Free ebooks

[rik_uk3]

As more and more of us use some sort of ebook reader we should also be aware that there are thousands of free ebooks to be had many of which tie in nicely with bushcraft

You can install kindle on your PC
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/kindle/pc/download

Android phone and tablets
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=165849822

Windows phone
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000623751 W8 also supported

If you go on the Amazon site and type free ebooks in the search box you'll find hundreds of books for nowt. All the classics are there, Dickens etc and its worth spending time looking at what's on offer, you won't do this in ten minutes.

There are other good sites that offer free ebooks

http://www.gutenberg.org/

http://guides.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks

http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/

A quick look gets things like
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Book-Household-Management-ebook/dp/B0084BNUAO/ref=pd_sim_kinc_30

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Foresters-Humors-Virginia-Frontier-ebook/dp/B0084BMPIC

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34607

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40633

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40634

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Captain-Coo...8&qid=1377859101&sr=1-1&keywords=captain+cook

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Captain-Jou...8&qid=1377859101&sr=1-2&keywords=captain+cook

This thread ties in with another regarding changes posted yesterday by a member. Some here dislike ebooks, some see them as the way forward, but I look on them as a true convenience, only a few years ago you'd pack a couple of books for a camp or a holiday, now you can 'pack' a few hundred and I think they are one of the better 21st century inventions, up there with LED lighting.

I still love my 'real' books but I really do like the ebook as well.

Take some time out and look, there are some great books on traditional camp craft/skills etc.

Add your links to this thread as you find them.

 

[Badger74]

Thanks for those links Rik.

I feel the same as you about books as well.

 

[rik_uk3]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=sr_pg...ords=free+kindle+books&ie=UTF8&qid=1378281563

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Incidents-S...1378281652&sr=8-93&keywords=free+kindle+books

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Descent...378281760&sr=8-148&keywords=free+kindle+books

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cookery-Boo...864&sr=8-1&keywords=cooking+free+kindle+books

 

[sandbender]

Useful links thanks, I like paper books but would like to have everything I own available as an ebook too.

 

[rik_uk3]

I love my kindle but still managed to spend @ £60 last month on 'real books'

 

[bearbait]

Three formats (ePub, mobi and PDF) of Graves' Bushcraft books are available here on BCUK.

On the topic of real books I still prefer them: you can loan them, trade them, dip into them on the bookshelf, take back to the charity shop for them to sell all over again - all things you can't readily do with a purchased ebook. And there's a nice smell about old books. Ebook readers are great on the road with travel guides, novels etc. but I think regular books (pbooks?) will be about for many years yet. At least until the Fahrenheit 451 era comes upon us.

 

[Hammock Hamster]

Another very good resource is a free program called calibre, in brief it will allow u to convert almost any document format into any other document format, for example ePub into mobi or mobi not ePub - very useful if you have say a kindle (mobi) but can only find the book u want in ePub format.

Also allows you to convert anything from a word document to a PDF into the right format for your e reader.

No affiliation etc... Just find it a really useful tool.

Hamster

 

[rik_uk3]

An undate to Calibre was launched recently, its a good programme

http://calibre-ebook.com/

 

[Eragon21]

We have four kindles in my house as each of us has one, I find then very usefull indeed, they apparently fit enough books to read a book a week for 57 years!!!! The problem over real books is that you have to keep the charged

 

[berlaga]

I use http://www.booksshouldbefree.com/

 

[gilly0802]

http://www.dailyfreebooks.co.uk/

This site automatically updates itself with Amazons free Kindle book listing so you can search easily