I’ve been harping on Jeff Bezos, the kindle, and the lack of wishlist support (still not there), and swearing I wasn’t going to buy another paid book till they fixed it. And indeed, I’ve been using Project Gutenberg, and manybooks.net, to get my books for free, reading lots of classic lit that I never was willing to pay to read.
Anna K is a good book. Madame Bovary has been mostly underwhelming so far.
But today, I discovered the amazon tag “kindle freebies”. There are 24 pages of actual books, and a few sorta-cliff-notes-esque summary/bibliography collections. And they appear to really be free, though you have to assign a credit card to the transaction anyways. Apart from the summary collections, they appear to be decent quality and unabridged. I bought at least 2 dozen, including stuff like The Jungle, Treasure Island, and even some modern stuff like Red Mars. Of course, one of the first books I bought was the combo of Red Mars/Green Mars, so that one was more a curiosity.
There are a couple of romance novels by current authors, that seem to be available for free to get you hooked on the author. Hopefully more authors will try this.
