Dick Dasterdly

Wonder if anyone can advise or PM me a good free and easy download site for kindle ebooks.
Many thanks in advance.

jdr

Google is your friend, go on the youtube link and listed on the right of the screen is how to upload them to a kindle.

tex_ritter

To upload just plug your Kindle into your computer and drag and drop to the Documents folder of the Kindle, or do you mean download to your Kindle?

kimilseung

Project Gutenberg

tex_ritter

Gutenberg is fantastic for classic books and all free:

http://www.manybooks.net/

http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/ and more, just spend a little time on research. Google books offer a lot of free books too.

http://calibre-ebook.com/download_windows will convert many other formats to kindle format (free programme).

Can never replace real books for me but they are just so bloody good at what they do.

Domino

Oh the feel, the smell, the "presence" of a real book, especially an old one. The oldest I have is only 130yrs but it still imparts that connection to the men who made it.

Plastic is so inert and doesnt impart that "feeling", I can never be "turned on" by an early pc or similar.
Perhaps would feel different about the original Colossus but it still wouldn't be the same as a book or a real antique.

marqueemoon

Gutenberg is good but I also use http://openlibrary.org/

Calibre book management is really useful too as tex-ritter says becasuse many books are in Epub format which can't be read by a Kindle - you need to convert to Mobi

marqueemoon

I agree with you Domino. Nothing can replace the enjoyment of a real book, particularly old ones. However getting hold of a copy of an out of print book from 1790 for example is almost impossible but Gutenberg and other similar projects at least make accessing the contents of these rare books a possibilty

jdr

You download them to your PC from the web and then upload them to your Kindle.

I always drag and drop, it`s so much easier than all the Itunes etc crap systems.

tex_ritter

Download from the net to PC then Download from PC to Kindle

Some awful people actually look on bit torrent sites and download whole collections at a time tut tut.

Dick Dasterdly

I have downloaded a few books which the pc states are successfully loaded onto the kindle and show up on the pc readout as being on the kindle yet I can't find any trace of them on the kindle when it's disconnected from the pc ?

kimilseung

What file extension?
Which folder on the Kindle?
How are you trying to view them on the Kindle?

for mobi/pdf books look under the 'docs' tab not 'book' tab
don't load on to the Kindle in folders ('docs' tab *.pdf reader does not like files in folders, but the Acrobat reader app will find *.pdf wherever on the Kindle it is and in whatever folder)

mikelincs

For free torrent downloads, try Pirate bay, just ensure your download is in Mobi format, of get Calibre to convert them from other formats.

Justlookin

What is the matter with getting your books on e-bay. Thousands for less than a fiver

mikelincs

Because all the books I've downloaded have been free, includes all the latest titles as well.