Free Books Jan 2009--Post info about Free Books Here!

[CS]

I tried The Three Musketeers by Dumas. We'll see how it goes.

[Mollyb52]

I do not like this at all.  What a mess.   

[CS]

I tried The Three Musketeers by Dumas. We'll see how it goes.

Well, the formatting is okay - nothing special but readable. Unfortunately, the metadata is off. The author is listed as Dumas, the date, and some gibberish. I know I can fix that myself with Mobi2Mobi or possibly (haven't tried it yet) Calibre, but still.

[nickih75]

I know I shouldn't look a free book in the spine but OMG this is crazy!! I'm into over 20 pages of junk!!  If Amazon wants to add this much junk they should make it so we can jump ahead to different pages instead of just one at a time..

[Betsy the Quilter]

I clicked on the link already given and then specified four stars are up (on the left) and got these: 234 books

http://www.amazon.com/s/qid=1233233271/ref=sr_nr_p_72_0?ie=UTF8&rs=154606011&sort=daterank&bbn=154606011&rh=n%3A154606011%2Cp_36%3A0-0%2Cp_72%3A4-

Betsy

[MaureenH]

Too much junk in those freebies. My time is valuable too and I just not going to be reading that stuff.

[Gertie Kindle 'a/k/a Margaret Lake']

I clicked on the link already given and then specified four stars are up (on the left) and got these: 234 books

http://www.amazon.com/s/qid=1233233271/ref=sr_nr_p_72_0?ie=UTF8&rs=154606011&sort=daterank&bbn=154606011&rh=n%3A154606011%2Cp_36%3A0-0%2Cp_72%3A4-

Betsy

Thanks for that link, Betsy.  Thoreau, Sir Walter Scott, Rudyard Kipling.  There is wheat among the chaff.  I saw a couple that I'm going to pick up.

[Steph H]

On the Amazon boards, I guess it must be, they're saying this is mostly Project Gutenberg stuff; so in most cases, it's likely not really anything "new", just new to Amazon.  And available better formatted on Feedbooks, Manybooks, etc.

[Jen]

I prefer to grab these from manybooks, etc - this is really just going to make it harder to find the 'real' free books!

[auntmarge]

There are over 300 pages of this stuff.  As someone else said, makes it much harder to find the good free stuff.

[brn-eyed-girl81]

This is pretty annoying - going to make it much harder to find the real free books, the ones we would usually pay for.  As of now, there are 3,385, and you have to go to page 283 to get to the end if you sort by price.  And all of the Random House books that are still free are just mixed in the middle.  I wish all this junk was in some kind of different section.  Boo!

[mwvickers]

I clicked on the link already given and then specified four stars are up (on the left) and got these: 234 books

http://www.amazon.com/s/qid=1233233271/ref=sr_nr_p_72_0?ie=UTF8&rs=154606011&sort=daterank&bbn=154606011&rh=n%3A154606011%2Cp_36%3A0-0%2Cp_72%3A4-

Betsy

Can someone explain how to break the search down into "Kindle books>0-0>4 stars and up"?

Thanks.

[Steph H]

The free ebooks from Harlequin that were talked about a week or so ago are now available.  16 individual books (don't appear to be new, but only a few months old in at least some cases), AND they are available in mobipocket .prc format, not just PDF!   I'm at work so I can't actually download and move them to my Kindle right now to doublecheck them for sure, but it looks promising.

http://harlequincelebrates.com/

[CS]

The free ebooks from Harlequin that were talked about a week or so ago are now available.  16 individual books (don't appear to be new, but only a few months old in at least some cases), AND they are available in mobipocket .prc format, not just PDF!   I'm at work so I can't actually download and move them to my Kindle right now to doublecheck them for sure, but it looks promising.

http://harlequincelebrates.com/

Even though I'm not a Harlequin reader, I decided to grab these just for the heck of it in case I ever have anyone to give them to.

But has anyone had any luck opening the files?

I get this error message:



(Click HERE if you can't see the error message above.)

Any idea why that's happening?

[Chad Winters (#102)]

This is pretty annoying - going to make it much harder to find the real free books, the ones we would usually pay for.  As of now, there are 3,385, and you have to go to page 283 to get to the end if you sort by price.  And all of the Random House books that are still free are just mixed in the middle.  I wish all this junk was in some kind of different section.  Boo!

Well it was only a matter of time until spam reached the Kindle store...

[elbowglitter]

All this does is hurt the publishers who put out their books for free in order to get us into a series.  I know that I picked up a few of the free books and have put the next books in the series into my buying queue because I did enjoy the freebie so much!  It would be nice if these were separated out a bit.

[tlshaw *Padded Cell 511*]

The free ebooks from Harlequin that were talked about a week or so ago are now available.  16 individual books (don't appear to be new, but only a few months old in at least some cases), AND they are available in mobipocket .prc format, not just PDF!   I'm at work so I can't actually download and move them to my Kindle right now to doublecheck them for sure, but it looks promising.

Thanks forthe heads up. I just downloaded all of them.

http://harlequincelebrates.com/

[Lizzy]

Even though I'm not a Harlequin reader, I decided to grab these just for the heck of it in case I ever have anyone to give them to.

But has anyone had any luck opening the files?

I get this error message:



(Click HERE if you can't see the error message above.)

Any idea why that's happening?

I just downloaded the book and it came out okay using Firefox but i have had that happen before and i solved it by right clicking the link and choosing "Save Link As". If your using a different browser it should say something close to that.

[SongbirdVB]

I did get a bunch of the free books, but I agree that it's going to make it more difficult to find the new freebies.  Poo.

I also downloaded all of the Harlequin books, so THANKS!     I downloaded PDF so I could email them because I'm lazy...  Also because I can't download the reader here at work and didn't know if I could dl the books properly if I didn't have the reader.

[CS]

I just downloaded the book and it came out okay using Firefox but i have had that happen before and i solved it by right clicking the link and choosing "Save Link As". If your using a different browser it should say something close to that.

I do have Firefox. I'm not sure what went wrong.

I'm back at the website now, and it seems that all of the Mobipocket versions have been REMOVED.

Anyone else having that issue?

[Mikuto]

I didn't see any mobipocket versions myself, but I'm sending one of the PDFs to my Kindle to see if it's copy protected. I'll amend this post when/if it shows.

Shows up fine. Formatting is a little clustered, but it works.

[love2read]

Which is the the correct format to download the Harlequin books? My choices are pdf, ePub, eReader, MS Reader.  Which one is .prc?

The free ebooks from Harlequin that were talked about a week or so ago are now available.  16 individual books (don't appear to be new, but only a few months old in at least some cases), AND they are available in mobipocket .prc format, not just PDF!   I'm at work so I can't actually download and move them to my Kindle right now to doublecheck them for sure, but it looks promising.

http://harlequincelebrates.com/

[Steph H]

Dang, they sure did take the mobipocket versions off, didn't they. Wonder why.  Shoot, wish I'd gone ahead and d/l them here at work and emailed 'em to myself.

[koland]

The mobi versions were encrypted with DRM ... but no way to add your own PID, so they were completely unusable. I complained this morning; perhaps they are fixing them, since they are now missing.

[Steph H]

Ah, that could be it, koland.  Since they're supposed to be not only free, but available for sharing, then DRM would be a problem.  Hopefully they can be fixed, as opposed to never-coming-back in mobipocket format.  If not, then I guess PDF will be the way to go.  Thanks for letting us know that, and also for letting Harlequin know that!