Find out where you can get free ebooks and how to get free ebooks on your ereader, phone, or computer to read. 26 Places to Score Free Kindle E-Books. I have tried to publish a book permanently free on Amazon but I couldn't. I have seen many books on Kindle that seems to be permanently free. How do I publish a book. Free Kindle Books. From Project Gutenberg, the first producer of free ebooks. Where can you find and download free books for your Kindle through Amazon.com and other website that offer digital ebooks in Kindle format. PCMag reviews products, but we may earn affiliate commissions from buying links on this page.. The Amazon Kindle is a great, but it's tightly tied to Amazon's ecosystem. If you have a Fire tablet or a smartphone, you can download other e-reading apps to beef up your library, but with the E Ink Kindles (including the, the, and the ), you're pretty much tied to getting your content directly from Amazon. Well, sort of. Using a bit of free software, you can take ebooks in the EPUB, Mobi, and PDF formats and zap them over to your Kindle lickety-split. Here's how to do it. Email The easiest way to put books on your Kindle is to do it via email. To get your Kindle's email address, go to using your PC's Web browser. Tap on 'Your Devices,' then choose the relevant Kindle from the gallery below. Next to 'Email,' you'll find the Kindle's email address. Now click 'Settings' and scroll all the way down to the 'approved personal document e-mail list.' Click 'add a new approved e-mail address,' and add the email address you intend to send your books from. Remember, your Kindle needs to be attached to a Wi-Fi or 3G network for this to work. It doesn't have to be your home network, of course; you can go to a coffee shop or a public library, for instance. Mobi Format Good news: If your books are in the Mobi format, they're already readable by the Kindle. Attach the.mobi file to an email, send it to your Kindle's email address (with any subject, and no body in the email), and it should appear on your Kindle shortly. You can also drag and drop the file onto your Kindle if you attach the device to your PC with a USB cable. PDF Format Amazon can automatically convert PDFs into the Kindle format, but you get two formatting choices. If you want your Kindle to display every page in the PDF as if it were a graphic, just email the.pdf file to your Kindle's address without a subject line. That will maintain the formatting and graphics, but the font size may be too small to read. If you're OK with this kind of formatting, you can also drag and drop the file onto your Kindle if you attach the device to your PC with a USB cable. Your other option is to attach the.pdf file to an email, and make the subject line 'convert' —just that word. Send it to your Kindle email address and your PDF will be converted into a Mobi file, where you can control the font size and formatting. The graphics will still be in there as well, but you'll lose the layout of the original PDF. EPUB Format EPUB is a common ebook format around the Web, but the Kindle can't read it natively. That's OK; you can convert.epub files to Mobi files for the Kindle to read. The key is a free piece of software called. Calibre can reformat almost any kind of ebook for almost any ebook reader, although cracking the copy protection on books purchased from Amazon or certain other stores is forbidden. Once you set up Calibre, click on 'Add books,' and pick out the free ebook files you've downloaded. They'll appear in the Calibre library. Now click on an entry in your Calibre library and choose 'convert books' from the top bar. In the upper right hand corner, make sure the 'output format' is 'MOBI.' Click OK, and wait until the 'Jobs' number at the lower right of the main screen goes from 1 down to 0. Now select the title again and click 'Save to disk.' Pick the folder you want to save it in. It'll create a subfolder with the name of the author. In Explorer or Finder, drill into that folder until you find the juicy Mobi file within, which you can email to your Kindle or drag and drop onto it using a USB cable. So Where Do I Get Free Ebooks? There are lots of places to get. Calibre actually has a good 'get books' metasearch function, but you need to know exactly what you're looking for; it's not for browsing. If you belong to a U.S. Public library, try downloading the Overdrive Media Console. Available for both Windows and Mac PCs, it hooks into public library catalogs and lets you download Kindle books through Amazon. You can find your library's Overdrive Web site at, and the Overdrive. If you want classics, a great place to start is. Project Gutenberg, which has been around basically as long as the Internet, has nearly 50,000 copyright-free ebooks. Has even more downloadable books; it also has a lending system that doesn't work with Kindles. For historical and academic texts, check out. Has about 2,500 more recent free books available, and they're even mostly in Mobi format. Mixes classics and self-published titles, with around 30,000 in its library. You'll find more classics and self-published works. There's also, but frankly, the stuff up there looks really awful. (Not dishonest or anything, just bad books.) If you like science fiction, the publisher also has a set of free ebooks. Some bookstores use copy protection that doesn't work with Kindles. Unfortunately, that's the case for Google Books, Kobo, and Barnes & Noble. Also, remember, text files and Word documents can be emailed to your Kindle, too! Just send them to your Kindle's email address and enjoy. PCMag.com's lead mobile analyst, Sascha Segan, has reviewed hundreds of smartphones, tablets and other gadgets in more than 13 years with PCMag. He's the head of our Fastest Mobile Networks project, hosts our One Cool Thing daily Web show, and writes opinions on tech and society. Segan is also a multiple award-winning travel writer. Other than his home town of New York, his favorite cities are Barcelona and Hong Kong. While he's a fourth-generation Manhattanite, he now lives in Queens with his wife and daughter. How to borrow and deliver Kindle Books • Open your library's digital collection (you can find it using ). • Find a Kindle Book to borrow. You can easily see all of your library's Kindle Books by selecting the Kindle Books link near the top of the site (or under on mobile devices). Note: You may want to before you borrow it (this is most common for picture books, read-alongs, and graphic novels). • Select Borrow. If prompted,. • Select to go to your Loans page. From there, select Read now with Kindle. You'll be taken to Amazon's website to complete checkout and send the eBook to your Kindle device or reading app. If you're already signed into Amazon, continue to step 5. If you're not signed into Amazon, skip to step 6. • If you're signed into Amazon, select a device or reading app from the 'Deliver to:' drop-down menu, then select Get library book. The book will be sent to your Kindle device or reading app. Note: You must complete this step for the book you borrowed to appear in the 'Your Content and Devices' list in your Amazon account. If the book does not appear in this list, you won't be able to download it on any device. • If you're not already signed into Amazon, select Get library book. You'll be prompted to sign in. After you sign in, choose the device or reading app where you'd like to send the book you borrowed, then select Continue. The book will be sent to your Kindle device or reading app. Note: You must complete this step for the book you borrowed to appear in the 'Your Content and Devices' list in your Amazon account. If the book does not appear in this list, you won't be able to download it on any device. Your Kindle eReader must have a Wi-Fi internet connection to download library Kindle Books from Amazon. If you don't have a Wi-Fi connection, you'll need to. Once a book is on your Kindle device or reading app, you can open it from your device or app's home screen and read it just like any other Kindle Book. For specific help reading on your device (like how to change the font or save a bookmark), visit. If you want to read the eBook on a different Kindle device or app, you can deliver it again from Amazon's website during the lending period. How to borrow and deliver Kindle Books • Open your library's digital collection (you can find it using ). • Find a Kindle Book to borrow. You can: • Tap or mouse over a title, then select more to go to the title's details page. The details page lists the formats available for that title, including Kindle Book (if available). Note: Some Kindle Books from your library (including many picture books, read-alongs, and graphic novels) are not supported on certain Kindle devices or reading apps. To check if an eBook has Kindle device or app restrictions, look for a Device restrictions link under 'Available formats.' • Run a search or open a collection, then select Kindle Book under the 'Format' filter. • Use the and choose Kindle Book in the 'All formats' drop-down menu. • Once you find an available Kindle Book, select Borrow. If prompted, sign in. • Find the eBook you've borrowed on your Checkouts page (under your Account). From there, select Read now with Kindle. You'll be taken to Amazon's website to complete checkout and send the eBook to your Kindle device or reading app. If you're already signed into Amazon, continue to step 5. If you're not signed into Amazon, skip to step 6. • If you're signed into Amazon, choose a device or reading app from the 'Deliver to:' drop-down menu, then select Get library book. The book will be sent to your Kindle device or reading app. Note: You must complete this step for the book you borrowed to appear in the 'Your Content and Devices' list in your Amazon account. If the book does not appear in this list, you won't be able to download it on any device. • If you're not already signed into Amazon, select Get library book. You'll be prompted to sign in. After you sign in, choose the device or reading app where you'd like to send the book you borrowed, then select Continue. The book will be sent to your Kindle device or reading app. Note: You must complete this step for the book you borrowed to appear in the 'Your Content and Devices' list in your Amazon account. If the library book does not appear in this list, you won't be able to download it on any device. Your Kindle eReader must have a Wi-Fi internet connection to download library Kindle Books from Amazon. If you don't have a Wi-Fi connection, you'll need to. Once a book is on your Kindle device or reading app, you can open it from your device or app's home screen and read it just like any other Kindle Book. For specific help reading on your device (like how to change the font or save a bookmark), visit. If you want to read the eBook on a different Kindle device or app, you can deliver it again from Amazon's website during the lending period. How to borrow and deliver Kindle Books • Open your library's digital collection (you can find it using ). • Find a Kindle Book to borrow. You can easily see all of your library's Kindle Books by selecting the Kindle Books link near the top of the site (or under on mobile devices). Note: You may want to before you borrow it (this is most common for picture books, read-alongs, and graphic novels). • Select Borrow. If prompted,. • Select to go to your Loans page. From there, select Read now with Kindle. You'll be taken to Amazon's website to complete checkout and send the eBook to your Kindle device or reading app. If you're already signed into Amazon, continue to step 5. If you're not signed into Amazon, skip to step 6. • If you're signed into Amazon, select a device or reading app from the 'Deliver to:' drop-down menu, then select Get library book. The book will be sent to your Kindle device or reading app. Note: You must complete this step for the book you borrowed to appear in the 'Your Content and Devices' list in your Amazon account. If the book does not appear in this list, you won't be able to download it on any device. • If you're not already signed into Amazon, select Get library book. You'll be prompted to sign in. After you sign in, choose the device or reading app where you'd like to send the book you borrowed, then select Continue. The book will be sent to your Kindle device or reading app. Note: You must complete this step for the book you borrowed to appear in the 'Your Content and Devices' list in your Amazon account. If the book does not appear in this list, you won't be able to download it on any device. Your Kindle eReader must have a Wi-Fi internet connection to download library Kindle Books from Amazon. If you don't have a Wi-Fi connection, you'll need to. Once a book is on your Kindle device or reading app, you can open it from your device or app's home screen and read it just like any other Kindle Book. For specific help reading on your device (like how to change the font or save a bookmark), visit. If you want to read the eBook on a different Kindle device or app, you can deliver it again from Amazon's website during the lending period. How to borrow and deliver Kindle Books • Open your library's digital collection (you can find it using ). • Find a Kindle Book to borrow. You can: • Tap or mouse over a title, then select more to go to the title's details page. The details page lists the formats available for that title, including Kindle Book (if available). Note: Some Kindle Books from your library (including many picture books, read-alongs, and graphic novels) are not supported on certain Kindle devices or reading apps. To check if an eBook has Kindle device or app restrictions, look for a Device restrictions link under 'Available formats.' • Run a search or open a collection, then select Kindle Book under the 'Format' filter. • Use the and choose Kindle Book in the 'All formats' drop-down menu. • Once you find an available Kindle Book, select Borrow. If prompted, sign in. • Find the eBook you've borrowed on your Checkouts page (under your Account). From there, select Read now with Kindle. You'll be taken to Amazon's website to complete checkout and send the eBook to your Kindle device or reading app. If you're already signed into Amazon, continue to step 5. If you're not signed into Amazon, skip to step 6. • If you're signed into Amazon, choose a device or reading app from the 'Deliver to:' drop-down menu, then select Get library book. The book will be sent to your Kindle device or reading app. Note: You must complete this step for the book you borrowed to appear in the 'Your Content and Devices' list in your Amazon account. If the book does not appear in this list, you won't be able to download it on any device. • If you're not already signed into Amazon, select Get library book. You'll be prompted to sign in. After you sign in, choose the device or reading app where you'd like to send the book you borrowed, then select Continue. The book will be sent to your Kindle device or reading app. Note: You must complete this step for the book you borrowed to appear in the 'Your Content and Devices' list in your Amazon account. If the library book does not appear in this list, you won't be able to download it on any device. Your Kindle eReader must have a Wi-Fi internet connection to download library Kindle Books from Amazon. If you don't have a Wi-Fi connection, you'll need to. Once a book is on your Kindle device or reading app, you can open it from your device or app's home screen and read it just like any other Kindle Book. For specific help reading on your device (like how to change the font or save a bookmark), visit. If you want to read the eBook on a different Kindle device or app, you can deliver it again from Amazon's website during the lending period.
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