Download Free Books for your Amazon Kindle


Amazon’s Kindle store has more than a million books that user can get and read on userr Kindle e-book reader.
Read Kindle Books without the Kindle Reader
If user don’t have the Kindle device (i.e., the hardware), user can still get any of these Kindle books and read them in userr web browser (read.amazon.com) without having to install any software. Amazon also offers reading apps for userr Windows PC, Mac, Android, iOS, etc. so user can enjoy userr favorite books on userr desktop computer, tablet or mobile phone without having to buy the Kindle Reader.

Find and Download Free Books for Kindle

While most eBooks available on the Amazon Kindle store are paid, here are some simple ways by which user can find and get free Kindle books for userr reading pleasure.

#1. Sources for Downloading Free Kindle Books

are some popular websites that offer a large collection of classics and public domain (copyright expired) books in standard formats like MOBI that user can easily transfer to userr Kindle over USB or Wi-Fi.
Google Books are available in ePUB format which is incompatible with the Kindle but user can use the free Calibre software to easily convert Google ebooks from .epub to .mobi, a format that Kindle can understand. Calibre does not however support conversion of DRM protected ePUB files to Kindle format.
Also, the Internet Archive website mirrors the free eBooks that have been scanned and digitized by the Google Books program and here they also offer the same title in MOBI format that user can read on userr Kindle without conversion.

#2. Find Free Kindle Books on Amazon

Amazon.com isn’t just a place to “buy” stuff, they free eBooks as well and unlike Google Books where user’ll mostly find public domain books, Amazon may sometimes even offer some of the newer ebooks as free gets. Here’s how user can discover free Kindle books on Amazon:
#2.1 Top 100 Best Sellers – This is like a Pinterest style listing of Kindle Best Sellers that are currently available for free and the deals are generally good for 2-3 days. You can also keep track of this list on Twitter (Zero Dollar Books) and get alerted when new Kindle title are added to the freebies list.
#2.2 Kindle Book Search – Add the Kindle search engine to userr web browser and user’ll be able to find free books on Amazon directly from userr browser’s search box. Alternatively, user may use the search box at hundredzeros.com to search Amazon for free Kindle books.
#2.3 Sort by Price – When user search for a Kindle book on Amazon.com, it displays search results by relevance.
If user change this default sort order from “Relevance” to “Price: Low to High”, user’ll get a list of all Kindle books that match userr search keywords but are available for $0.00 (see the above screenshot).
#2.4 Popular Classics – This is an official listing of all ebooks that are available as free gets on the Amazon.com website. These are Public Domain Books that have been converted from print to digital format by Amazon.
#2.5 Listmania - This is another resource where user can discover Kindle books that are available for free.
Listmania Lists are basically a list of products compiled by Amazon users. You can use search phrases like “free kindle books”, “kindle freebie”, “penny kindle book”, etc. to discover lists that are built around free books user are looking for. For instance, here’s oneListmania List of classic books for Kindle that are absolutely free.

#3. Use Google to Find Free Kindle Books on Amazon

Here’s an unofficial method to help user find Kindle books that are available for free on Amazon.com.
You can use the following search query in Google to search the Amazon store for free Kindle books – just replace the search-phrase in green with the name of the book, author, book category, etc.
intitle:kindle site:amazon.com "user save * (100%)" search-phrase
For instance, here’s a list of free Kindle books related to Abraham Lincoln while here’s a list of Kindle books on Shakespeare that are again free.

#4. RSS Feeds for Free Kindle Books

Here are some RSS feeds that user can subscribe to and get alerts when new titles are available:

Kindle eBook Pricing for International users

If the price of a Kindle book is mentioned as $0.00 on the Amazon Store, it may sometimes show up as $2.00 if the country associated with userr Kindle account is not United States. This happens because Amazon charges a $2 roaming fee for “international gets”.
If that’s the case, user can either temporarily change userr Kindle country to US or transfer via computer and user may not be charged that extra $2 Whispernet fees.


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