How to find free or cheap kindle books on your own? Here are some sites that can help on saving a ton on the cost of Kindle eBooks. There are lots of free and cheap kindle books if you know where to look. Here are some resources you can try on your own.
Looking for kindle ebooks from Amazon
My Kindle Book List (KBL) blog and twitter handle (@KindleList) offer variety and focus on cheap non-fictions to help with choice paralysis, all the while offering a simple interface that's quick to load on whatever devices you are on. But sometimes you just want choices! So here!
Cheap books
Kindle Monthly Deals: https://amzn.to/3idwbIM
You can filter these deals by many genres, including mystery & thrillers, literature & fiction, romance, science fiction & fantasy, biographies & memoirs, teen & young adult, religion & spirituality, and business & money. You can also filter by average customer reviews.
In that same page, you can find other types of Kindle deals from Amazon, including:
- Kindle Daily Deals: https://amzn.to/3aauzNi
- Kindle Exclusive Deals: https://amzn.to/2Xzd5oy
- Kindle Countdown Deals: https://amzn.to/3ihPukd
Amazon First Reads: https://amzn.to/2Pu0FK7
Early access books picked by editors. As of the writing of this post, you can choose one book each month for $1.99. Genre varies. For example, I am seeing a children's picture book and a psychological suspense novel being offered right now.
Free books
Amazon's Free Books and Low Priced Reading Options: https://amzn.to/3kmj61A
This is a mix of free and cheap popular classes kindle ebooks on Amazon. Again, you can filter by customer review ratings. See the screenshot below, it shows classics most like A Tale of Two Cities and David Copperfield. Don't worry, it has more than just Charles Dickens books. For example, it seems to have the Arabic edition of a book by Dale Carnegie, دع القلق وإبدأ الحياة.
AmazonClassics Edition: https://amzn.to/30BR1f9
Some free Amazon Kindle books are grouped under the umbrella of "AmazonClassics Edition". You can search for them using AmazonClassics as a keyword. A lot of literature that you were forced to read as a high school senior is here.
Search "free nonfiction books kindle": https://amzn.to/31rphc8
Somewhat of a surprise, if you use "free nonfiction books kindle" as search words, you also get some free or cheap book results.
Looking for Kindle ebooks elsewhere
Cheap books
The site has a large community of readers with blog posts on books suggestions and whatnot. Among them, there are the occasion lists of cheap kindle reads rated by its own members. I linked one such list above, and you can find more cheap book lists here.For the most part though, the site is geared toward a book reading community and not for finding good book deals.
Looking for non-Kindle ebooks elsewhere
The thing with the non-Kindle ebooks is that you often can convert it and load it on your Kindle device. If your kindle device has a web browser (or are on your computer), some of these sites lets you read the book directly through that instead.
Various free book websites provide instructions to load your book onto your Kindle devices. Here are some of these pages.
Free non-Kindle books
Archives.org's American Libraries : https://archive.org/details/americana
There are a lot of books here that you can read directly from the website. From the site itself: "Internet Archive offers over 20,000,000 freely downloadable books and texts." If you have a kindle device with a web browser, that is one way to read these books. You should also check out the top level website at https://archive.org because they have a lot of other free resources in addition to books. Another site, https://openlibrary.org, works closely with Archives.org.
Here's an example, for "Goody Two Shoes": https://archive.org/details/goodytwoshoes00newyiala/page/n1/mode/2up
Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/
Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. Do note that the "Kindle" books on the site are in "kindle format" that you will need to copy or email to your device, but more often there are plain text and epub versions as well. This is the result page for The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas -- a personal favorite along with The Great Gatsby.
Overdrive: https://www.overdrive.com/
US public libraries often have ebooks available to borrow. The upside here is that there are new pricy books that you normally won't be able to read for free. The downside here is that the library is lending out physical copies purchased electronically to comply with copyright laws, and that means any new pricy book often has a long wait list before you can read it. You will also need a library card from your local library to use this.
Open Culture: http://www.openculture.com/free_ebooks
There are various free resources linked from the Open Culture website -- including free eBooks, free audio books, and free online courses. I would suggest browsing the site, follow the free eBook links, and avail yourself of other sites that offer free eBooks.
Many Book: https://manybooks.net
The site is similar to Project Gutenberg. As an example, here is Thomas Paine's The Age of Reason. You need to register for an account to download, but viewing the books directly online via the site does not.