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Your Kindle isn't just restricted to reading books from Amazon. Here's how to convert various other ebooks formats for the Kindle, and where to get free ebooks. Your Kindle isn't just restricted to reading books from Amazon. Here's how to convert various other ebooks formats for the Kindle, and where to get free ebooks. Kindle eBooks Store. The Amazon.com Kindle Store offers a vast selection of Kindle eBooks so you can indulge in your love of reading. Escape to another world in a.

The Future of Consumerist Over the last twelve years, Consumerist has been a steadfast proponent and voice on behalf of consumers, from exposing shady practices by secretive cable companies to pushing for action against dodgy payday lenders. Now, we’re joining forces with Consumer Reports, our parent organization, to cultivate the next generation of consumer advocacy.

Stay tuned as Consumerist’s current and future content finds its home as a part of the Consumer Reports brand. In the meantime, you can access existing Consumerist content below, and we encourage you to visit to read the latest consumer news. 7.20.09 2:02 PM EST By cwalters So you’ve got a Kindle, and you have books on it, and you want to keep those books—no matter what decides you deserve in the future. Your legal options are limited, but you do have some. First of all, don’t believe the old fogeys who pour haterade all over ebooks whenever Amazon does something stupid with the Kindle. Yes, Amazon just flipped a giant, cloud-computed middle finger at its customers, and wiped away any sense of trust that the company either knows what it’s doing or respects the privacy of customers—but that doesn’t mean ebooks are a bad idea. The ability to carry a virtual library of titles in a single book-sized device (or on a phone or netbook) carries all sorts of benefits that traditional print does not.

The Kindle, however, is proving to be a rotten deal for customers. Not only do you lose the right of first sale, but it turns out even the idea that your license gives you the promised “permanent” access is false. Last week’s Orwell stunt by Amazon is almost certainly not the last time the company will swoop in and manipulate your content, regardless of any promises it churns out in an attempt at damage control. Here, then, is the best and easiest way to get non-Amazon, public domain ebooks on your Kindle: Feedbooks: the open source alternative to the Amazon Kindle Store If you don’t already use Feedbooks, you’re denying yourself access to what amounts to the free, open-source version of the Amazon Kindle store. On the down side, it won’t have the Twilight books; but on the plus side, it won’t have those Twilight books. To participate, go to Feedbooks and download the Kindle-formatted catalogue. You do this directly on the device via the built-in browser or you can download it to your PC and copy it over via USB cable.

Now you’re ready to “shop” for free, legal copies of ebooks. Make sure your wireless is turned on, then open the catalog like you would any ebook and browse through the available titles. When you find something you want, select it; you’ll be taken to a download page on the device’s built-in browser, and if you accept the download, the book will automatically be loaded onto your Kindle. It’s just like using the Amazon store, only free! A lot of public domain works are also available on the Amazon Store, some even offered by Amazon for free.

But when you download from Feedbooks you get a copy that will always be yours. When you download those books from Amazon you’re just purchasing a license that can (obviously) be revoked without warning. We recommend you use Feedbooks. If you can’t find it on Feedbooks, try Project Gutenberg. Any file offered in MOBI or Plain Text is a perfect format for the Kindle; other formats—HTML, for example—will require conversion first (see below). Unfortunately, unlike Feedbooks you’ll have to download the files first to your PC and then copy them over to the Kindle via USB cable.

(As a bonus, you can read books from these sites on pretty much any device, including mobile phones and netbooks.) Converting incompatible formats to Kindle-friendly formats What if you have digital copies of books that you want to read on the Kindle, but they won’t display in their current format? Try installing Calibre or Stanza on your PC/Mac. Calibre is the golden child right now, but I’ve also had success with conversions using the desktop version of Stanza in the past.

You should know, however, that Amazon now owns Stanza—so if you’re looking to go Amazon-free stick with Calibre, which remains independent as of July 2009. Futureproofing your purchases “But what about the books I bought from Amazon?” you ask.

“How do I make sure Amazon doesn’t remove any in the future?” Technically, you can’t. You don’t have the rights to protect yourself under Amazon’s licensing agreement, congratulations. Speaking practically, though, you’ve got two options. The first is an illegal hack to remove DRM. The second option is this: 1. Every time you buy a book from Amazon, download it to your PC and save it as a backup copy.

You’re allowed to do this. You should also be backing up the text file on your device that stores all of your notes and highlights, just in case. Now if Amazon removes a title in the future, you still have a backup copy. University of Auckland. You should always do this with anything stored in the cloud anyway.

You can’t seriously believe that cloud storage is a secure, permanent solution for your backup needs—it isn’t, and it will come back to haunt you if you don’t protect yourself with your own backups in multiple locations. Keep your Kindle’s wireless connection turned off unless you need it. This will somewhat reduce your participation in Amazon’s cloud storage system, and increase the odds that should Amazon do something stupid in the future, you’ll have some advance warning from other users’ tweets and posts if not from Amazon itself. Remember, though, that thanks to Amazon’s DRM implementation, any backup copy will only work on that single Kindle device. When you stop using that particular device, you lose access to that file too if it’s no longer stored on Amazon’s servers. Your only route at that point will be to resort to something illegal, or to start over and buy a new license.

Is it really likely that Amazon is going to go all 1984 on other books in your Kindle library? No, but that doesn’t mean you can’t look beyond Amazon for your ebook fix. Over the past few months, Amazon has shown an increasing inability or unwillingness to have a transparent, fair licensing agreement for the ebooks it sells licenses to. If you’ve already invested money in a Kindle and want to make good use of the device, these are some ideas for look beyond Amazon when building your digital library.

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These free Kindle books for kids will encourage your kids to read more and will save you the money and time from going to the bookstore. You'll be surprised at all the free Kindle books for kids out there. Non-fiction and fiction books, from everything from animals to fairies. These free Kindle books are for all ranges of kids too, from toddlers all the way up to young adults.

Are you looking for even more books? I have a list of which will help you find a good book too. You'll also want to check out these lists of, and where you can. Sign-up through the to get free books for the kids that are mailed each month to your home.

In the summer, be sure to check out the where kids can often earn free books. Do you have a Nook instead of a Kindle?

Free Book Sites For Kindle

No worries, you can find lots of you can download too. Important: Please be aware that some of the free Kindle books for kids that you come across are only free for a limited time.

Before you download any free Kindle book double-check that the book is listed for $0.00 before you download it. The first place you should go to find free Kindle books for kids is Amazon. Nearly all of the websites in this list point you to Amazon's website, so visiting it directly will take you right to the source. The kids ebooks at Amazon are categorized in the Children's eBooks section, and there are plenty of subsections to help organize them, such as Animals, Sports & Outdoors, Comics & Graphic Novels, Early Learning, and Action & Adventure. The books listed at Amazon are the top 100 best sellers, and they're updated hourly. There may also be free books for kids in the Kindle Store's section.