Kindle as an App for use on smartphones, tablets and even computers, I found myself signing up for it and beginning my journey down ebooks. In the interim, I've bought over 850 ebooks on Amazon, but I have spent a total of $0.00. You read that right. I spent nothing, but now I have some 850+ books in my Kindle app (Note: When I started this blog post, I had about 800 but over the course of researching, I added 50 more books). So I have never bought the Amazon Kindle. When it first came out, I was curious but dubious. And I never found a full need for it in my life (this coming from someone trying to read 365 books this year). However, when Amazon released thefor use on smartphones, tablets and even computers, I found myself signing up for it and beginning my journey down ebooks. In the interim, I've bought over 850 ebooks on Amazon, but I have spent a total of $0.00. You read that right. I spent nothing, but now I have some 850+ books in my Kindle app (Note: When I started this blog post, I had about 800 but over the course of researching, I added 50 more books).

Tips and Tricks to Searching Amazon

So how do you find these awesome books. The simplest way is to go to Amazon itself. Type an author into the search engine. On the search results page, click "Books" (or "Kindle Store" if it shows up--it doesn't always depending on your search). On the right screen, click the drop down menu "Sort By" and select "Price: Low to High." Depending on the author, particularly if it is contemporary, it is likely to wield poor results. If it is a work in the public domain , it's much more likely to be found on Amazon for free. This means practically all works written before 1923. From 1923 and beyond, it gets a bit trickier but there are still lots of works to be found. (A follow up post will show some science-fiction, fantasy, and horror that is available from after 1923). You can also search by genre name and title and then sort by low to high.





Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought. On most product pages on Amazon, there is a row of icons and products of "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought..." There can be anywhere between 1 to 16 subpages that you can scroll through. I find this is also a good opportunity to move through related products since in addition to the product item, the price is also posted.





OneHundredFreeBooks . This is one of the many sites and apps out there that will inform you of the latest free books on Amazon. I like it because it has a webpage but also updates on its Facebook page several times a day.





Twitter Hashtags. Twitter is also a great place to look for hashtags related to "free" "Amazon" and/or "Kindle" and you'll find daily numerous tweets of various free ebooks.











Below are listed some of the purchases that I've made over the last 2 years of book-buying on Amazon. I link to the product page but then also when relevant, a listing to the author's works sorted by price from low to high so you can see what else is offered by the author. As of June 27, 2013, all the links work, but that's the other thing to consider is that some items come and go. Enjoy and come back (or subscribe via email or RSS) to catch Part 2 of this listing wherein I cover a good amount of classic sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. The categories below are Classic Literature, Cooking and Homestead, Fairy Tales, and Miscellaneous.

CLASSIC LITERATURE





L. Frank Baum





Lewis Carroll





Kate Chopin





James Fenimore Cooper





Stephen Crane





Charles Dickens





Emily Dickinson





Fyodor Dostoyevsky





Arthur Conan Doyle





W. E. B. Du Bois





Alexandre Dumas





F.Scott Fitzgerald





Benjamin Franklin





Nathaniel Hawthorne





Thomas Hobbes





Homer





David Hume





Harriet Ann Jacobs





James Joyce





Rudyard Kipling





D. H. Lawrence





Jack London





Niccolo Machiavelli









Herman Melville





Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche





Charlotte Perkins Gilman









Plato





Edgar Allan Poe





Apollonius Rhodius





William Shakespeare





Upton Sinclair





Adam Smith





Sophocles





Henry David Thoreau





Alexis de Tocqueville





Leo Tolstoy





Mark Twain





Jules Verne





Virgil





Booker T. Washington





Walt Whitman





Oscar Wilde





Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

FOOD AND HOMESTEAD

Kirsten Anderberg





Mark J. Asher





John Barnes





Lori Burke





Lydia Maria Francis Child





Marcus Duke





Alisa Marie Fleming





Meigyn Gabryelle





Homemade Quirk





Infinite Ideas





Instructables Authors





M. G. (Maurice Grenville) Kains





Vitaly Pedchenko





F. P. Rockwell





Al Sevcik





George Washington Sears





Michael Sullivan





William H. Ukers

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A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt) Verrill

FAIRY TALES





MISCELLANEOUS

Drew Davidson

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Charles M. Schulz





Sir Henry M. Stanley





United States' Presidents





Charles River Editors (Titles change often but lots of free history stuff).





So where else do you find free ebooks for the Kindle or elsewhere?



