April 23 is Book Day, a very special day for billions of reading fans around the world; and if we are not, it can be the perfect excuse to start that book that we had left unopened. And in 2024, it is very likely that we will do it in an electronic book reader, or eBook, like Amazon’s Kindle or its great alternative, Kobo e-books.
These devices have integrated electronic stores, which allow us to buy books directly from the device and download them to memory; but what perhaps many people do not know is that they are also capable of showing books that we have downloaded from other sources.
And with that, we’re not talking about piracy. Although it is true that this is still a big problem in the industry, in reality You don’t have to visit illegal sites to get free books; There are large libraries available for anyone who wants to find them, as well as promotions and offers.
Free books for the Kindle
One of those promotions on the occasion of Book Day comes from Amazon, which is giving away e-books during this period. Specifically, the company has reduced the price of many books to 0 euros, so they are technically free; All we have to do is buy them as usual, but we will not be charged anything for adding them to our Kindle account.
This campaign is called ‘Stuff your Kindle’, and we can access it from this link. We can find all kinds of books on various themes and genres, both in Spanish and English; It is advisable to visit the Amazon page and review the list of available books, because we may find a hidden gem or a topic that interests us.
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But it is not only Amazon, and it is not only Kindle, that will allow us to find free books. And we must remember that there are many free books for free distribution, for many reasons; For example, many of the great classics of literature can be downloaded without breaking any laws, because they have passed into the public domain. There are also authors who prefer to publish with free licenses that allow distribution without limitations.
Finding public domain books is very easy, because there are several websites dedicated exclusively to it. The most famous is Project Gutenberg, which compiles more than 70,000 public domain e-books, many in Spanish, and completely free. Once downloaded, we can transfer them to the memory of our book reader by connecting it to the computer and with a program like Caliber.
We can also download these books to our Android mobile, and read them with an app like Google Play Books. In fact, many people do not know that Google Play has a section for electronic books, and that it also has a section for free books or with discounts to 0 euros. Obtaining a book from this platform is very easy with our mobile phone and can save us a boring afternoon.
