To ask if you use illegal downloads for your kindle...

[laalala]

Where are they? I downloaded a couple of books and they saved onto my computer, they said they were transferring to the kindle when I pressed the button. But now I can't see them anywhere on the actual kindle.

OP Did you know there are hundreds of free books you're missing out on by not registering your kindle to your Amazon account.

Did you also know that if you have a kindle fire (not sure about other models) and you are a Prime member, you can now borrow books from Amazon.

Also I have had a Kindle for 3 years. My first one was bought from Amazon.com (America) before they were for sale in the UK. After almost two years, the screen went funny. I got in touch with Amazon by requesting a call back. As they could identity my kindle from the registration, they sent me a brand new shiny kindle within 3 days free of charge. The same fault happened again after only two weeks, again they sent me a new one.

What I'm trying to say is you're telly missing out by not registering your kindle to an Amazon account, even if you don't want to put your hand in your pocket and pay for a book.

All the pearl clutching on this thread is hilarious!

*really missing out, not telly :)

At the moment you can only lend/borrow in the US, I believe. It is ridiculous and stupid and copyright law is a minefield.

Oh no, I tell lies apparently. You can borrow via Prime (but not lend, it seems.)

doubt anyone would admit it if they do on very public forum.......

boffinmum Thank you! Tried a sample, looks great I love these types of things! I've only bought a few 29p daily deal type books so far but it's on my wishlist

I hope all of you who wouldn't have free downloads would refuse to buy second hand books from charity shops and boot sales. The impact on authors royalties is exactly the same. If amazon locks a kindle account it's not exactly the end of the world. I found over 2500 books on pirate bay within minutes of searching.

Lurk. For research obvs

I have a few out of copyright books on my kindle ipad app, that I have also put on a friends kindle.

Are they mobi files? They need to be!
Have you put them into the correct folder? If I remember once you plug it in to your computer and browse the kindle folders, they need to go in the one called "books" or "ebooks" or something like that? It won't pick them up otherwise.

If it's not that I don't know.

There are loads of free books via amazon, plus you can buy cd's on eBay for a couple of pounds with hundreds of books on (of course that's probably going against copyright laws). I also get a daily email for free kindle books via amazon, you just log your preferred book type and this company emails you what's free in your criteria each day.

Commander - you can, but it's a bit rubbish to be honest, as you can only borrow one at a time. I borrowed a dud and have to wait another month to borrow another

If you want free kindle books from amazon lookhere

Another kindle author here who doesn't actually make a lot from the book, but it would be nice if someone recognised that even if it is just typing, it's a lot of words to type, and that must be worth something.

Re kindle - you can borrow if you are member of Amazon Prime, and if the book is part of the lending scheme, and not all are. There are also loads of free kindle books as in given free but legally from Amazon. Then there are places like Kobo and Smashwords where you can also get free books legally, inexpensive books, you can give the books on Smashwords and Kobo as gifts - it is made really easy for you. btw some books are a lot cheaper on Smashwords but they don't publish everything or hold everything like Amazon.

Re ebooks, you can get readers for most formats that work on the pc. If you check out Smashwords they have books in all formats you can imagine, including pdf and rtf. And while you are there, my stuff is under Lyssa Medana.

You actually may find it useful to register with Amazon and/or the other places because there are a lot of benefits.

Ereaderiq.co.uk is the link for free daily kindle books via amazon

Also bought Austerity Housekeeping - because I really, really want it, and I had been lax and hadn't kept up with the blog and I am looking forward to curling up with it. I will get so much pleasure out of it, just as I have the blog, and I think it appropriate that I acknowledge that.

I don't do illegal downloads for my kindle, I tend to enjoy the freebies but I do also use flagfic to download free original fiction and fanfiction.

How do you download them then, through torrents? Are you sure the file type is right?

I don't do illegal downloads for my kindle, I tend to enjoy the freebies but I do also use flagfic to download free original fiction and fanfiction.

How do you download them then, through torrents? Are you sure the file type is right?

Okay so you all guilt tripped me into setting up an amazon account and I downloaded a couple of the free ones from there. But they're still saying there on my kindle when I look at it on the computer in the folders, but not actually on the kindle when I try to find them.

I sometimes think that people think that illegal downloading of books is a victimless crime. It's not.

I am a four-times published author. My UK publisher has now dumped me because I didn't sell enough copies of my fourth novel. There could be many reasons for this but illegal downloads don't help. In the meantime my husband has been made redundant. I am now having to find all kinds of work to try and bridge the income gap. Which means that it is hard to find the time to write the next novel.

If you enjoy an author's books, BUY them or at least go to the library. At least they will get about 6p a loan each time you borrow their books. It mounts up to a very useful sum each year.

Otherwise those authors you liked but not enough to invest money in will simply stop writing. Because they too have bills to pay and children to support.

Many authors' books are available for less than a pound on Amazon. One of mine was 89p over summer. You don't need to be a thief.

laalala have you 'synced' in settings? Could they be under 'archived folders' sounds a bit odd.

Libraries have either introduced or introducing an ebook service. Check locally.

Amazon have a lending library, but only for prime. Less than £50 a year. Great if you use the service for shopping. Although should be for all ereader imo, not just kindle.
Gutenberg project, free legal downloads.
Kobo have free books for all devices.
Baen free library.
Fictionwise.
Mobileread.
Manybook.
Getfreebooks.com
Bookboon.co.uk

Plus many more legal sites.
You have to make sure they are in the correct format. They don't always go to the book tab, but to document tab..

Have any of you got the Fire one? Because of the screen wont it be the same as the mobile, laptop etc where in the sun useless? Was looking at a mates a few days ago, thinking about upgrading my very old sony one, until I saw the shiny screen.

On my Ipad app, I have a "cloud" menu which is stuff I've downloaded from Amazon, and a "device" menu which is stuff I've imported onto the ipad or downloaded from Amazon and not archived. Don't know if it's different on the Kindle - Are you looking in the right place?

We looked into buying kindles for our sixth-form classes doing personal studies and Amazon said we could buy one book and download it onto up to 3 kindles when we rung them to ask. Still trying to get the money from somewhere to do this, so we haven't investigated any further so far.

You transfer the book files from your PC straight to the kindle's folders. Can't remember which. I got bored of individually downloading the free books from gutenburg and similar sites and my Mum found a torrent of some but I am assuming it is exactly the same with the 'illegal' downloads.