Free E Books

lol. I probably spent less than $20 for kindle books in the past two years. Their free bestsellers list changes daily. I go out once in a while and download ten or twenty books.

Another....subscribe to 'bookbub' and every day they send an email with free or low cost books.

I download books to the Amazon cloud. I can then download them to one of our four Kindle products. The neat thing is that any product I use will sync to the furthest page read if I wish.

Why four devices? I have an E-Ink and a Kindle Fire. My wife has a PaperWhite and a Kindle Fire. We use one Amazon account so all books in the cloud are available to each of us.

I do the library thing also. I can check them out from the Palisade CO library while here in Bouse AZ for the winter.

If you like Science Fiction/Fantasy, try this: Baen Free Library

Also, if you subscribe to the Tor newsletter, they include one or two short stories every week. You can add "send to Kindle" to Chrome browser, then open the link to the story and send it to your Kindle. :C

The "send to Kindle" is handy, I've used it for trip notes, receipts, recipes...

Right now, my Amazon library supports 11 devices, down from a high of 13. ;) Hubby and I each have an e-ink K3, a Fire HD, a first gen Fire and a kindle app on our smartphones. I have a Kindle app on my Windows 8 computer. My mother and my bro in law each have an e-ink Kindle I maintain. I don't believe there is a limit to Kindles on your account, but some books are limited to being on no more than 6 devices at a time.

Thanks for the info on deleting books. I just did both,(deleted from manage my account and from the Kindle screen). I will admit that I still like paper books best but the Kindle is very, very handy. lizzie

We've been fulltime traveling for 13 years. Between DW and I, we go through an average of 5 books/week, about 1/2 and 1/2 paper and e-books. Haven't paid for any reading material since textbooks in college MANY moons ago. As a couple of others have mentioned, the "secret" is libraries. We have a 2" stack of library cards from all over the country, and that doesn't include the ones that have expired. We still download e-books from libraries we haven't physically visited in years. Out of 38 states visited thus far, only one has refused access to its' libraries. Oregon's libraries are not long-term visitor friendly. Seems to be a state-wide policy as we we have been refused in 4 separate locations. If you aren't a resident there and can't prove it with a drivers license or similar, good luck.

Hats off to the public library system in this country!

To remove a Kindle ebook from the app on my iPad, I just go to the library page on the app, touch the book I want to remove for a couple of seconds, and I get a prompt to remove the book from my device and it goes back into the cloud. I use Bookbub for most of my books. You set it up to send you the types of books you are interested in and they send you a selection of books every day. And the books are shareable with other devices associated with your account and the books are loanable although not all books can be loaned. Reading devices are a marvelous thing for RVers. You can even get magazines electronically and the price per issue is half of what you pay for a paper edition.

Anyone have an older version of Kindle reader that would work on a 1st gen iPad with 5.1.1 max IOS?