still going - I used to read it 23 years ago!
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#257354 - 03/09/13 03:38 PM
Re: Free ePub readers for Kindle Fire
[Re: ILBob]
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http://ilbob.blogspot.com/2013/03/outdoors-oriented-free-kindle-book-3-9.htmlI can't really recommend this one for reasons I mention in my post but you never really know what you might run into in a free book.
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#257430 - 03/10/13 06:01 PM
Re: free kindle books of possible interest
[Re: rafowell]
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AFAIK, Amazon hasn't banned such sites, Amazon will just stop paying click-thru affiliate fees to sites that emphasize free Amazon ebooks, per: Amazon tightens affliate fees on Kindle books Amazon to Change Free eBook Policy for AssociatesAnother concern (which I have not confirmed) is that with the Kindle Fire, Amazon has made it difficult (not impossible, but tedious) to read non-Amazon ebooks: Kindle Fire Revew Some 29,000 free public domain ebooks in practically any format are available at Manybooks.net which is basically a "convenience" indexing and reformatting engine of the ~42,000 book collection of Project Gutenberg and they say that there are over 100,000 books available through the sites they list as Project Gutenberg Affiliates Note that the books at Project Gutenberg are two-pass human proofread after the original book was scanned. If you are okay with a fair amount of OCR errors, or willing to read books in .pdf (scanned) format rather than ePub, there are quite a few public domain books available at Google Books. As a topical example of such a Google Book, this book with tips on making campfires can be downloaded in either ePub or .pdf form from the "gear" icon dropdown menu at top right: The Art of Travel, or, Shifts and contrivances available in wild countries Update: This site seems to have a fairly comprehensive list of places to get free Kindle ebooks: 97 Places for Free Kindle Books Online (legally) I added some of your info to my Kindle page.
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#257445 - 03/11/13 12:35 AM
Re: free kindle books of possible interest
[Re: ILBob]
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Thanks ILBob, I've downloaded 14 books today dealing with medicine, archery and hunting from your recommended links.
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#257454 - 03/11/13 11:54 AM
Re: free kindle books of possible interest
[Re: Quietly_Learning]
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Thanks ILBob, I've downloaded 14 books today dealing with medicine, archery and hunting from your recommended links. There are a lot of out of copyright outdoors books out there. Some are kind of dated, but many have very good information in them even though they are 75 or 100 years old.
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#257456 - 03/11/13 02:18 PM
Re: free kindle books of possible interest
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Geezer in Chief
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Some are kind of dated, but many have very good information in them even though they are 75 or 100 years old. Reminds me of some geezers I know.....
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