The Kindle Reader is awesome. Not only from a technological standpoint, but in terms of the titles available for it. In addition to 775,000 paid titles, Kindle boasts more than 1.8 million free titles. Now I was a bit skeptical about the free stuff. Sure, paid New York Times best sellers were one thing, but how good could the Kindle free books be? I decided to investigate. Was I surprised! A casual perusal of just the first 10 pages of free titles on Amazon yielded some amazing results. It was all there...everything from classics to cookbooks! The break down went something like this.
In the area of classic literature I found some true gems. Included were The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, and Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson to name just some.
Are biographies more your thing? I found some really great stuff there as well. How about, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin, or Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself by Harriet Ann Jacobs, or maybe The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete by Leonardo da Vinci, or The Life of Abraham Lincoln by Henry Ketcham, or possibly Cleopatra by Henry Rider Haggard.
I kept going. Remember these results came from only the first 10 pages of listings. Children's books abound. Everything from Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know by Hamilton Wright Mabie to Aesop's Fables; A New Translation by Aesop. Or maybe your kids would enjoy Grimm's Fairy Stories by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm, or the all time classic The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling.
Maybe you're into games. In the first 10 pages I found Blackjack (A Free Game for Kindle) by Amazon Digital Services. (There are several other free games on pages deeper in the listings...just so you know, but we're investigating the first ten pages remember?)
I also found a couple of handy reference books including 25 Language Phrasebook: German, French, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, Italian, Greek, Danish, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Czech, Polish, Hungarian,... Chinese, Indonesian, Malay, and Thai. by Mobile Reference. Also of note was FREE Weights and Measures Study Guide: Conversion of over 1,000 units including Length, Area, Volume, Speed, Force, Energy, Electricity, Viscosity, Temperature, & more by Mobile Reference and mobi..
And then there were the books that changed the world. Titles such as The Holy Bible English Standard Version (ESV) by Crossway Bibles, or Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. And from early American history, there was Common Sense by Thomas Paine.
If you're interested in science there are some classics such as, On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin, or if you're feeling really intelligent on a given day there is The Einstein Theory of Relativity by H.A. Lorent.
I finished my search with a cookbook. Circle of Friends Cookbook - 25 Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipes: Exclusive on-line cookbook by Gooseberry Patch.
I don't know about you, but I can't imagine a better way to spend an afternoon than with a good book and a freshly baked plate of chocolate chip cookies. In short, I found so much good stuff that I couldn't stop looking! And, all for free! Simply download it to your Kindle WiFi or Kindle wireless. What could be easier...or cheaper?
If you are thinking of purchasing the Kindle Reader, make sure you click the link. There is a very extensive review there of the new Kindle 3G WiFi Reader and many of the accessories available. I have included some pictures and a video as well as user reviews, so you can see just how awesome the Kindle is!
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