Finding Free e-books

Posted by: DeputyHeadmistress on Friday, February 1st, 2013

Almost every day I search for free books for my Kindle and yours. You don't have to have a Kindle to take advantage of this. You can download them to your laptop and to your other electronic devices (I'm not that technology conversant- Android? I-Phone?).

I post what I find on The Common Room blog's Facebook account.

I first go to the Amazon Kindle store and search the book categories that interest me, choosing to sort them by lowest price to highest. If I have time to browse, I leave the Search box empty, just clicking on different categories under e-books in the left side column. This does bring up a lot of garbage, including covers with unsavory images- the stor that, if they were a magazine cover, they'd be kept where children couldn't see them. It really irritates me that Amazon apparently has no option for blocking these titles if you're not interested in them. I sift through a lot of garbage to find titles that might be of interest.

If I need to quickly target my searches I type a single word into the search box, hoping to bring up titles with that word in it. My most common are:
garden
homestead, homesteading
budget
frugal
groceries
money

Other sources for lists of free ebooks are:

http://www.pixelofink.com/

http://bookbub.com/deals/

http://www.inspiredreads.com/

http://ereadergirl.com/

http://ereadernewstoday.com/

project gutenberg

Updated to add these free e-books for today:

Debt Free 21 No-Nonsense Ways to Manage Your Money and Become Debt Free Sooner

Saving Your Way to a Better Life

Big Results In Less Time: The time management productivity plan that gets top results - How to get things done in the shortest time for the greatest results

Advice & How To - How To Retire Without Money

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4 Responses to “Finding Free e-books”

Mama Squirrel Says:
February 1st, 2013 at 6:31 am

“My most common are:
garden
homestead, homesteading
budget
frugal
groceries
money”

I also use the words thrifty, thrift (although then you have to wade past all the Dover Thrift books), cheap, handmade, homemade, recycling, pantry. Craft and crafts will bring up both things to make and some other weird meanings of craft, so be careful with that one. Also any current holiday (like Christmas) will often bring up free books of frugal recipes or ways to celebrate.

Mama Squirrel Says:
February 1st, 2013 at 6:35 am

Here’s one your FYB might enjoy today: 3 Scabbards Anyone Can Make.

;-)

mike crosby Says:
February 1st, 2013 at 9:15 am

Here’s a blog that comes to my reader daily. A list of around 25 books for free. Great app.

Jan Says:
February 11th, 2013 at 10:42 pm

May I add my site to that list? I have an auto discover script running to find free books, so there are about 700 of them coming in each day: http://www.heidoc.net/amazon/kindle.php

 

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