FREE BOOKS (for Smartphone & Kindle owners)

MagicMarker

If you own a kindle you probably already know this, but for smartphone users there is a Kindle app so you can download your very own books straight to your smartphone. I only found this out today so sorry if it's old news!

In the last few minutes I've downloaded...

The Communist Manifesto - Carl Marx
Einstein's Theory of Relativity
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Origin of Species - Charles Darwin
Edgar Allen Poe's Complete Poetical Works
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Bram Stoker's Dracular
Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography
A Mid Summer Night's Dream - Shakespear

There's lots of other stuff like Shakespear, Little Women, Pride & Prejudice. There's also some Aristotle, Homer, DaVinci etc...

See books here

Once you download the app and register your email you can order directly from the website and the book will be sent straight to your phone!!

SickBoy

Something for free
What's the catch??

AdMMM

The catch is that all these books are in the public domain and free anyway.

MagicMarker

Yes, from a library, what's your point?

moonboy52

They are free because they were written before 1929 (i could be a few years out with that date)

jeromeof

MagicMarker wrote: »

Yes, from a library, what's your point?

You obviously haven't heard of Project Gutenburg, its has been around since 1971 with free ebooks?

http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top

eamon234

jeromeof wrote: »

You obviously haven't heard of Project Gutenburg, its has been around since 1971 with free ebooks?

http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top

Yes indeed and are already included on the iBook store. Many's a classic I read on my Palm PDA back in the day!

messinkiapina

Well I never knew about it anyway, thanks OP.

gollem_1975

SickBoy wrote: »

Something for free
What's the catch??

won't do sales of Amazons Kindle any harm.

kearneybobs

Do I have to use the same email address for buying as I do have registered with my smartphone? Common sense will tell me yes, but I'm just checking. Really don't wanna have to set up another amazon account to do this.

MagicMarker

I just used my normal amazon account, didn't have to set anything new up.

kearneybobs

Just tried it out there. Have my amazon account with hotmail. Works great on android. Just entered my amazon details into the app and it auto recognized it. Works great. Thanks

littleoulme

Thanks OP.

d31b0y

Audio books...
http://www.booksshouldbefree.com/
http://www.newfiction.com/
http://www.thoughtaudio.com/
http://librivox.org/
http://www.podiobooks.com/
http://www.openculture.com/
http://www.learnoutloud.com/
http://storynory.com/
http://www.librophile.com/

eBooks
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://manybooks.net/
http://www.baen.com/library/defaultTitles.htm


Taken from Make Use Of (Audio book post) and Make Use Of (eBook post).

I particularly recommend the eBook post on Make Use Of. It's good.

EDIT: Fair play to the OP. Bringing this to more peoples attention. There are some great initiatives out there.

Vinny-Chase

Nothing for Symbian users : /

dmck

Thanks OP and others for the links.

Dublin141

You can also read them on your computer if you download the kindle for pc application.

There are always free current books too, it isn't only public domain.

This is a link to the bestsellers lists, both free and paid.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/digital-text/ref=pd_dp_ts_kinc_1

There are also blogs that list free books on a daily basis. Sometimes fiction, sometimes non-fiction. They might not always be available in Europe but most are.

http://kindlehomepage.blogspot.com/ (Kindle only)
http://booksontheknob.blogspot.com/ (Kindle/Nook etc)

And these forums have a lot of book recommendations and special offers/coupons. If you want to try cheap ebooks by small publishers or independent ones, these are probably the best places to go.

http://kindleboards.com
http://mobileread.com

TanG411

Vinny-Chase wrote: »

Nothing for Symbian users : /

Then you've never heard of Mobireader. Works very well on my E71.

The only downside is it doesn't read any of the ebooks downloaded directly from sites like projectgutenberg. (It reads .prc and .txt files)
So what I do is covert them using Calibre.

jimmycrackcorm

MagicMarker wrote: »

If you own a kindle you probably already know this, but for smartphone users there is a Kindle app so you can download your very own books straight to your smartphone. I only found this out today so sorry if it's old news!

In the last few minutes I've downloaded...

The Communist Manifesto - Carl Marx

That's as far as I got.

Ludo

Get Aldiko for Android. Great ebook reader and it is free. You can download all these free books directly through it also and there is no need to sign up or register for anything.

Any epub books that you get from other sources can also be imported into Aldiko (unless they are DRM protected).

MagicMarker

jimmycrackcorm wrote: »

That's as far as I got.

Well done.