Kindle Book Club - especially free library books

So yesterday I was walking home from the library with a couple new books for my upcoming europe trip and I decided it makes no sense to have these big ass things in my backpack. I didn't think I would like the Kindle but decided to give it a shot because of this.

Fast forward to today...I now have a kindle and now I realize the books I originally wanted are either not in kindle form or checked out. I was hoping to use this thread to get recommendations for other books to download/read, especially if I can get them through the library.

Ideas?

Water for elephants was a great book I really enjoyed, and is available on Kindle.

My wife is reading a book called Gone Girl, and claims to love it. As soon as shes done with it, I will import it into my phone via Kindle app.

What kind of books do you like?

My recommendations, and I would assume they are available on Kindle:
Lonesome Dove
Killer Angels
The Car by Gary Paulsen
LOTR and Hobbit
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harry Potter
Things They Carried

There are also some fascinating reads for free in the self-publishing arenas, like Smashwords.com and feedbooks.com. Most are available in kindle format.

if you are up for some classics you can read TONS for free http://www.gutenberg.org/

so what model kindle did you end up with?... i've got kindle touch with the kindle cover that has the built in light.... i LOVE it... i'd love to move to the new paperwhite but can't justify the cost :-/

4cylndrfury wrote: Water for elephants was a great book I really enjoyed, and is available on Kindle. My wife is reading a book called Gone Girl, and claims to love it. As soon as shes done with it, I will import it into my phone via Kindle app.

Thanks, just downloaded water for elephants.

So far I have a couple travel guides uploaded, some Dean Koontz and James Patterson.

Not really sure what I like. Anything suspenseful, enlightening, humorous, travel related, sports related, auto biographies, etc.

Willing to try anything.

mtn wrote: My recommendations, and I would assume they are available on Kindle: *Lonesome Dove* *Killer Angels* *The Car* by Gary Paulsen *LOTR* and *Hobbit* *To Kill a Mockingbird* *Harry Potter* *Things They Carried*

Thanks, looking into these now

donalson wrote: if you are up for some classics you can read TONS for free http://www.gutenberg.org/ so what model kindle did you end up with?... i've got kindle touch with the kindle cover that has the built in light.... i LOVE it... i'd love to move to the new paperwhite but can't justify the cost :-/

I was about to buy the $69 one off Amazon when my coworker mentioned he had one he could sell me for $45.

donalson wrote: if you are up for some classics you can read TONS for free http://www.gutenberg.org/

How do I get these on my kindle?

Check out http://www.bookblast.co/index.php and http://www.bookgorilla.com/home

Just thought of one:
Driving Like Crazy: Thirty Years of Vehicular Hell-bending, Celebrating America the Way It's Supposed To Be -- With an Oil Well in Every Backyard, a Cadillac Escalade in Every Carport, and the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Mowing Our Lawn by PJ O'Rourke. Absolutely hilarious.

Check out the Kindle lending library (I think that might only be available if you have Amazon Prime, though). Only one book a month but I've borrowed a couple of books that way which I kinda wanted to read but not bad enough to open the wallet wide.

for the free stuff sometimes you need to use a program like calibre to convert to a compatable format for the kindle... has a bit of a learning curve.

amazon also has TONS of free books...

the kindle lending library is pretty neat, my wife used it while we had amazon prime... also you can barrow books from friends which is pretty neat.

many local libraries have a kindle loaner program thing... I know mine does

And http://www.pixelofink.com/

If you haven't read Dan Brown's books those are really good, I just read the latest one Inferno in 3 days.

And depending on where you are in Europe you may be able to visit some of the places in the book. He does a lot of research prior to writing the book and he uses real places you can visit.

4cylndrfury wrote: Water for elephants was a great book I really enjoyed, and is available on Kindle. My wife is reading a book called Gone Girl, and claims to love it. As soon as shes done with it, I will import it into my phone via Kindle app.

My wife read both of those books recently on our kindle. Absolutely loved both of them. Couldn't put the kindle down.

Dick Francis books will fit your likes. I just finished one five minutes ago.

In fact I don't like the project Gutenberg, yes they are all classical, but I am not that into those "boring" classicals.

I subscribed 10+ sites which colletct legal free Kindle books in my feeds, visit them once a week and pick out 2-3 books I love. Maybe fantasy, romantic, horror or comedy.

FYI, I get all my feeds from this list, it contains more than sixty sites to download the free books for Kindle.

If you do a google search for "([title of book] free PDF) you can usually get it for free.

RossiTheBest wrote: In fact I don't like the project Gutenberg, yes they are all classical, but I am not that into those "boring" classicals.

A lot of Jules Verne is interesting. HG Wells, too.

I reread Huck Finn every few years. It should be free, since its over 50 years old.

Go like hell by A.J. Baime

Mmadness wrote: If you do a google search for "([title of book] free PDF) you can usually get it for free.

yup not difficult to find... but it sucks to read on an e-ink reader and barely tolerable on a 7" tablet... this next semester I've got a few books that are "ebooks" in PDF format... you can convert them but in my experience the formatting is often screwed up... I'm considering buying a 10" tablet this next semester... or I might just print the dang thing out.

I read Emma Rose romance books, here's her website emmaroseromance.com

The "Silo" series of 3 books starts with "Wool," and it's very good. The author self-published them direct to e-reader format, so buy them. They're pretty cheap at $6 a piece, and they make very entertaining reads if you're into books like "Gone Girl."

Edit: dang it, zombie thread canoe!