- Originally posted March 3, 2010 – © Kindle Nation Daily 2010
- “Free” in the Kindle Store refers, for now, to the price for download to US-based Kindles. Amazon adds various charges for Kindles based beyond US borders. However, you can scroll down to Free Book Collections for over 1.8 million titles that can be downloaded free from the internet to Kindles anywhere in the world (use USB connection to avoid wireless charges.)
In addition to the several dozen free promotion books listed below, Amazon has just created a new direct gateway
to over 2 million other free books that you can download easily to your Kindle. Here’s what you’ll find there:
to over 2 million other free books that you can download easily to your Kindle. Here’s what you’ll find there:With over 420,000 titles, the Kindle Store contains the largest selection of the books people want to read including New York Times® Best Sellers and most new releases at $9.99, unless otherwise marked. And Amazon provides thousands of the most popular classicsBut of course, the Internet is huge and there are lots of older, out-of-copyright, pre-1923 books online. We wanted to make it easier to find these collections, which today represent nearly 2 million titles. See the sites and instructions below to download free classic and other out-of-copyright, pre-1923 books and transfer via USB to your Kindle device or read on Kindle for PC.Note that these large collections of older free books are typically created from scanned copies of physical books and can have variable quality.
Amazon Kindle Store – Thousands of the most popular classics for freeThe Amazon Kindle Store lets you choose from thousands of popular classics all available for free wireless delivery in under 60 seconds with Whispernet.
- Visit Kindle Popular Classics
- Search or browse for a title just like a normal Kindle book.
Internet Archive – Over 1.8 million free titlesInternet Archive is a non-profit dedicated to offering permanent access to historical collections that exist in digital format. Provides over 1.8 million free books to read, download, and enjoy.
- Visit archive.org
- Search for a title or browse one of the sub-collections like ‘American Libraries’
- When viewing a title, click the link on the left labeled “Kindle (beta)” to download the file to your computer
- Attach your Kindle to your computer using your USB cable and drag the file to the “Documents” folder on your Kindle. You can also e-mail the file to your Kindle using Whispernet for wireless delivery (charges apply).
- Open the book from your Kindle’s home screen and enjoy.
Project Gutenberg – Over 30,000 free titlesProject Gutenberg, one of the original sources of free electronic books, is dedicated to the creation and distribution of eBooks.
- Visit gutenberg.org
- Search for a title or browse the ‘Book shelves by topic’
- When viewing a title, scroll down to the ‘Download this ebook for free’ section and click the download link for ‘Mobipocket’ or ‘Mobipocket with images’ format.
- Attach your Kindle to your computer using your USB cable and drag the file to the “Documents” folder on your Kindle. You can also e-mail the file to your Kindle using Whispernet for wireless delivery (charges apply).
- Open the book from your Kindle’s home screen and enjoy.
Have you seen another great collection of free Kindle books on the web? Drop us a line.
- WARNING! Please be aware that these free listings sometimes last for only a few hours, and sometimes for a few days, so I recommend making sure that you see the current price before you click on the “Buy” button!
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