Originally Posted By: rafowell
Originally Posted By: ILBob
http://ilbob.blogspot.com/2013/03/free-outdoor-related-kindle-books-3-2-13.html

It 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.


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 Associates

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

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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