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Free Books for Kindle

waldo
waldo Posts: 495
in Not Sports Related
My wife bought me a 'basic' (her word) Kindle and I am hopeful someone can tell me a good source for downloading free books please. I have acquired a taste for Peter Robinson Inspector Banks plots and would particularly like source for these.
Hopefully someone can help me? Many thanks.

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  • randy andy
    randy andy Posts: 5,458
    Just search on Amazon, thousands of free books in the Kindle store.
  • DRF
    DRF Posts: 2,455
    The weekend Daily Mail (think Sunday but not sure) has a load of top tens and one of them is top ten free kindle books.
    If you want a certain author then you can type his name in the Amazon search (make sure you search the Kindle libarary rahter than everywhere) and that will highlight them.
    Do bear in mind though that not every author offer their books for Kindle (although this is getting less and less) and that popular authors are rarely free and on the odd occasion can be more expensive than the paperback version.

    Happy e reading!
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,209
    http://www.gutenberg.org/
    http://freekindlebooks.org/
    Most of the stuff on the above sites are "classics". Which means out of copyright. Still, that means Dickens, Hardy, etc, etc. One issue is that the books are not neccessarily transferred to a digital format very accurately and consequently tend to suffer from annoying typos more than their traditional counterparts.
    There are indeed also masses of free books available direct from Amazon. Some are surprisingly good. I'd recommend The Crew by Dougie Brimson which has an unexpected twist in the tail.
  • raddickle
    raddickle Posts: 113
    edited November 2012
    There are quite a few authors 'publish' at a cheap price on amazon first and if successful then go into print. I think 'The Slap' and 'The Room' are examples.
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,930
    here you go - list of top 100 free books.
    You can also click on the various subsections on left hand side for different genres such as Thrillers / sport / comedy etc.

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bestsellers-Kindle-Store-eBooks/zgbs/digital-text/341689031/ref=pd_ts_zgc_kinc_341689031_more?pf_rd_p=285525287&pf_rd_s=right-5&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_i=341689031&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_r=1XYFFS0PQX58AQZ2N64F
  • DRF
    DRF Posts: 2,455
    Good point about the typos CAFCfan, Kindles are not for those who go into meltdown when they see a mistake!
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,930
    edited November 2012
    can recommend The Expats which I finished yesterday.
  • redcarter
    redcarter Posts: 1,013
    Amazon also keep doing new releases for 20p. I recently download Ken Follets new release Winter of the World for that price, good stuff.
  • Charltonparklane
    Charltonparklane Posts: 5,786
    Anyone wanna buy one of the standard 2gb non keyboard .kindles, with protective case and usb lead. t has never been used but can't find box. £50
    Message me if so.
  • waldo
    waldo Posts: 495
    Thanks for your help Addicks, particularly MrOneLung. I have checked that website. All I need is a result tomorrow and my week will finish on a high. Regards to you all.

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