Risulta thereâ cosa € ™ s non come un pranzo gratuito, ma c'è una cosa come un libro libero.
I recently got a Kindle (il vecchio tipo, senza touch screen o 3G o uno schermo a colori o niente) per uno stage IA € ™ m lavorando su. Ho pensato IA € ™ d ottenere alcuni libri da leggere mentre ero a lui (might as well use the Kindle for what it’s intended), so I opened up the Kindle Store on my Kindle and prepared to buy a few books.
The first book on my list was Homer’s Odyssey, which I’m currently reading in English class. I scrolled though some of the results looking for the cheapest copy. $12.50, $2.50, $0.00, $1.00, $2.00… hm, looks like I’ll get the $1 uno… wait, cosa?!?
Che è di destra – there was a completely free version of the Odyssey available on the Kindle Store. I selected “download”, and in a few seconds The Odyssey popped up on my home screen. Simple as that.
I figured that this was, after all, gli Odyssey, so it would definitely have a free version available. How about less-famous The Count of Monte Cristo? Yup, free version available too. The Art of War? You guessed it.
I spent an hour happily browsing through the free store (you just need to know which book you want) and filling up my Kindle with free stuff. At the end, I had the following on my Kindle. Not too shabby.
- The Odyssey of Homer, Homer and William Cowper
- Moby Dick, oppure, the whale, Herman Melville
- Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
- The Art of War, Sunzi
- The War of the Worlds, H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
- The Time Machine, H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
- The Raven, Edgar Allen Poe
- The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
- A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
- Dracula, Bram Stoker
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Yup, if you just search the titles, you’ll find that there are free versions available. There are probably plenty more well-known books with free versions available that I didn’t include here.
A proposito, if you registered the Kindle with the same e-mail that you use for your Amazon account, è possibile find books online and have them sent to your Kindle. So you can get free books without even having to have your Kindle with you. Neat, huh?
Ah, I love free stuff. Especially free books.
