While Amazon has hundreds of free eBooks you can download and send straight to your Kindle, let’s be honest, most of them are old classics, which you might have already read by now. Thankfully, since the Kindle supports most e-book’s format such as Mobi, PDF, etc, you can download ebooks on your computer and sent it to your Kindle device. Here, I have made a list of best places to find cheap/ free e-books for your Kindle.
Before we begin
To put ebooks on your Kindle you can either sent it to your @kindle.com email address (to find the email address go to the Devices tab in your Amazon account) or you can traditional method of connecting the Kindle to your computer via USB cable, and drag and drop the PDF file to the Kindle “documents” folder.
With that out of the way, let’s begin.
Best Places to find Ebooks for Kindle
1. Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is one of the best places to get public domain E-books for free. Even though it started as a volunteering operation, it now has over 59000 books free to use without any copyright. You’ll find works of authors like Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Tolstoy, Oscar Wilde, etc. Expand your library with the classic titles from Gutenberg.
Many of these are books are already included in kindle unlimited.
Check out Gutenberg
2. Open Library
Another awesome place to find E-books is Open Library. It has been around for a while and has a catalog of 20 million books across different genres such as Science, Biographies, Sci-Fi, Romance, Fantasy, etc. You can simply download the free books to the kindle using a computer or try the alternative method of mailing the books shown on their website.
Check out Open Library
3. Mobile Reads
Mobile reads is a community forum dedicated to the discussion and love of books. You can find like-minded people to share their favorite books and have intellectual discussions. It is a great way to build your library and explore different works of authors.
Check out Mobile Reads
4. Open Culture
Another great collaboration, Open Culture is all about building a library of quality cultural and educational media for you to access. You can do much more than just download E-books, you can listen to audiobooks, watch movies, take free online courses, and learn different languages. It has more than 800 free E-books which is not huge but great for reading new things. You’ll find works of authors such as Chomsky, Stephen King, Edgar Allen Poe, Neil Gaiman, etc.
Check out Open Culture
5. Library Genesis
Library Genesis is a search engine dedicated to finding less known titles by foreign authors from around the world. You can find free E-books for your Kindle across any genre and even works which are often not digitized.
Check out Library Genesis
6. Many Books
Inspired by the Gutenberg Project, Many Books aims at offering free E-books to users across different genres. Even though Many Books share a major chunk of content with the Gutenberg Project, you can easily find exclusive titles on this website. The books are neatly organized in categories and you can find relevant material on African-American Studies, creative Commons, Gov publications, Instructional works among fiction, and more mainstream genres. If you’re into non-fiction audiobooks, here are our favorite picks.
Check out Many Books
7. BookBoon
We all know how expensive academic books can be. BookBoon helps alleviate that problem by offering close to 900 academics books for free in digital form. It includes subjects like economics, engineering, IT and the natural sciences. It also has a professional section which caters to professionals with subjects such as personal development, marketing, management, accounting, and computer software skills.
Check out BookBoon
8. OverDrive
The US has more public libraries than McDonald’s restaurants which makes you wonder the number of books they’d contain. OverDrive makes it easier to access all that content right from your Kindle. If you live in US, all you need is a valid student ID or Library pass to get started with OverDrive. You can easily loan books from the library just like you used to when Kindle wasn’t a thing.
Check out OverDrive
9. Standard Ebooks
Standard Ebooks, just like Gutenberg and the Internet Archive is all about offering free and public domain books to users. However, Standard Ebooks differentiates itself by offering only the most beautifully curated and typographically aesthetic works on their website. You will find titles by Robert W. Service, Emile Gaboriau, Charles Babbage, and many more. If not anything else, you’ll love this website for its near-perfect preservation of books.
Check out Standard Ebooks
10. Riffle
Riffle is a great site to get Ebooks for cheap. The site is always running different deals and you can get some sweet finds on here. Or you can check out their curated list of books created by users on Riffle. Sure you won’t find many A-listers easily but it’s worth a try. Also, you should check our list of Blinkist Alternatives to read more in less time.
Check out Riffle
11. Humble Bundle
Humble Bundle is the most unique way of buying books online. It is a gaming store developed around helping other charities. You can purchase a book bundle and pay what you want, they let you decide how to split the price among the charity, publisher and the website. The best part; you fix the price of a bundle which means the more you pay, more content you get. There are Sci-Fi bundles, Puzzles, Food, and academics to choose from.
Check out Humble Bundle
12. Bookbub
Bookbub is a free newsletter which tells when the books you want to read are on sale. Simply enter your email address, select the categories that you like to read (you can also choose the authors you follow. And that’s it. You will get daily emails of deals on books/authors. On a good day, you can find bestsellers like “Game of Thrones” for $1.99.
Check out Bookbub
Best Ebooks deals for Kindle
These were some of the places which offer awesome curated content. There are plenty of services like Scribd which give you access to unlimited content but doesn’t offer a lot of clarity on how much. Then there is Google Books which has a huge database of 25 million scanned titles but not all of it is available in public domain. kindle unlimited is Amazon’s own service which gives you access to their catalog for a fixed subscription. However, you can also check out dedicated subreddit like r/freeebooks and r/ebookdeals. What do you think of this list? Let me know in the comments below and suggest me some books to read.
