Amazon rant

[tabbycat31]

I just got a Kindle Fire a few months ago and I'm looking for new (free) books to put on it. I search the bestseller list to find out what is free and I'm so disappointed in their classification system. I like nonfiction books. I don't consider a Christian romance to be nonfiction.

Get it right Amazon!

[Wounded Bear]

1. Can any book labeled "Christian" be considered non-fiction?

I'm bad, I know.

[tabbycat31]

2. you got a good point there

Personally I wish Amazon would put all the Christian books into their own category that way I don't have to come across them. I'm always looking for good (free) reads for my Kindle, but I don't want them to be Christian.

[lunatica]

3. Amazon takes your viewing history and shows you similar stuff

I used to shop on Amazon for books for faculty because I had a UC Berkeley credit card. So now I get science books and animal and plant books along with other stuff I've just looked at.

Did you ever click on one of those Christian books maybe? That's all it takes.

[Honeycombe8]

4. I haven't run across that problem....yet.

I have a different Kindle but still the same list of books.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Good news....

there is a free app, called Calibre, that will take any e-book format and turn it into .mobi and even put it on your Kindle for you.

That way, you can find zillions of free e-books from dozens of sites, download, drag and drop into Calibre, which turns it into something your Kindle can read, and puts it on the Kindle for you.

I have a Nook, same process applies. I can read the Kindle books on my Nook, after Calibre re=formats it.
PLUS, Calibre is also an e-reader, so I add any format book to it and read in the window.
That works very well for pdf files and books, and comics, but also for Kindle and Nook formats.


Oh, here are a few free ebook sites to get you started, after you google and find Calibre.

www.manybooks.net

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/archives.html