Free Kindle books (1/8 --297 books) + Kindle News + Discount Alerts + Amazon promos

FREE KINDLE BOOK AND DISCOUNT ALERTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS BY FORUM MEMBERS JAN 8 + SOME RANDOM KINDLE NEWS

(See yesterday's blog article for details on how the free-books and discount-alert forum threads work, to save space and prevent eye fatigue here.

Jan. 8, Sunday -- approximately 297 newly announced, temporarily-free books, plus discounted-book alerts as of 1/8 and recommendation-lists by forum members


TODAY's Free Books from Joyce's multi-daily threads:

  Sunday, Jan. 8 - 297 books
  A few are free for only one day.

  Why so many free books these days?  Here are the reasons described in the blog article dated December 12.  It seems this will continue.

  NOOK News inserted here
  Apropos the massive influx of free Kindle books due to Amazon's allowing these promos for authors who participate in the PRIME free-borrowing program, a new Kindle forum thread today is "Anyone know of a FREE NOOK BOOK List?"

    The replies and the recent news about what is speculated about B&N currently considering spinning off its Nook business, can give pause when making buying decisions.  But it can mean either it leaves that expensive but fast-growing business and no longer has to explain the costs of development that had led to lowered profitability despite a growing market share, or B&N might want to create an independent company through sale or distribution of new shares of the existing business, boosting the company's valuation, with incentives to those who work in the Nook area while B&N can focus on its core operations.

  Some have thought that if they sell it, the quick income will please the stockholders in uncertain times or soften any blows.  I don't think anyone knows what they're planning.  Here are a lot of articles speculating on the possible spin off.  Meaty speculation by WSJ (thanks to Edward Boyhan for the alert 2 days ago though I wanted to read more about it and there's certainly that now).  Key, from WSJ:

' One possibility is that Barnes & Noble could sell a minority stake in the Nook business in a public offering. The two businesses would likely have different managements and different boards. Under such a scenario, Barnes & Noble would continue to have close ties to its Nook devices. Another possibility is selling the Nook business outright.
. . .
  Barnes & Noble investors may not have the patience to fund Nook growth here and abroad, said Forrester Research analyst Sarah Rotman Epps. "It's going to require sustained investment." '

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LATEST DISCOUNTED Kindle books (some temporarily) -

Ongoing Forum Discount-Alerts thread, starting from yesterday's exit point:

  Jan. 7-8


TODAY's KINDLE DAILY DEAL
Today's Kindle Daily Deal is The Other Guys Bride (Link: amzn.to/other-guys-bride ), by Connie Brockway, with 53 customer reviews and an average rating of 4.7 stars.  Genre: Historical Romance.
  Priced at $4.99 Saturday, with a $4.00 discount Sunday, it's $0.99 today (80% off)


Reminders
  . Amazon's specific mostly 99c Kindle books page
  . Amazon's monthly 100 Kindle book deals, from $1.99 to $3.99

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R A N D O M    K I N D L E    NEWS

VALUING ONE'S KINDLE A FEW MEGABITS TOO MUCH
How much is your Kindle worth to you?
TDN's Daily News reports:

' ... a female acquaintance claimed she was owed money and attempted to steal the victim's Amazon Kindle tablet device as payment, according to police.

When the victim resisted, the other woman allegedly stabbed her in the abdomen with a kitchen knife and fled the apartment with the Kindle, Longview Sgt. Ed Jones said Saturday. '

  While I thought this story read like an idea for a SNL skit or a new Amazon ad for a Kindle, it was a relief to read that the victim was treated for a 'minor wound.'


*NOT* RECOMMENDED - REPARTITIONING YOUR KINDLE FIRE STORAGE SPACE
I'm including this news as some mainstream news sites are writing about a utility to expand your app space on the Kindle Fire.  I have to stress that 99% of people shouldn't even try this.  Note that the maker of the utility, FireParted, say says

' There is some inherent risk associated with repartitioning your device. If something goes wrong, you can always attempt to re-partition again, but there is a risk data loss will occur. However, since the essential system partitions are never touched, I would consider it highly unlikely that you will brick your device. Please understand that there is potentially some risk involved, and that you choose to take this risk when using FireParted (so don't hold me liable, mmkay?).

Edit: Some problems have been reported with the partitioning failing. If this occurs, please try to provide an output if your partition layout (if possible). Also, I strongly recommend that you do not install a stock update zip since you will blow away FIREFIREFIRE and your custom recovery. Partition issues are fixable, but you need a custom recovery to do it... '

  Here's one App Space solution
  IF you really are running out of app space (we get 1 gig and only 1/3 of mine is used up although I have mapping apps on it and a ton of productivity tools), here's a tip:

    It's like removing or deleting a Kindle book from your Kindle-reader when you don't need it.   It remains in your Amazon library and can be re-downloaded at ANY time that you do need or want it; there's no need to keep everything on a device with the multiple Cloud areas we have at Amazon these days.   The less crowded your storage area, the faster a device will run.
     You bought it, it's still yours, whether it's currently on your device or not.

    So, you can UNinstall apps that didn't come pre-installed, if that helps.  I've uninstalled ones I know I will almost never use or have no need for currently, but the apps I get from Amazon remain 'mine' on Amazon server records and I can re-download them as needed, at no charge.

      NOT likely anyway that I'd want to decrease my data storage area to allow me to hoard more apps, most of which I wouldn't use in a year.



SOLAR POWERED KINDLE COVER to Debut at CES 2012
SolarKindle - "the world's first solar powered e-reader cover" will be introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) starting this Monday, reports Larry Magid of Forbes.

  Well, to get to the nitty gritty, this is a nice idea, for many reasons, but the cost of it is expected to be $80 or the cost of the least-expensive Kindle, or $20 less expensive than the WiFi-Only Kindle touch.  Knowing how fast the Kindle models change as they improve certain hardware and software features, and how the SIZE changes also, it'll be interesting to see how well this sells.

Kindle Touch 3G   Kindle Touch WiFi   Kindle Basic   (UK: KBasic)   Kindle Fire
Kindle Keybd 3G   (UK: Kindle Keybd 3G)   K3 Special Offers   K3-3G Special Offers   DX

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Check often: Temporarily-free recently published ones
  Guide to finding Free Kindle books and Sources.  Top 100 free bestsellers.  Liked-books under $1
UK-Only: recently published free books, bestsellers, or £5 Max ones
    Also, UK customers should see the UK store's Top 100 free bestsellers.

  *Click* to Return to the HOME PAGE.  Or click on the web browser's BACK button

Free Kindle books (1/6-1/7 -- 915 books) + Discounted-book Forum Alerts + Amazon promos

FREE KINDLE BOOK AND DISCOUNT ALERTS BY FORUM MEMBERS Jan. 6-7

Jan. 6-7, Friday thru' Saturday -- approximately 915 newly announced, temporarily-free books, plus discounted-book alerts as of 1-6 to 1/7 and recommendation-lists by forum members

This is the somewhat ongoing logging of Joyce's daily Kindle forum threads about newly announced temporarily-free books, which are so plentiful now that the forum listings are not being itemized, currently -- but she gives links to a website that posts them, in identified batches, and then forum members post links to books that each selected from the hundreds available that day, a useful filtering mechanism by people with very varied tastes interested in specific genres.

  The member recommendations can be especially helpful for those who may not have the time to view the full listings each day, and there are links that go to somewhat manageable subsets of the full listings, by date.



Red Mojo Mama, by Kathy Lynn Hall, 19 customer reviews, 4.6 stars average, $0.00 (Link: http://amzn.to/red-mojo-mama )

  A short, light-hearted book although it's listed under Fiction->Horror->Ghosts ... Readers describe it as a fun read.


Saturday's Kindle Daily Deal (Amazon's Daily Deal changes at about midnight each day)


Saturday's special deal is 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die, by Tom Moon, 86 customer reviews, 4.1 stars   (Link: amzn.to/1000-recordings-before )

  Priced at $9.99 Friday but, with a $9.00 discount today (Sat, 7th), it's $0.99 for just today (90% off)

Draws from "the diverse worlds of classical, jazz, rock, pop, blues, country, folk, musicals, hip-hop, world, opera, soundtracks and more...arranged alphabetically by artist [and, sometimes by composer for classical]...to break down genre bias..."

  There are genre listings with page numbers in the back though, and Kindlers have the Search feature.

"Award-winning music journalist Tom Moon is a regular contributor to National Public Radio's All Things Considered as well as Rolling Stone, Blender and other publications.  During his twenty-year tenure as a music critic at the Philadelphia Inquirer, his writings appeared in hundreds of daily newspapers and magazines..."

Some customer reviewers expected an encyclopedia of what they personally consider the best.  Others point out that the title is about recordings "to hear" before departing the surly bonds of earth* and involves the opinion of one person, which means it can't be all-inclusive nor a match for one's own tastes always.  Another felt that it's good for discoveries of items not on our radar.  I like all types of music, so for 99c I did order this one.

* That 'surly bonds' sonnet was written by a Canadian Air Force pilot, John Gillespe Magee, who flew in a British Spitfire squadron and was killed at the age of nineteen, in 1941 during a training flight.

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LATEST DISCOUNTED Kindle books (some temporarily) -
  Forum-thread starter RandomizeME cautions, "This thread is [only] for discounts and price drops that readers find from publishers."  Another main finder is Emily Bronte.

  For Jan. 5-7 postings.

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TEMPORARILY-Free books:   Alerts from the Amazon Kindle forums - via the tireless "Happy Reader" Joyce, who is ever on the lookout on behalf of forum members.

  NOTE: The alerts are quoted from Joyce's roundup from several sites with news of mostly temporarily-free books.  Those listings, when itemized, are not recommendations by anyone but the forum threads have often listed popular, usually unfiltered daily sets of forum release-alerts and are logged here for those who don't or can't make it to the forums.  These eBooks are often no longer free within just days, sometimes, within hours.  Thanks to Joyce for gathering them for us.

  LATELY, with so many temporarily-free Kindle books released (400-650+ at a time these days), Joyce of course is not listing each one but is referring readers to one of the main sites she uses when collecting the titles.

  To make the forum alerts more useful, with hundreds of newly-free titles each day, members who join these forum threads are trying to help filter them by posting the titles (and links) for the ones that most interested each of them from all those listed.

  As of this morning, there were several recommendation lists already for today's temporarily-free titles.

  Going backwards to January 6, here are the message-threads with members' recommendations from having gone through the humongous lists.

  . Saturday, January 7 - 485 books

  . Friday, January 6 - 430 books

Reminder: Amazon's specific mostly 99c Kindle books page.

Ongoing popular discussions   (See Kindle Forums for more.)
  . Are you sorry you bought a Fire?   Newer
  . Kindle touch or Kindle Keyboard   Newer
  . Kindle Fire for nonTech person?
  . Kindle Fire Keyboard.. Anyone else having issues?
  . Any happy Kindle Touch owners?
  . Kindle Fire video on airplane compared with iPad video, a tense thread :-)
  . Got my Fire!
  . Feel like almost crying - Kindle loss and personalizing Kindles - lighthearted
  . Unusual calls from Amazon because of forum posts
  . Personal docs now sendable to individual Kindles again
  . To Avoid Confusion, Please Use the Official Product Names in Forum" [entertaining]
  . Discussion of geographic restrictions on digital purchases
  . Discount-alert books discussed on separate message thread
  . What have been your favorite public domain books that are not so well known?
  . Best "Free" books you've read (many are no longer free, however).
  . Highly recommended Indie authors
  . Unique Uses of Kindles

Other current forum threads that might interest some
Public Library Lending questions at the forums, and Lendle's Kindle borrowing
  . How many e-books does your public library have?
  . Public librarians: what has been your Kindle/Overdrive experience?



Kindle Touch 3G   Kindle Touch WiFi   Kindle Basic   (UK: KBasic)   Kindle Fire
Kindle Keybd 3G   (UK: Kindle Keybd 3G)   K3 Special Offers   K3-3G Special Offers   DX

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Check often: Temporarily-free recently published ones
  Guide to finding Free Kindle books and Sources.  Top 100 free bestsellers.  Liked-books under $1
UK-Only: recently published free books, bestsellers, or £5 Max ones
    Also, UK customers should see the UK store's Top 100 free bestsellers.

  *Click* to Return to the HOME PAGE.  Or click on the web browser's BACK button

Free Kindle books (1/1-1/5 - ~1,548 books) + Discounted-book Forum Alerts + Amazon promos

FREE/DISCOUNTED KINDLE BOOKS DISCOVERED BY FORUM MEMBERS

Jan. 1-5, Sunday thru' Thursday -- approximately 1,548 newly announced, temporarily-free books, plus discounted-book alerts as of 1-1 to 1/5.

This is the logging of Joyce's daily Kindle forum threads about newly announced temporarily-free books, which are so plentiful now that the forum listings are not being itemized, currently -- but she gives links to a website that posts them, in identified batches, and then forum members post links to books that each selected from the hundreds available that day, a useful filtering mechanism by people with very varied tastes interested in specific genres.
  This can be especially helpful for those who may not have the time to view full listings each day, and there are are links that go to somewhat manageable subsets of the full listings, by date.


I just happened to see the following on one of the "Recommended" lists:
Slammed, by Colleen Hoover, 16 customer reviews, 5.0 stars average, $0.00 (Link: amzn.to/slammed_colleen-hover )
 These are almost all "Amazon Verified Purchase" reviews, and is an unusual item in that most customer-reviewers describe themselves as people who don't normally like to read or haven't read a book for years, which I found odd to see on a product page for a Kindle book.  The key seems to have been word of mouth at message boards for the the Sony folk/rock group, The Avett Brothers.  In any case, as you can see, the book gets raves from their fans.
  May be a good book to recommend to non-reading friends.  I gave a Kindle for a special birthday to a family member who expressed interest in one though he'd not read books for some years but is now reading all the time.



A free Kindle book that uses the "X-ray" feature
The House of the Whispering Pines, by Anna Katharine Green, 13 customer reviews, 3.8 stars, $0.00 (Link: amzn.to/house-whispering-pines )

The new X-RAY feature for Kindle Touch:
I'm including this Kindle book again for the apparently millions who now have a Kindle Touch model, because Chloe from the Kindle forums mentioned it as a free book that has the new X-ray feature.  Many have wondered how the X-ray feature works.
  I'd explained some of it in the The X-Ray reference tool - What it does blog article, but that doesn't do much good if you can't see it in action, and it's hard to know which of the newer Kindle books has been given this feature.



Thursday's Kindle Daily Deal (changes at about midnight each day)


Thursday's special deal is The Yellow House: A Novel, by Patricia Falvey, 49 customer reviews, 4.3 stars   (Link: http://amzn.to/yellow-house )

  Priced at $9.99 Wednesday but, with a $7.00 discount today (Thurs., 5th), is $2.99 for just today (70% off)

"...This novel delivers the best of both worlds: secrets, intrigue and surprising twists will keep readers flipping the pages, while Falvey's insight and poetic writing tugs at the heartstrings of the most cynical audiences. (Feb.)" –- Publishers Weekly
(Another one of her books is featured in Amazon's January Kindle editors-choice monthly deals that are priced at between $1.99-$3.99

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LATEST DISCOUNTED Kindle books (some temporarily) -
  Forum-thread starter RandomizeME cautions, "This thread is [only] for discounts and price drops that readers find from publishers."  Another main finder is Emily Bronte.

  For Jan. 3-5 postings.

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TEMPORARILY-Free books:   Alerts from the Amazon Kindle forums - via the tireless "Happy Reader" Joyce, who is ever on the lookout on behalf of forum members.

  NOTE: The alerts are quoted from Joyce's roundup, from several sites with news of mostly temporarily-free books.  Those listings are not recommendations by anyone but the forum threads list popular, usuallly unfiltered daily sets of forum release-alerts, logged here for those who don't or can't make it to the forums.  The eBooks are often no longer free within days, sometimes, within hours.  Thanks to Joyce for gathering and organizing them for us.

  LATELY, with so many temporarily-free Kindle books released (400-650 at a time, often), Joyce of course is not listing each one but is referring readers to one of the main sites she uses when collecting the titles.

  To make the forum alerts more useful, members who join these forum threads are trying to help filter them by posting the titles (and links) for the ones that most interested each of them from all those listed (as noted in the opening of this blog entry).

  As of early this morning, there were several recommendation lists already for today's 412 temporarily-free titles, Thurs, Jan. 5.

  Going backwards to January 1, here are the message-threads with members' recommendations from having gone through the humongous lists.

  . Thurs, January 5 - 412 books

  . Early Morning, Wed, January 4 - 329 books

  . Tuesday, Jan. 3 - 339 books

  . Early Morning Tuesday, Jan. 3 - EST (was Late Night, Tues, Jan. 2, PST) - 1 book

  . Monday, Jan. 2 - free-form member posting of about 35 titles

  . Sunday, Jan 1 - 432 books

Also ongoing, Amazon's specific mostly 99c Kindle books page.


Ongoing popular discussions   (See Kindle Forums for more.)
  . Are you sorry you bought a Fire?   Newer
  . Kindle touch or Kindle Keyboard   Newer
  . Kindle Fire for nonTech person?
  . Kindle Fire Keyboard.. Anyone else having issues?
  . Any happy Kindle Touch owners?
  . Kindle Fire video on airplane compared with iPad video, a tense thread :-)
  . Got my Fire!
  . Feel like almost crying - Kindle loss and personalizing Kindles - lighthearted
  . Unusual calls from Amazon because of forum posts
  . Personal docs now sendable to individual Kindles again
  . To Avoid Confusion, Please Use the Official Product Names in Forum" [entertaining]
  . Discussion of geographic restrictions on digital purchases
  . Discount-alert books discussed on separate message thread
  . What have been your favorite public domain books that are not so well known?
  . Best "Free" books you've read (many are no longer free, however).
  . Highly recommended Indie authors
  . Unique Uses of Kindles

Other current forum threads that might interest some
Public Library Lending questions at the forums, and Lendle's Kindle borrowing
  . How many e-books does your public library have?
  . Public librarians: what has been your Kindle/Overdrive experience?



Kindle Touch 3G   Kindle Touch WiFi   Kindle Basic   (UK: KBasic)   Kindle Fire
Kindle Keybd 3G   (UK: Kindle Keybd 3G)   K3 Special Offers   K3-3G Special Offers   DX

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Check often: Temporarily-free recently published ones
  Guide to finding Free Kindle books and Sources.  Top 100 free bestsellers.  Liked-books under $1
UK-Only: recently published free books, bestsellers, or £5 Max ones
    Also, UK customers should see the UK store's Top 100 free bestsellers.

  *Click* to Return to the HOME PAGE.  Or click on the web browser's BACK button

Free Kindle books from Konrath and Crouch, 23 each, for one more day. Other free books and promos. Update: Millions of Kindle Fires + Millions of Kindle ereaders purchased, two Indy authors #1 and #4

Happily satiated with so many free Kindle books

Danish Polar Bear Cub Siku lies in bliss after just being fed, and it reminded me (okay, I just needed an excuse to post that picture!) of Kindlers after downloading so many free books each day lately (although I've seen that some are actually exhausted by the sheer number of them and the choices to be made).
  (For the others interested, here's the story and video for Siku. Kindle edition subscribers can't do video but can use the following link at a computer: bit.ly/blissed-out-siku )
  One more: an even better Siku videoclip (1-1/2 min.) (Link: bit.ly/siku-2 )

I actually ran across a Daily Mail comment that makes Siku almost on-topic :-)


Back to the many free Kindle books available lately
And now, J.A. Konrath and Blake Crouch offer a few more.
Two days ago, at 9:35 AM, December 27, the bestselling author J.A. Konrath announced:

' I've sold 7000 ebooks in the last 36 hours, making over $14,000.

For the next three days, I'm making 23 of my titles free on Amazon Kindle. '

He added that "Blake Crouch is doing the same" and then linked us to their general pages of books.

  Since there is only ONE DAY REMAINING (I tweeted this but then was not here most of the time to blog it) I'm giving two links that will lead straight to the free 23 books for each, heading lists of their books, sorted low-to-high price.  The "next three days" would end Thursday night (tonight) or at 9:35am Friday morning.  I'd go for midnight tonight to be sure you get them while they're free.

  J.A. Konrath's 23+ free  Kindle books [ Update 12/31/11 - That sale is now over.]

  Blake Crouch's 23+ free Kindle books [ Update 12/31/11 - That sale is now over.]


UPDATE - Am adding that Amazon just announced that "Amazon customers purchased millions of Kindle Fires and millions of Kindle e-readers" in what they describe as "...the Best Holiday Ever for Kindle"

  So you'll see the news sites quoting the numbers galore for a few days.

  They also mention a nice side effect: "Authors also continue to benefit from the success of Kindle — the #1 and #4 best-selling Kindle books released in 2011 were both published independently by their authors using Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP)."

  Darcie Chan, the author of ‘The Mill River Recluse,’ and Chris Culver, the author of ‘The Abbey,’ wrote "two of the best-selling Kindle books of the year."
  I remember noticing The Mill River Recluse, on August 25, when looking for a good, low-cost book to highlight for blog readers and the same for The Abbey, on August 30.  Sometimes, a high number of positive customer reviews, along with low-negative counts, will indicate very high interest.
  See the press release for quite a bit more detail.


Today's Kindle Daily Deal
This particular link will always get you the current deal, ending midnight each day. (mostly U.S.)
  Today's is Margaret Atwood's infamous and uplifting (just kidding) "The Handmaid's Tale" which was priced at $8.99 yesterday but, with a $7.50 discount today (Wed., 29th), is $1.49 83% off


In the meantime, what about the daily free Kindle books?
  Here's this morning's announcement, by the Kindle Forum's Joyce, of the latest release of (294) free Kindle books.  She of course is not listing each one when there are so many but is referring you to one of the sites she uses when collecting the titles and it's the one with a lot of information for each book although it then takes some time to go through them.
  When wanting to browse the latest titles faster although with less detail upfront (more will show in popups when hovering over one) try EReaderIQ.


Discount Alerts from the Kindle Forum
 Haven't had time to keep up with all the free books and discount alerts, but here's the latest page of the discounted and dropped-price alerts from the forum community, and you can work back if interested in earlier pages.


Don't forget Amazon's LtdTime Free Kindle Book Promos or Amazon's mostly 99c Kindle books page.


Ongoing popular discussions   (See Kindle Forums for more.)
  . Are you sorry you bought a Fire?   Newer
  . Kindle Fire for nonTech person?
  . Kindle Fire Keyboard.. Anyone else having issues?
  . Any happy Kindle Touch owners?
  . Kindle Fire video on airplane compared with iPad video, a tense thread :-)
  . Got my Fire!
  . Feel like almost crying - Kindle loss and personalizing Kindles - lighthearted
  . Unusual calls from Amazon because of forum posts
  . Personal docs now sendable to individual Kindles again
  . To Avoid Confusion, Please Use the Official Product Names in Forum" [entertaining]
  . Discussion of geographic restrictions on digital purchases
  . Discount-alert books discussed on separate message thread
  . What have been your favorite public domain books that are not so well known?
  . Best "Free" books you've read (many are no longer free, however).
  . Highly recommended Indie authors
  . Unique Uses of Kindles

Other current forum threads that might interest some
Public Library Lending questions at the forums, and Lendle's Kindle borrowing
  . How many e-books does your public library have?
  . Public librarians: what has been your Kindle/Overdrive experience?



Kindle Touch 3G   Kindle Touch WiFi   Kindle Basic   (UK: KBasic)   Kindle Fire
Kindle Keybd 3G   (UK: Kindle Keybd 3G)   K3 Special Offers   K3-3G Special Offers   DX

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Check often: Temporarily-free recently published ones
  Guide to finding Free Kindle books and Sources.  Top 100 free bestsellers.  Liked-books under $1
UK-Only: recently published free books, bestsellers, or £5 Max ones
    Also, UK customers should see the UK store's Top 100 free bestsellers.

  *Click* to Return to the HOME PAGE.  Or click on the web browser's BACK button

Free Kindle books (12/4 -12/6 books - 69 books). + Discounted-book forum alerts + Amazon promos

FREE/DISCOUNTED KINDLE BOOKS DISCOVERED BY FORUM MEMBERS

Dec. 4-6 - Sunday thru' Monday, 69 newly-free books, plus discounted ones as of 12/6 for the same time period, so far. (See page 2 of this blog entry -- if you're reading this on the Home page -- for details.)

A quick one today, as have to be gone.   No highlighted free book, but the 69 newly listed free Kindle books listed should tide people over.  Will leave up, for Kindle Fire owners who didn't see this new offering over the weekend, Bufo Calvin's Kindle Fire guide .


A Kindle book that costs more than $0.00 but will be well worth it for those wondering how to work this Kindle Fire thing

Love Your Kindle Fire: The ILMK Guide to Amazon's Entertablet, by Bufo Calvin, 9 customer reviews, 4.8 stars, $2.99 (Link: amzn.to/love-your-kindle-fire )

Bufo Calvin is the author of 5 other Kindle books and is very popular in the Amazon Kindle forums for his clarity and good humor in answers to questions there, which he does on his own time.  He also has a best-selling Kindle-Edition blog, "I Love My Kindle."

  Calvin goes through each menu option, step by step, explaining what each does.  A lot of the book is in conversational Question and Answer format, in which he interviews himself with the types of questions he has seen most, from the Kindle forums and at his blog, but most important, with some very thorough answers.
  (As this is included in an evening blog posting Friday, it'll also be used for a Saturday listing of free book titles released (if even more are released Saturday) and highlighted finds at the top.


Children's Fiction, Grades 1-4


Tuesday's Kindle Daily Deal (changes at midnight) is Pandora Gets Jealous, by Carolyn Hennesy, 25 customer reviews, 4.5 stars   (Link: amzn.to/pandora-gets-jealous )

  Monday's price: $2.99, Tuesday's discount: $2.00
Tuesday's Kindle Daily Deal Price: $0.99 (67% off)

Another children's book.  (Amazon's link and title are pointing to a former hardback listing page that's currently also designated "Kindle Edition.")
 The author is currently seen on daytime's General Hospital, per the product page.
"Carolyn Hennesy's magical tale follows a 13-year-old girl on her quest to collect unleashed mythological evils. –- Amazon editor"


  MORE... ( The temporarily newly-free books and discounted-book forum-alerts are on a 2nd page, off the Home page, which will help loading of the main page more quickly.  Those reading this on the Home Page and wanting to go see the details on this specific post can do so by: clicking on "MORE" just below - 69 newly-free Kindle books today)
*****

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LATEST DISCOUNTED Kindle books (some temporarily) -
  Forum-thread starter RandomizeME cautions, "This thread is [only] for discounts and price drops that readers find from publishers."  Another main finder is Emily Bronte.

  For 12/3-6 (posts)
(43 added after my last logging of these on Dec 3, morning)

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TEMPORARILY-Free Books:  Alerts from the Amazon Kindle forums - via the tireless "Happy Reader" Joyce, who is ever on the lookout on behalf of forum members.

  NOTE: The alerts are quoted from Joyce's roundup, from several sites, of mostly temporarily-free books.  They're *not* recommendations by anyone but are a popular, unfiltered daily set of forum release-alerts by Joyce, logged here for those who don't or can't make it to the forums.  The eBooks are often no longer free within days, sometimes, within hours.  Thanks to Joyce for gathering and organizing them for us.

' [ Joyce says...]

***** [ Sunday, Dec. 4 - 3 books]

The Strategy of Satan
Author: Warren Wiersbe
Genre: Religious - Action

DESCRIPTION: Dr. Wiersbe zeroes in on Satan's attacks as deceiver, destroyer, ruler, and accuser. He emphasizes that conquering the enemy comes by obeying God's truth.

*****

The Holiness of God
Author: R.C. Sproul
Genre: Religious - Theology

DESCRIPTION: Every Christian who is serious about his or her growth needs to read The Holiness of God. I profited greatly from this book.

*****

A Victorian Christmas (Anthology)
Author: Catherine Palmer
Genre: Religious - Fiction

DESCRIPTION: A beautiful patchwork of four novellas about love and joy at Christmastime by best selling author Catherine Palmer. These four novellas were previously published in four anthologies-A Victorian Christmas Quilt, A Victorian Christmas Tea, A Victorian Christmas Cottage, and A Victorian Christmas Keepsake. Return to a time when life was uncomplicated, faith was sincere ... and love was a gift to be cherished forever. Includes author's favorite holiday recipes.


***** [ Monday, Dec. 5 - morning - 10]

The Christmas Bus
Author: Melody Carlson
Genre: Holidays - Religious - Spiritual

*** Previously Offered: October 4, 2009 ***
DESCRIPTION: The people of Christmas Valley always celebrate Christmas to the fullest extent. The mayor plays Santa, every business is holiday themed, and there's a nativity for the kids each Christmas Eve. This town knows Christmas. But this year nothing goes according to plan. Shepherd's Inn is full of strangers, Mad Myrtle is causing problems, and a young couple with a baby due any minute rolls in to the middle of town in their Partridge Family-style bus. It's hardly the holiday Christmas Valley wanted--but it may be just what they need. This charming novella is sure to become a new Christmas tradition for readers who love a great holiday story.

*****

The Open Innovation Marketplace: Creating Value in the Challenge Driven Enterprise
Author: Alpheus Bingham
Genre: Business - Systems and Planning

DESCRIPTION: The Open Innovation Marketplace introduces groundbreaking strategies for leveraging a world of innovators to develop breakthrough products faster, with lower cost and risk. Drawing on their experience building InnoCentive, the pioneering open innovation platform, the authors show how to dramatically increase the flow of high-value innovations your organization can discover-and deliver.

*****

The Culture Cycle: How to Shape the Unseen Force that Transforms Performance
Author: James Heskett
Genre: Business - Systems and Planning

DESCRIPTION: The contribution of culture to organizational performance is substantial and quantifiable. In The Culture Cycle, renowned thought leader James Heskett demonstrates how an effective culture can account for up to half of the differential in performance between organizations in the same business. A follow-up to the classic Corporate Culture and Performance (coauthored with John Kotter), this book explains how culture evolves, can be shaped and sustained, and can promote both survival and innovation in tough times. Drawing on decades of field research and dozens of case studies, Heskett introduces a powerful conceptual framework for managing culture and shows it at work in a real-world setting. Heskett's "culture cycle" identifies policies, practices, and behaviors that are crucial to moving cultures forward and demonstrates how to calculate the economic value of culture through the "Four Rs": referrals, retention, returns to labor, and relationships with customers.

*****

Over Fields of Fire: Flying the Sturmovik in Action on the Eastern Front 1942-45 (Soviet Memories of War)
Author: Anna Timofeeva-Egorova
Genre: Military - History - World War II

DESCRIPTION: This is a quite unique story of courage, determination and bravery in the face of tremendous personal adversity. The many obstacles Anna had to cross before she could fly first the Po-2, then the Sturmovik, are recounted in detail, including her tough work helping to build the Moscow Metro before the outbreak of war. Above all, Over Fields of Fire is a very human story - sometimes sad, sometimes angry, filled with hope, at other times with near-despair, abundant in comradeship and professionalism - and never less than a large dose of determination! ABOUT THE AUTHOR Anna Alexandrovna Timofeeva-Egorova was born on 23 September 1916. After attending school she had hoped to learn to fly but this wish was delayed due to one of her brother's becoming a victim of the Communist security system, which deemed him an `enemy of the people'. After a number of setbacks Anna learned to fly, and during the first part of the Great Patriotic War flew Po-2 biplanes for the 130th Aviation Signals Squadron, being shot down three times. She then switched to flying the fearsome Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmovik ground-attack aircraft with the 805th Ground Attack Regiment (805 ShAP), 197th Ground Attack Division. Anna flew approximately 270 combat missions before being shot down in the summer of 1944, being severely injured and taken prisoner by the Germans. Thanks to her determination, and the skill, dedication, care and kindness of numerous individuals, she made a remarkable recovery and was liberated when the Soviets overran her POW camp near Küstrin in 1945. However, her troubles were not over, as the Soviet authorities initially believed her to be a traitor and collaborator and subjected her to 11 days of continuous interrogations. She was released, although her injuries were such that was medically discharged from the Air Force in 1945. She continued to fight to clear her name after the war - she was eventually reinstated into the Communist Party and in 1965 finally received the award of `Hero of the Soviet Union'. She died in October 2009

*****

Freedom From the Lies You Tell Yourself (Ebook Short)
Author: Marie Chapian
Genre: Religious - Spiritual

DESCRIPTION: Learning to deal with your thoughts is the first step on the road to healthy thinking. In this book Dr. William Backus and Dr. Marie Chapian explain the life-changing method they call "Misbelief Therapy." It's remarkably simple, incredibly effective, and thoroughly biblical. It has helped thousands of people for many years, and it can help you too!

*****

Trace's Psychic (Supernatural Bonds, Book One): 1
Author: Jory Strong
Genre: Erotica

DESCRIPTION: Book 1 in the Supernatural Bonds series. Homicide detective Trace Dilessio has always considered himself a regular meat and potatoes kind of guy-a red-blooded man who likes his women with big boobs, a nice ass, and legs that don't stop. Aislinn Windbourne is a whole different type than what he usually goes for. And even though he hates psychics-especially those that get tangled up in police business-Trace can't seem to fight his obsession for the delicate beauty who makes him feel both primitive and protective.Years of being shunned in Elf-space because of her half-elf, half-human blood have made Aislinn cautious about opening her heart-until she meets Trace. He beguiles her from the start, and among Elves such a reaction usually means that a couple is destined to form a heartbond. But even as love chases away her loneliness, every time Trace rejects the magic that's part of who she is, Aislinn fears that this human world might be every bit as painful as the one she grew up in.

*****

Firms of Endearment: How World-Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose
Author: Jagdish N. Sheth
Genre: Business - Human Resources and Personnel Management

DESCRIPTION: Through a series of real-life vignettes from well-known companies, the 11 brief, well-written chapters compellingly argue that many of today's successful businesses foster intrinsic cultures that embrace values for the stakeholders as well as the shareholders; for them, it is more then just politically correct, it is the only way. This is a book that every undergraduate and every business leader should be required to read.

*****

The English Heiress (Heiress, Book One)
Authro: Roberta Gellis
Genre: Erotica - Historical Romance

DESCRIPTION: Blush: This is a sensual romance (may have explicit love scenes, but not erotic level). First in the Heiress series. Leonie de Conyers' life had been destroyed by the French Revolution. Her mother and brother died in the prison where she had been raped and starved for no greater crime than her father's title. And her father died in an escape engineered by a stranger who claimed he had come to bring her to England where she would inherit the property and wealth of an uncle. Did Leonie dare to believe in such altruism? Roger St. Eyre's life had been destroyed by the girl he fell passionately in love with. Solange did not love him; she was selfish and vicious and extravagant. By the time she died, Roger felt dead himself. Perhaps he was hoping for the peace death brings when he set out to wrest his old friend Henry de Conyers from the murderous grip of the French Revolution. Instead, Roger and Leonie found love and reasons to live-if they could escape exposure to the revolutionary fanatics and their favorite toy, the guillotine.

*****

What's Stopping You?: Shatter the 9 Most Common Myths Keeping You from Starting Your Own Business
Author: R. Duane Ireland
Genre: Entrepreneurship

DESCRIPTION: In this trim but comprehensive and engaging book, Barringer and Ireland (Entrepreneurship: Successfully Launching New Ventures) dispel the myths that prevent the typical American from starting a new business. The authors weave their academic research and business incubation fieldwork with stories from real life startups, refuting claims that entrepreneurship entails colossal risk, requires a great deal of money, demands extensive business experience or is dependent on the perfect product or service. This book is refreshingly pragmatic while still being encouraging; it addresses the obstacles at each stage of entrepreneurship, including overcoming psychological barriers to quitting a day job, identifying and developing the right idea, financing and running effective public relations and marketing campaigns on shoestring budgets. Simultaneously upbeat and instructive, this book offers the aspiring business owner a practical push toward taking the entrepreneurial plunge.

*****

Insights from Remarkable Businesspeople (Collection)
Author: D. Michael Abrashoff
Genre: Business and Investing

DESCRIPTION: A brand new collection of essential insights for your business and career from world-renowned experts...now in a convenient e-format, at a great price! Get it straight from the top: secrets only the world's best leaders can tell you! What it takes to lead your team to greatness! Outstanding leaders tell you how to identify and fix even the biggest problems...get buy-in that's real...balance external customers and internal processes...infuse creativity throughout your organization, and reinvent its future...get results, not salutes!


***** [ Monday afternoon - 1]

The Flinch
Author: Julien Scott
Genre: Mind - Health - Body

DESCRIPTION: A book so important we refuse to charge for it. Julien Smith has delivered a surprise, a confrontation, a book that will push you, scare you and possibly stick with you for years to come. The idea is simple: your flinch mechanism can save your life. It shortcircuits the conscious mind and allows you to pull back and avoid danger faster than you can even imagine it's there. But what if danger is exactly what you need? What if facing the flinch is the one best way to get what you want?Here's a chance to read the book everyone will be talking about, before they do. What are you afraid of? Here's how to find out.


***** [ Monday late evening - 50]

The Second Coming: A Horror Short Story

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Shower ... [Check forum list for this erotica title.]

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Double Dare

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Winds of Change

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The ABCs of Erotica ... [Check forum list for this erotica title.]

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High School is a Jungle

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Dr. Love

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Seducing My Beefcake Roommate ... [Check forum list for this erotica title.]


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Bourbon Affair

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Dark Earth

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For The Sake Of Sin

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The Quill Pen

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A Fall from the Walls of Troy

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An Essay ... [Check forum list for this title (not erotica).]


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Diary of a N$$pho ... [Check forum list for this erotica title.]


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Judgement

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Teddy Bear: A Short Story

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Gabby...All About Me

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The Dressing Room

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The Shower

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Killer Temptations ... [Check forum list for this erotica title.]


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All Things Austria

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Inkubus Sampler ... [Check forum list for this erotica title.]

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Naughty Cinderella (Adrianna's Fairy Tales)

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Barb's S$xual Awakening: A short story from the "True Life Erotica" collection

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Fall Into Erotica: An Autumn Anthology

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eBully

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Age of Dreams

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Blow ... [Check forum list for this erotica title.]

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While I Was Learning To Become God

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Bad to the Bone

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Aztec Vampire: Bloodthirsty Gods (vampires and werewolves - paranormal romance)

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Casey's Night In (The Mirage Agency #1.5)

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Hot Tales: 8-Guess Who is Coming for Dinner?

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My Life as a S$x-o-Gram: Book One

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DarkAge

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MILF Stories: Mrs. Daniels

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The Phoenix and the Watchers' Bargain (The Phoenix Odyssey)

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Touring the Afterlife

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Wild West Women of Some Gumption (Historical Adventure Series)

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The Undead: Zombie Anthology


R$pper's Row ... ... [Check forum list for this erotica title.]

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God in the Machine: a short story

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Stolen (The Madame X School ... [Check forum list for this erotica title.]

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Expedition Force (Mercenaries of Earth)

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Expedition Force II (Mercenaries of Earth)

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The Trouble With Spells (Of Witches and Warlocks)

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Detective John Sanders' Er$tica Noire ... [Check forum list for this erotica title.]


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The Comfort of a Woman ... [Check forum list for this erotica title.]

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Needing Nita (Serve and Protect Series)


*** [ Monday - More late evening - 1 ]


A Practical Guide to Risk Management

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The Mermaid ... [Check forum list for this erotica title.]


*** [ Tuesday - morning - 3 ]

Witch & Wizard: The Fire - Free Preview: The First 34 Chapters
Author: James Patterson
Genre: Science Fiction - Fantasy - Magic
** Pre-Order for December 15, 2011 **

DESCRIPTION: Whit and Wisty Allgood have sacrificed everything to lead the resistance against the merciless totalitarian regime that governs their world. Its supreme leader, The One Who Is The One, has banned everything they hold dear: books, music, art, and imagination. But the growing strength of the siblings' magic hasn't been enough to stop the One's evil rampage, and now he's executed the only family they had left. .Wisty knows that the time has finally come for her to face The One. But her fight and her fire only channel more power to this already invincible being. How can she and Whit possibly prepare for their imminent showdown with the ruthless villain that devastated their world-before he can truly become all-powerful? In this stunning third installment of the epic Witch & Wizard series, the stakes have never been higher--and the consequences will change everything.

***

A Holiday Sampler: Delicious Excerpts From Your Favorite Authors
Assorted Authors
Genre: Action - Adventure - Holidays
** Pre-Order for December 19, 2011 **

DESCRIPTION: This free eBook contains the complete essays Six to Eight Black Men and See You Again Yesterday by David Sedaris. Celebrate the holidays with eight great excerpts from bestselling authors like David Sedaris, James Patterson, Brad Meltzer, Nicholas Sparks, and more.

***

Change.edu: Rebooting for the New Talent Economy
Author: Andrew S. Rosen
Genre: Business - Policy

DESCRIPTION: Rosen, chairman and CEO of Kaplan, Inc., has written a smart, easy-to-read overview of the weaknesses of colleges and universities and the benefits of the fast-growing private-sector colleges, one of which, Kaplan University, he heads. He argues that too many public and private universities focus on campus amenities and institutional prestige rather than what their students learn and that community colleges provide access but have an unsustainable financial model. Private-sector universities prosper only because they give students new skills, so they pay close attention to what their students learn and how they can learn better. Rosen presents data and analyses that challenge the usual criticisms of private-sector universities-that they don't educate and they charge too much, misuse government funds, and recruit too aggressively. While this book will not quiet all critics, it effectively identifies weaknesses in both the nonprofit and the public sectors and should stimulate college presidents to reconsider some of their priorities. VERDICT: A well-written and thought-provoking critique of contemporary higher education of interest to all readers concerned about the future strength of American society. '


[The above are from Joyce's free-book alerts Sunday-Tuesday in the forums.
 12/4, 3;  12/5, 10; 12/5 - afternoon, 1; 12/5 - late evening, 50; 12/5 - more late evening, 2; 12/6, 3 -- total 69 books for Sunday through Tuesday morn'.

Amazon's own ongoing listing of LIMITED-TIME OFFERS - Promos   Amazon sorts these by Bestsellers first.   I've added a by Low-to-High pricing. Editors' Picks: $1.99-$3.99   for December

Free contemporary books: subsets Filters out excerpts, chapters, previews US:  by Last 30+ days  Nov 2011    Publication Date   Late-listed    Bestselling   High-ratings UK:  by PubDate   Popular

Ongoing popular discussions   (See Kindle Forums for more.)
  . Kindle Fire for nonTech person?   Newer
  . Kindle Fire Keyboard.. Anyone else having issues?   Newer
  . Any happy Kindle Touch owners?
  . Kindle Fire video on airplane compared with iPad video, a tense thread :-)   Newer
  . Got my Fire!
  . Feel like almost crying - Kindle loss and personalizing Kindles - lighthearted
  . Unusual calls from Amazon because of forum posts
  . Personal docs now sendable to individual Kindles again
  . To Avoid Confusion, Please Use the Official Product Names in Forum" [entertaining]
  . Discussion of geographic restrictions on digital purchases
  . Discount-alert books discussed on separate message thread (Newer)
  . What have been your favorite public domain books that are not so well known?
  . Best "Free" books you've read (many are no longer free, however).
  . Highly recommended Indie authors
  . Unique Uses of Kindles

Other current forum threads that might interest some
Public Library Lending questions at the forums, and Lendle's Kindle borrowing
  . How many e-books does your public library have?
  . Public librarians: what has been your Kindle/Overdrive experience?
  . Changes to lendle (This is Kindle owner-to-Kindle owner lending.)
      The changes include incentives for offering loaners



Kindle Touch 3G   Kindle Touch WiFi   Kindle Basic   (UK: KBasic)   Kindle Fire
Kindle Keybd 3G   (UK: Kindle Keybd 3G)   K3 Special Offers   K3-3G Special Offers   DX

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Check often: Temporarily-free late-listed non-classics or recently published ones
  Guide to finding Free Kindle books and Sources.  Top 100 free bestsellers.  Liked-books under $1
UK-Only: recently published non-classics, bestsellers, or £5 Max ones
    Also, UK customers should see the UK store's Top 100 free bestsellers.

  *Click* to Return to the HOME PAGE.  Or click on the web browser's BACK button .

Free Kindle books (11/29-12/2 - 112 books). + Kindle Fire Guide by Bufo Calvin. + A free book with new X-Ray feature + Discounted-book forum alerts + Amazon promos

FREE/DISCOUNTED KINDLE BOOKS DISCOVERED BY FORUM MEMBERS

Nov.29-Dec. 2: - Tuesday thru' Friday afternoon: 112 newly-free books, plus discounted ones as of 12/2 for the same time period, so far. (See page 2 of this blog entry (if you're reading this on the Home page) for details.)


The House of the Whispering Pines, by Anna Katharine Green, 12 customer reviews, 4.0 stars, $0.00 (Link: amzn.to/house-whispering-pines )

The new X-RAY feature for Kindle Touch:
I'm including this Kindle book because Chloe from the Kindle forums mentioned it as a free book that has the new X-ray feature, for those who now have a Kindle Touch model.  Many have wondered what it is actually like, in a book.  I explained some of it at The X-Ray reference tool - What it does but that doesn't do much good if you can't see it in action, and it's hard to know which of the newer Kindle books has been given this feature.


Curious Folks Ask 2: Our Fellow Creatures, Our Planet, and Beyond, by Sherry Seethaler, 19 customer reviews, 4.3 stars, $0.00 (Link: amzn.to/curious-folks-ask-creatures )

Published by FT Press Science, the Product Description says:
"This is the eBook version of the printed book.
  Drawn from her San Diego Union-Tribune column.
  "For those of us with science questions that range from the profound to the fanciful, Sherry Seethaler is here with the answers. She not only educates with this wonderful collection, she entertains." -- John Cannon, Quest editor, San Diego Union-Tribune

  "If you want to learn about the 'Mpemba effect' (why hot water sometimes freezes faster than cold), if you have a burning desire to know about the biosphere we live in, if you have ever wondered about why those pesky black holes don’t swallow the universe and what’s beyond the ‘edge’ of the universe, Sherry Seethaler has a knowledgeable, well-written, and research-based answer for you..." -- Christopher Y. Wu, PhD, Associate Director of the NSF-funded Advanced Technological Education (ATE)


The following highlighted book the other day had a bad link and didn't work, so I'm reposting this one for 1.5 days
Write Good or Die, by Scott Nicholson, 14 customer reviews, 4.4 stars, $0.00 (Link: amzn.to/write-good-or-die )

  These are artcles on how to survive as a writer in today's world - collected by author Scott Nicholson, focusing on both the craft and the business.  Advice from bestselling authors.
  All proceeds benefit the non-profit organization Literacy Inc., which promotes reading among teens (although at $0.00, there won't be any for the promo deal.)


A Kindle book that costs more than $0.00 but will be well worth it for those wondering how to work this Kindle Fire thing

Love Your Kindle Fire: The ILMK Guide to Amazon's Entertablet, by Bufo Calvin, 9 customer reviews, 4.8 stars, $2.99 (Link: amzn.to/love-your-kindle-fire )

Bufo Calvin is the author of 5 other Kindle books and is very popular in the Amazon Kindle forums for his clarity and good humor in answers to questions there, which he does on his own time.  He also has a best-selling Kindle-Edition blog, "I Love My Kindle."

  Calvin goes through each menu option, step by step, explaining what each does.  A lot of the book is in conversational Question and Answer format, in which he interviews himself with the types of questions he has seen most, from the Kindle forums and at his blog, but most important, with some very thorough answers.
  (As this is included in an evening blog posting Friday, it'll also be used for a Saturday listing of free book titles released (if even more are released Saturday) and highlighted finds at the top.


Children's Fiction, Grades 1-4


Saturday's Kindle Daily Deal (changes at midnight) is Ivy and Bean: Book 1, by Annie Barrows, 89 customer reviews, 4.2 stars   (Link: http://amzn.to/to-defy-a-king )

  Thursday's price: $3.99, Saturday's discount: $3.00
Saturday's Kindle Daily Deal Price: $0.99 (75% off)

"...will appeal to children who are graduating from beginning readers.  The occasional black-and-white illustrations highlight the text and provide visual clues.  The characters are appealing, the friendship is well portrayed, and the pranks and adventures are very much on grade level. –- Eve Ottenberg Stone, Cooper Lane Elementary, Landover Hills, MD, School Library Journal"


  MORE... ( The temporarily newly-free books and discounted-book forum-alerts are on a 2nd page, off the Home page, which will help loading of the main page more quickly.  Those reading this on the Home Page and wanting to go see the details on this specific post can do so by: clicking on "MORE" just below - 112 newly-free Kindle books today)
*****

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LATEST DISCOUNTED Kindle books (some temporarily) -
  Forum-thread starter RandomizeME cautions, "This thread is [only] for discounts and price drops that readers find from publishers."  Another main finder is Emily Bronte.
  For 11/29-12/2 (posts)

Emily Bronte reports
  . There are pre-ordered books from HarperCollins, w/ bonus material, for $0.99-1.99
  . some Christmas specials from Hachette for $1.99
  . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt with 2 from Amazon's Best of 2010 for $1.47 and 2.84
  . Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2005, "Chronicle in Stone," for $2.99
  . The Incredible Tito: Man of the Hour, by Howard Fast, (a pre-order, Amazon Digital, Dec 13, $0.99

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TEMPORARILY-Free Books:  Alerts from the Amazon Kindle forums - via the tireless "Happy Reader" Joyce, who is ever on the lookout on behalf of forum members.

  NOTE: The alerts are quoted from Joyce's roundup, from several sites, of mostly temporarily-free books.  They're *not* recommendations by anyone but are a popular, unfiltered daily set of forum release-alerts by Joyce, logged here for those who don't or can't make it to the forums.  The eBooks are often no longer free within days, sometimes, within hours.  Thanks to Joyce for gathering and organizing them for us.

' [AnnieB and Joyce, back from vacation Thursday, Dec. 1, posted these]

*****
[Tuesday, 11/29,  Late Night, 16 books - AnnieB says]
Hi everyone. I thought Amazon might give me a break but no.....they want to feed your Kindles. :-) There are 16 books tonight...

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SuperMegaNet, Vol. 1
*****
SuperMegaNet, Vol. 2
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A Christmas Jar for Santa - A Christmas Jars Story
*****
Voices Beckon, Pt. 1: The Voyage
*****
Spirit Lights
*****
One Torrid Beginning
*****
Unnatural Time (Infinity, Ltd.)
*****
Always
*****
Nosebleed
*****
Necrochip
*****
A Belt Buckle for Camilla
*****
Through Smoke: Book One in the Troubled Heroes Series (A Firefighting Thriller)
*****
The Chupacabra: A novella
*****
The Imperium vs. The Rebellion (Muzik Chronicles)
*****
The Reiver (A Scottish Border Romance)
*****
The Expat's Pajamas: Barcelona
*****

[Wed., 11/30 - 7 books - AnnieB says]
Good morning everybody.
There are 7 free books this morning. A couple have been offered before and the rest are new. Hope everyone finds some thing they like.

*****
Lie Down in Green Pastures (The Pslam 23 Mysteries)
*****
The Prayers of Agnes Sparrow
*****
Digital Media and Technology in Afterschool Programs, Libraries, and Museums (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning)
*****
First Frost (Mythos Academy)
*****
eye of the god
*****
Kids and Credibility (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning)
*****
The Fence My Father Built


*** [Thursday, December 1, Joyce is back! and lists 60 books]

Miyamoto Musashi's The Book of Five Rings (Infinite Success Series)
*****
Samuel Smiles' Self-Help
*****
The Feel Good Factory on Great Sex
*****
Drop a Dress Size (52 Brilliant Little Ideas)
*****
Stress-proof Your Business and Your Life
*****
Scrumptious EXCERPT (Free)
*****
The User's guide to the Rabbit (52 Brilliant Little Ideas)
*****
Charles Mackay's Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (52 Brilliant Ideas)
*****
Calm your hyperactive child (52 Brilliant Ideas)
*****
Indigo Blues
*****
Carl von Clausewitz's On War (Infinite Success Series)
*****
Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince (Infinite Business Classics)
*****
Marry Me (Zebra Historical Romance)
*****
Cultivate a Cool Career (52 Brilliant Ideas)
*****
Bullying (52 Brilliant Ideas)
*****
Enjoy Retirement (52 Brilliant Ideas)
*****
Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self-Reliance (Infinite Success)
*****
Transform Your Life (52 Brilliant Ideas)
*****
Networking (52 Brilliant Ideas)
*****
Have it Your Way (52 Brilliant Ideas)
*****
Boundless Energy (52 Brilliant Ideas)
*****
Healthy Children's Lunches (52 Brilliant Little Ideas)
*****
Writing bestselling children's books (52 Brilliant Ideas)
*****
Frank Bettger's How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success (Infinite Success Series)
*****
Haunted Illinois: Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Prairie State (Haunted Series)
*****
Rain of Bullets: The True Story of Ernest Ingenito's Bloody Family Massacre
*****
The Lazy Winner
*****
Boost Your Child's Confidence (52 Brilliant Ideas)
*****
Incredible Sex (52 Brilliant Little Ideas)
*****
Lose weight and stay slim (52 Brilliant Ideas)
*****
Secrets of porn star sex (52 Brilliant Little Ideas)
*****
Child of the Mist (These Highland Hills, Book 1)
*****
World's best romance tips
*****
Be your own best life coach (52 Brilliant Ideas)
*****
Helpful herbs for health and beauty (52 Brilliant Ideas)
*****
Little Book of Big O's (52 Brilliant Little Ideas)
*****
Haunted New York City: Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Big Apple (Haunted (Stackpole))
*****
Raising teenagers (52 Brilliant Ideas)
*****
Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations (Infinite Success Series)
*****
Design on a Crime (Deadly Décor Mysteries, Book 1)
*****
Erotic Fantasies (52 Brilliant Little Ideas)
*****
Harlequin Holiday Collection: Four Classic Seasonal Novellas: And a Dead Guy in a Pear Tree\Seduced by the Season\Evidence of Desire\Season of Wonder
*****
Bound for the Holidays: Ties That Bind, book 1
*****
O Little Town: A Novel
*****
World's best stress-busting tips
*****
Benjamin Franklin's The Way to Wealth (Infinite Business Classics)
*****
Dangerous Grounds: Seattle Steam, Book 1
*****
Priced to Move (Shop-Til-U-Drop, Book 1)
*****
Haunted Virginia: Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Old Dominion (Stackpole Haunted Series)
*****
Jinxed (Friends and Lovers Collection)
*****
The brilliant book of calm (52 Brilliant Ideas)
*****
Love, Unexpectedly
*****
10 People Every Christian Should Know E-book
*****
Play great guitar (Manga Life)
*****
C. Northcote Parkinson's Parkinson's Law (Infinite Success)
*****
Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich (Infinite Business Classics)
*****
A Hearth in Candlewood (The Candlewood Trilogy, Book 1)
*****
Karl Marx's Das Kapital (Infinite Success Series)
*****
Power-up Pilates (52 Brilliant Ideas)
*****
Fred Schwed's Where are the Customers' Yachts? (Infinite Success)


***** [Thursday, December 1 -- 2 more free books]

Socs and Greasers: Behind The Scenes of The Outsiders from Rob Lowe's Stories I Only Tell My Friends
Author: Rob Lowe
Genre: Memoir - Biography

*** Pre-Order for January 3, 2012 ***

DESCRIPTION: A scene taken straight from Rob Lowe's New York Times bestselling memoir, Stories I Only Tell My Friends, a wryly funny and surprisingly moving account of an extraordinary life lived almost entirely in the public eye. In Socs and Greasers, Lowe tells us what it was like to work on the set of The Outsiders, a film that helped launch the careers of many of today's biggest stars, including Tom Cruise, Patrick Swayze, Matt Dillon, Emilio Estevez, Ralph Macchio, C. Thomas Howell, and Rob Lowe himself.

***

John Green eSpecial: An eSpecial from Dutton Children's Books
Author: John Green
Genre: Contemporary Fiction

  *** Pre-Order for December 08, 2011 ***

DESCRIPTION: The John Green Free eBook Sampler is the ultimate introduction to bestselling, award-winning author John Green. Featuring excerpts from Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns, and his newest novel, The Fault in Our Stars, this free eBook preview gives an unforgettable sample of Green's brilliant-and brilliantly funny-books.


***** [ Friday, December 2 - 27 more books at 8:01 PM pst ]
27 Free Books

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All I Want For Christmas
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Her Last Letter
*****
The Steel Valentine
*****
The Path Home
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Dan's Party (Maybourne Series)
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King Jeremy
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Exterium
*****
Daddy Catches His Little Sl$t (Daddy Sex Stories)
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Fading Away
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Metamorphosis
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Holiday Rush (from Holiday Flirts! 5 Romantic Short Stories)
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North of Sunset
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Pirates of Savannah: The Hunt for Shamus's Booty
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Cultivating Love
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Parallel Worlds
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Lily Marin - three short steampunk stories
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The Last Man
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An Elementary Study of Islam
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The Interview
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Four Kisses (contemporary romance)
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Socialite 1 Book 1: Bees to Benny
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The Half-Life of Johnny Seiko - Part I: Hard Lessons (The Seiko Odyssey)
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Sweet Masterpiece (The Samantha Sweet Mysteries)
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The Resurrected -- Part One
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Dynamics
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Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man's Back
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Avoiding Space Madness (Fantasy of a Novel Idea) '


[The above are from Joyce's free-book alerts Tuesday-Friday, aided by Lucy/Annie B., in the forums.
 11/29, 16;  11/30, 7, 12/1 - morning, 60; 12/1 - later, 2; , 27 -- total 112 books for Tuesday through Friday night. (27 more came in while I was about to post the article.]

Amazon's own ongoing listing of LIMITED-TIME OFFERS - Promos   Amazon sorts these by Bestsellers first.   I've added a by Low-to-High pricing. Editors' Picks: $1.99-$3.99   thru' December 3

Free contemporary books: subsets Filters out excerpts, chapters, previews US:  by Last 30+ days  Nov 2011    Publication Date   Late-listed    Bestselling   High-ratings UK:  by PubDate   Popular

Ongoing popular discussions   (See Kindle Forums for more.)
  . Kindle Fire for nonTech person?   Newer
  . Kindle Fire Keyboard.. Anyone else having issues?   Newer
  . Any happy Kindle Touch owners?
  . Kindle Fire video on airplane compared with iPad video, a tense thread :-)   Newer
  . Got my Fire!
  . Feel like almost crying - Kindle loss and personalizing Kindles - lighthearted
  . Unusual calls from Amazon because of forum posts
  . Personal docs now sendable to individual Kindles again
  . To Avoid Confusion, Please Use the Official Product Names in Forum" [entertaining]
  . Discussion of geographic restrictions on digital purchases
  . Discount-alert books discussed on separate message thread (Newer)
  . What have been your favorite public domain books that are not so well known?
  . Best "Free" books you've read (many are no longer free, however).
  . Highly recommended Indie authors
  . Unique Uses of Kindles

Other current forum threads that might interest some
Public Library Lending questions at the forums, and Lendle's Kindle borrowing
  . How many e-books does your public library have?
  . Public librarians: what has been your Kindle/Overdrive experience?
  . Changes to lendle (This is Kindle owner-to-Kindle owner lending.)
      The changes include incentives for offering loaners



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Kindle Keybd 3G   (UK: Kindle Keybd 3G)   K3 Special Offers   K3-3G Special Offers   DX

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Check often: Temporarily-free late-listed non-classics or recently published ones
  Guide to finding Free Kindle books and Sources.  Top 100 free bestsellers.  Liked-books under $1
UK-Only: recently published non-classics, bestsellers, or £5 Max ones
    Also, UK customers should see the UK store's Top 100 free bestsellers.

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