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Just got a Kindle for Christmas, and been trawling through the "free" section of Amazon (only 4,835 books to choose from...) - any recommendations for that? And are there any other places I could buy e-books for the Kindle from?
How did you find the kindle, Willows21? Is it a good replacement of paper books?
The Amazon 'Free' section is dizzying, isn't it? You start to get book-blindness after a while... I love that it's a great place to snag some of those out-of-copyright books you've always wanted to read though - I got four of the "What Katy Did" books I read as a kid which was both surprising and nice. I think I saw some Jane Austens there too.
I'm not sure about other places you can buy Kindle books from - I know you can only download them wirelessly to Kindle from Amazon - but you might want to look up Project Gutenberg, which has free out-of-copyright books you can download and copy across to your Kindle with the USB cable. I've started trying to teach myself Latin with a book I found there.
Lots of things to choose from there too!
I'm not sure about other places you can buy Kindle books from - I know you can only download them wirelessly to Kindle from Amazon - but you might want to look up Project Gutenberg, which has free out-of-copyright books you can download and copy across to your Kindle with the USB cable. I've started trying to teach myself Latin with a book I found there.
Lots of things to choose from there too!
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I'm not sure about other places you can buy Kindle books from - I know you can only download them wirelessly to Kindle from Amazon - but you might want to look up Project Gutenberg, which has free out-of-copyright books you can download and copy across to your Kindle with the USB cable.
Can you do that once you've registered your Kindle?
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Can you do that once you've registered your Kindle?
Yes, you can.
I've actually had a hard time convincing mine that I DON'T want to copy data across, I just want to charge it! I've never pirated ebooks so I don't know if that would have any issues, but the Gutenberg books all work fine - most of their books have an option to download in a Kindle-compatible format too. I'm reading a couple of them right now. 
Thanks everyone, I think I'll actually dig it out again - I did download a few "free and old" books off the Amazon site, but still find I'm more drawn to my "real books" - might change when I go on holiday with it
I've yet to explore the world of the Kindle!! But a good author to read is Charles Dickins and Emily Bronte. The classics aren't called classics for no reason! You don't necessarily have to choose "Great Expectations": you could choose "Pictures Of London" or "The Bleak Old Shop Of Stuff". You could even attempt to read "War and Peace" and "Crime Or Punishment". It's up to you!
Thanks CyberCandyGirlUK - will look out for those - and I love Dickens, too
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