All About Books discussion

Great Cindy! Thanks a lot

Here are a couple that I use:

Feedbooks (has both free & paid ebooks): http://www.feedbooks.com/publicdomain

Girlebooks (has both free & paid ebooks written by women): http://girlebooks.com/ebook-catalog/t...

Manybooks (has a few books the Project Gutenberg doesn't):
http://manybooks.net/

There's also Instafreebie! I found out about them on Twitter and I've downloaded over 100 free ebooks from there.

(I tweet about the Instafreebie books I read at: www.Twitter.com/MarriedToBooks3)

So, can you upload them to your computer and then sideload them into a kindle? I get headaches from wifi, and can no longer add books to my kindle due to no more sideloading (I did NOT steal them or give them to others, just bought them for ME to read. Arrrgh!

Karin wrote: "So, can you upload them to your computer and then sideload them into a kindle? I get headaches from wifi, and can no longer add books to my kindle due to no more sideloading (I did NOT steal them o..."

?? I can still download and transfer books to my Kindle but I have a quite old Kindle Keyboard. Do the newer versions not allow that?

Leslie wrote: "Karin wrote: "So, can you upload them to your computer and then sideload them into a kindle? I get headaches from wifi, and can no longer add books to my kindle due to no more sideloading (I did NO..."

My kindle can ONLY download via wifi, but wifi gives me headaches so I don't have it and keep my kindle on airplane mode. Therefore I was downloading my Kindle books to my PC and then sideloading them onto my Kindle via usb cable, but due to stealing they figured out a way to prevent it from being done, so mine is useless. I have to use the one with NO light in it, so can't get the super fancy one that you can download via usb cable. This is the same thing with Nook, now, too and someone gave me a Nook I could have bought books for, too (no lighting in it.)

SO, I want to know if I download free ebooks to my PC, can I then "sideload" them onto my Kindle or Nook.

Karin wrote: "Leslie wrote: "Karin wrote: "So, can you upload them to your computer and then sideload them into a kindle? I get headaches from wifi, and can no longer add books to my kindle due to no more sidelo..."

Downloading via wi-fi last only a few seconds. Do you have headache also if you activate the wi-fi for a short moment? I activate it only when I buy books and the download is really very fast.

Karin wrote: "Leslie wrote: "Karin wrote: "So, can you upload them to your computer and then sideload them into a kindle? I get headaches from wifi, and can no longer add books to my kindle due to no more sidelo..."

Which model do you have? My dad's Kindle (much newer than mine) still allows downloading to the computer and transferring via USB cable. It doesn't have an internal light so it may be the same model you have. But when I got a book for him, if I wanted to use the computer it is more complex than mine. I have to go to the "Content and devices" page of his Amazon account on the website, select the book I want, click on the Actions button (which shows "..." & is to the immediate right of the selection box) and select the "Download and transfer by USB" option.

Leslie wrote: "Karin wrote: "Leslie wrote: "Karin wrote: "So, can you upload them to your computer and then sideload them into a kindle? I get headaches from wifi, and can no longer add books to my kindle due to ..."

No, mine does NOT. It's a kindle with NO lighting, but it was designed to be wifi only. However, someone showed me how to sideload books I downloaded to my PC with the usb cable that I can use for charging it with (one of the 2 ways to charge it), BUT during this year Amazon changed their software to prevent that. I realize some people were cheating, but it makes it hard for the rest of us. I did read about a half a dozen books on it before that happened, but am not pleased that it is now useless.