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Does anyone have a Kindle or similar type of item? Apart from Amazon, are there any sites to get books from either for free or at a reduced price? I've clicked on a few but they seem to be just lists of other sites and my notifications for unsafe sites is having a meltdown  I've had a look on Waterstones & WHSmith, but they seem to be more expensive than Amazon and have a smaller selection 
Sometimes Police Officers give more than just speeding tickets!
It�s hard to be fit as a fiddle when you�re shaped like a cello!
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I also have a kindle , so i would be interested in any free e-book sites.
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cheers for the replies folks..And Wench...."And if ya know ya history"...
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Sometimes Police Officers give more than just speeding tickets!
It�s hard to be fit as a fiddle when you�re shaped like a cello!
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Free e books Useful list of sites offering free e books.
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Very difficult to find the 1-million or so free books Amazon claim they have. As such try http://openlibrary.org/ - who have over 1,000,000 public domain works. If you are happy to pirate ebooks then Calibre and your favourite download platform will probably have bundles of ebooks...
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Can download them by the thousands from most torrent sites, btjunkie seems to have the best trackers for ebooks.
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I've got Calibre but no idea how to use it yet I see a lot on some sites are pdf files - tried using them but it's too hard to read them so I've binned them off. Something was said by a friend about Mobi but as I've only had it 2 days and said I'd never have one in the house, let alone own one, I am none the wiser. It's annoying that some of my favourite authors don't have any ebooks
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have you seen the new kindle's? some of my fb friends were going sick about them ![[Linked Image]](http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k426/snickasevans/dailysmiley/rolleyes1.gif) Kindle Fire
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I don't like it My best friend was telling me to have an ipad but I don't like them either. I opted for the normal keypad one without 3G (no idea what it is anyway so it's no loss ) As long as I can read books on it and buy books on it, that's all I need to know. Although I did discover I can tweet from it 
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have a kindle with 3g but going to upgrade to the fire when its released in the uk.havent downloaded any books from anywhere except amazon.for all the hassle involved in other sites they are not really that expensive to download from amazon.
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Can download them by the thousands from most torrent sites, btjunkie seems to have the best trackers for ebooks. I can't seem to get on sites like that A friend suggested one called nwz something or other and I couldn't get on that either, kept coming up something about server. Having to convert them to mobi or whatever it is is too much like hard work when you're not that savvy I'll just buy one a month or so I think, although there's one I will have to save up for but I really want it so it's worth it  Serves me right for being such an IT spac
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Oh bugger - I've just found all the works of Shakespeare (including Sonnets), Dickens etc and all my favourite poets (Keats, Yeats etc). I'm happy as a pig in muck
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just downloaded nearly 6 gig worth of books myself sci-fi and fantasy,,, turtledove, piers anthony, feist, pratchet diskworld books 1--35, douglas adams, kevin J anderson and many many more
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