Comments on: How To Download Free Amazon Kindle eBooks To Your PC

By: Raf

Raf — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:15:19 +0000

And since when do marketers to a mass audience market to nix users? Use Wine or Parallels for the Windows or Mac conversion (parallels worked for me) and continue using whatever flavor of Linux makes your soul happy. :)

By: Maz

Maz — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 03:07:36 +0000

Hello! Thanks for the article. When I downloaded the software (12/12/09) I didn’t haft to put in a credit card #. All I did was enter my amazon account and voilÃ ! Also, now they have lots more free books. Check it out, if you haven’t already.

By: Buffet

Buffet — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:58:19 +0000

If I’m not buying anything, what’s up with insisting on a cc??

By: roger

roger — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:55:18 +0000

i followed the link to Amazon.com you kindly provided and had the same problem, no free books, until, after a bit of experimentation, i found that if you search for books in the sub-department “Kindle Books” there are no freebies, but if you search for “Kindle Books” in the main department “Books” there they are.

By: Ketcapli Makarna

Ketcapli Makarna — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:53:02 +0000

Yes, amazon.co.uk may be the problem. Try this direct link

By: Ketcapli Makarna

Ketcapli Makarna — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:48:53 +0000

The installation process was easy. Thanks for the clear instructions. I had an Amazon account, and I've downloaded a free book successfully. Actually, the Kindle for PC is like a lightweight PDF reader. What I like is to be able to access Amazon Kindle store ebooks. And the Kindle is remembering the last location. But the program is still in early stages. If you go to http://www.amazon.com/KindleForPCComingSoon you'll see that highlights and notes are coming soon. These are the basic features but lacking in Kindle for PC.

By: Pankaj Singh

Pankaj Singh — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:41:56 +0000

Thanks keshav. Your tip was really helpful. :) Nice to see doctors active on makeuseof. Am an Internist….:)

By: bob jones

bob jones — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:56:13 +0000

Check out Barnes & Noble’s “Nook,” to be available for purchase at the end of the month (www.nook.com). Assuming that it does what it says it does, it should blow Kindle out the water!

By: KH

KH — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:47:32 +0000

“the Kindle for PC, with the Mac version on itâ€™s way!”

So having a PC automatically means you’ve got Microsoft Windows? And if you don’t have a “PC” you have a Mac? How quaint.

Elwood Blues: -”What kind of music do you usually have here?”
Claire: -”Oh, we got both kinds. We got country *and* western.”

By: Julian Knight

Julian Knight — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:24:23 +0000

Why on Earth would I want to go to all that trouble just to get what should be copyright free books into a proprietary, locked, DRM’d, remotely-deletable format on a PC only when I can have all of these and tons more in open formats that I can read for the next several hundred years on many devices including portable ones like my nice, high-res smart phone?

STRANGE!

By: keshav

keshav — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:04:45 +0000

There are other sites to search free kindle books.

One of the best is feedbooks:
http://www.feedbooks.com has loads of free books which can be downloaded in kindle format. First download kindle for PC. After downloading the books from feedbooks in Kindle format, double click on the downloaded file to automatically open in Kindle reader. Kindle reader itself does not have open (ctrl+o) option.

I hope I have added something.

Dr Keshav Kulkarni, Radiologist

By: Jon Gibbons

Jon Gibbons — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:03:46 +0000

Went to Kindle on Amazon and “No Free Books” all books seem to be $2.30, forget that.

By: Luiz PicanÃ§o

Luiz PicanÃ§o — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:56:29 +0000

There is no free beer

By: Pankaj Singh

Pankaj Singh — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:40:03 +0000

I have an account on amazon.com. However i can’t find any free books either. The cheapest, including Dickens’, is 2.30.
:(

By: LH

LH — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:25:51 +0000

I HAVE to give them access to a credit card? No thanks.
Even the free books require you to click on a button that says ‘buy it’, No thanks.
The whole process sounds intentionally confusing and kinda scammy.