Earning money from the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library
In other news, I have joined Lars in becoming a Kindle Fire owner. It’s nice, though I haven’t used it a lot yet. I need to install wi-fi at home. I see there are a number of classic books on Kindle for free. I pulled down Thoughts on Art and Life, some Jonathan Edwards’ sermons, and several Wodehouse novels. Does anyone have any recommendations?
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The ESV Bible has been free for Kindle for some time. I think it still is.
I installed the epub reader addon for my SeaMonkey browser and I can now read Troll Valley from within my browser.
Project Gutenberg has tons of epub books for free.
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/
The Christian Classics Ethereal Library has an extensive array of public domain books. Online html and pdf versions are generally free. Epub and Kindle versions can be had for a price.
http://www.ccel.org/read/
If you want specific recommendations, go for Augustine’s Confessions, George MacDonald’s At The Back of The North Wind (which I allude to when I call my house, “At The Back Of The North Woods), or Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton.
I’m currently reading True Christianity by Johann Arndt, translation by Rev. A. W. Boehm. This book was at the foundation of the Lutheran Pietistic movement of the early 1600’s. I’m only a few chapters into it, but I can already see why, when our pioneer immigrant forbears could only carry a Bible and one or two books with them to the frontier, this was a popular choice to read and re-read.
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34736
Dickens’ Martin Chuzzlewit is my favorite public domain novel – it’s touching with a bit of his deus ex machina and a healthy dose of satire.
G.K. Chesterton and Rudyard Kipling both died in 1936. Need I say more?
When I’ve read their complete works, I’ll download something else to the Kindle Touch we got in November…
OK, slight exaggeration. The very first thing I downloaded was the ESV bible, which as Lars points out is free. (Who owns the ESV, btw? We should send them thanks for their Christian charity in releasing it freely electronically almost as soon as it was published – I’ve had it on E-Sword for years – in marked contrast to, say, the publishers of a now 30+ years old Version that used to be Nearly Inevitable, who still hang on to it with clenched fists…).
Also, Lars and my mutual acquaintance Steve Schaper pointed out on FB a few days ago that Nancy Pearcy’s Saving Leonardo is now available for less than $3 on Kindle, if that’s something you’d be interested in.
I believe the ESV belongs to Crossway Books.