With the availability of so many free or affordable e-reader programs and devices for both Mac, PC, and mobile device users, you can find some good free ebooks – especially classical literature – to download and start reading in a matter of a few minutes. With Kindle being the most popular of e-readers – both in its software platform for Mac, PC and mobile devices, and its hardware versions – many websites have popped up to provide free downloads of what is called the Kindle or .mobi formats for Kindle e-readers.

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Two of the best-selling readers in today’s market are Amazon’s Kindle and Apple’s iPad. While both are ground breaking and very cool technology, they both have their own pros and cons for being used as a reading device. So which one is a better reader for the bookworm within each of us? Every person has [...]

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When Amazon made the amazing move allowing people to lend their Kindle eBooks to each other, it was only a matter of time before a service popped up making it easy to find the exact book that you’re dying to read but don’t necessarily want to buy. The Kindle lending process does have its limitations [...]

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If you’re an avid Kindle e-book reader like I am, you may be happy to know that Amazon now allows members to share their Kindle e-books with other Kindle users. This feature has been available with other e-book sellers for quite some time, most notably Barnes and Noble’s Nook e-reading service. As you may know, [...]

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By now I think we would all agree that eBook readers are here to stay. Judging from all of the people I see with them on the subway, I’d say that’s a fair assumption. Regardless of what hardware you’re carrying, however, we all generally get our content from the same places. Whether you’re reading eBooks [...]

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You can read us by RSS feed, by newsletter and on your mobile phone. Now in this modern day and age, it’s about time we made ourselves available by other digital means. Therefore, let me present MakeUseOf on the Amazon Kindle! For only a monthly subscription of $1.99 (or the same amount in British pounds), [...]

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We have published several articles about the Kindle e-reader, and as a reading tool for novels, it’s great. But what about if you’re a student and you need to access your notes and other annotations you make in your Kindle e-books? You can’t export or email your annotations directly from the Kindle or Kindle app. [...]

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A few weeks before the release of Apple”˜s free e-reader, iBooks, Amazon has released Kindle Reader for Mac. It comes about four months after the Kindle reader was made available to PC users. We reviewed that version here. Back in December, I wrote an MUO how-to article on Kindle for the iPhone, and for the [...]

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It seems that recently all the attention has been going to the iPhone or the Android platform. There will soon be an uproar with Windows Mobile as they will be doing away with all the old installation packages and there will be no upgrade path to Windows Mobile 7. Well we felt that we were [...]

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I find myself being obsessed with eBooks lately — probably because I’ve just entered the world. But while making my first steps, I keep discovering new and impressive feats. In the past, we’ve already talked about stripping Mobi and PRC files of their DRM protection (read: restriction), where to find free eBooks, and reviewed Calibre, [...]

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