The Free Book Challenge discussion

Just wondering where you all have found free books? Online website? Kindle? Nook? Ipad/Iphone? Church?

I have to say that ALL of my free books I have found through Amazon. I make it a point to check out their free books pretty much every day :)

What about you?

Barnes and Noble - NOOK
All Romance Ebooks
Smashwords

for free ARCs (for bloggers/reviewers)
Netgalley
Edelweiss

Overdrive - library lending

Smashwords
Amazon
Barnes and Noble
Maryse book blog; http://www.maryse.net/free-ebooks

Hi C,
I like the sound of this Booklending site. I am gonna take a look at this.
Thanks,
Donna

Thanks for all the great suggestions everyone! I am going to check out some of these sites right now!

Ok..I'm going through the books on Booklending and I am noticing that a lot of the books being lended are free through amazon. Is this typical for lendable books or do I need to keep searching deeper?

C wrote: "This list on goodreads has a whole lot of YA books that are still free on kindle now. I was just buying my way through the first 30 or so ... i>

Thank you for this! I will add the books that are still free to our "Currently FREE" list!

C wrote: "Donna - Do! They're pretty great :) Tell me what you think!

If it helps you decide which to use, I think I might give up on booklending.com and use lendle.me exclusively. It takes way too long t..."

I started a profile at Book Lending and am not really sure how it works yet. I have not looked into Lendle yet, but will in a few days. As much as I read it gets expensive!

Heather and C, thank you for the list of free books. I will be shopping tonight after trick or treating with the kids. Looking forward to it even!

Personally I like to visit a few sites when hunting for freebies:
eReaderIQ.com, Updated everyday.
booksonboard.com
booksontheknob.org,non-public domain, non-"sample", non-"indie"
hundredzeros.com, Amazon based 'best-sellers'

I just follow Val's postings on SOS, she makes it so easy... :))

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/4...

She goes to all the trouble of finding, screening and posting the best choices. With her help I've accumulated over 300 freebies in less than a year for my kindle. Thx Val you are my freebie enabler...

I LOVE bookbub.com. I have gottten so many free books from them and they have new ones emailed everyday to look through.

I get most of my books free from authors for review purposes.
I also enjoy paperbackswap. I guess not entirely free. You get credits for sending your books to other people, and then you use those credits to "buy" books from others.

I visit the amazon.com free books frequently.

Love that my library offers some ebooks online and I've used Lendle and Booklending. . I've been able to borrow 2 books from Lendle.

At Booklending, I've had requests to borrow my books, but I haven't been able to borrow any of the books I've requested so far. I've mostly listed books that I got for free at amazon that are no longer free.

http://ereadernewstoday.com/more-barg...

and

http://www.indiesunlimited.com/

Indies Unlimited has a Thrifty Thursday for $0.99 E-Books and a "Free Friday" for free books.

I read on an Ipad, have for 2.5 years, (Ipad 1 and 3--Touch before that). I have Kindle, Nook, other apps for reading and read quite a lot of books from our NC digital library. I found the 'free books and chat' on Kindle/Amazon forums (wish they did books a lot more than chat LOL), Kindle Nation, Ebooks, check out the lists in the Kindle site, very occasionally find something on Smashwords. There are quite a lot of places that post some of the Amazon free books every day, I'm too lazy to go through the now really extensive free lists--not sure I didn't prefer it when we only had 10-12 books a day on Kindle LOL.

I don't have a Kindle & won't get one - I don't like 900lb gorillas. I have an old Sony & avoid anything with DRM on it. I still find plenty of free books & some of the best find me since new authors here on GR ask for people to read & review. Last year, I read a couple of dozen that way, although only a handful got public reviews. I won't post a bad review for a new author, so only those I can give them 4 stars or better show up as even being read.

Project Gutenberg, gutenberg.org & gutenberg.net.au are great sources for free books. Many of my favorite authors like Edgar Rice Burroughs & Robert E. Howard are on one of the other, sometimes both. I just got South Sea Tales by Jack London the other day.

The Internet Archive, archive.org, & the local library are also great resources, although I seem to use the latter more for audio books. I've also found quite a few good ones on Smashwords.com.

Hola, Jim. I happen to like my 900 lbs Gorilla (Kindle)... I call it "Bob" and feed it regularly...backwards or forewards it still spells "bob".

Welcome, glad to see you here.

It's not the Kindle I object to, but the company behind it needs more competition in the book arena. I'm sure the device is fine. Sounds like it's one of the best.

Jim wrote: "It's not the Kindle I object to, but the company behind it needs more competition in the book arena. I'm sure the device is fine. Sounds like it's one of the best."

I like the idea of competition for Kindle. I'm betting Apple will be the next to come out with a book reader. The Nook is currently the only competition technology wise, but, for what ever reason, B&N hasn't seen the explosion that Amazon has.

I'm privately rooting for independent havens like Smashwords to keep growing and gaining momentum. Nothing like a free an independent press.

I'd keep an eye on google, but right now it looks too much like amazon and google are out measuring appartments to get in bed together. Google also works differently with success. Having said that, the Google Play network they are building has a lot of potential to be many things to many people in the electronic world of books and entertainment media and social media. They just need word to get out.

Amazon is like Star Trek TNG's Borg...sucking everything up and making it compatable..."you will be assimilated, resistance is futile." But then, that's what Microsoft became and other people (apple/google etc.) found a foothold and built up a fair sized market share anyway.

As an IT guy, I'm constantly held hostage by Microsoft, hence my comment. I've seen it grow into a very scary, practical monopoly in the past 25 years. A small business like ours really doesn't have any alternatives. Most of our main software doesn't run on anything else & if we tried a mixed environment, we'd need to triple the staff & spend a ton in training. We really can't afford that at the best of times & now isn't.

I get my free books from several places:
http://www.amazon.com/FREE-KINDLE-BOO...

Smashwords.com
http://www.smashwords.com/books/categ...

Free Nook books
iBooks (but there are not as many here)
The Library!!