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posted by [personal profile] quinn222 at 04:59pm on 18/07/2009
I just placed the order for my Kindle (yeah! I've been saving for months), so who can refer me to good sites, groups, LJs, blogs etc.? As I recall there's a fanfic group of some sort isn't there?

I'm very excited. It was a new TV or a Kindle and since I don't really watch all that much TV but I read all the time it came down to the Kindle.
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posted by [identity profile] joymaro.livejournal.com at 09:07pm on 18/07/2009
I has one too! But, boo for me, because I can't order from Amazon since I don't have a credit card with an US addy. I'm thinking of getting a gift card and registering it with my brother's address.

http://ireaderreview.com/2008/01/19/free-books-for-the-amazon-kindle/
http://www.43folders.com/2008/06/06/free-books-your-amazon-kindle
http://thekindlewarehouse.com/free-kindle-ebooks/
http://www.feedbooks.com/discover/
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://www.mobipocket.com/en/HomePage/default.asp?Language=EN
http://www.mobipocket.com/freebooks/default.aspx
http://www.free-ebooks.net/
http://www.readprint.com/

Also, I c/p online stories to a .doc and send it to my user@free-kindle.com or user@kindle.com addy and it re-formats it for Kindle.

Much fun.

If you find the fanfic group, lmk!
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posted by [identity profile] quinn222.livejournal.com at 09:12pm on 18/07/2009
Thank you! Can't wait to explore all those links :-)
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posted by [identity profile] shadownyc.livejournal.com at 09:13pm on 18/07/2009
Congrats on getting your new Kindle -- enjoy!
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posted by [identity profile] kel-reiley.livejournal.com at 10:14pm on 18/07/2009
beware amazon - i just read an article where they rescinded ppl's ebooks b/c the publishers no longer wanted to provide them
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posted by [identity profile] quinn222.livejournal.com at 10:46pm on 18/07/2009
rescinded? If you already bought and downloaded it how can they rescind it?
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posted by [identity profile] court1429.livejournal.com at 12:18am on 19/07/2009
They crept in in the dead of night and TOOK THEM OFF YOUR KINDLE!! For real. And get this. The books were Animal Farm and 1984!!!!! Oh, the Big Brother irony burns hot on this one. They were all, "but we refunded everyone's money."

Makes me wonder if they could do the same with music we've purchased? I never joined one of those music subscription services because you were basically just renting the songs; if you got a new computer or stopped your subscription, your music library went away. So I always thought owning was the better plan, but evidently, not in the Kindle!verse. And yet, I still really really want a Kindle.
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posted by [identity profile] vlredreign.livejournal.com at 12:29am on 19/07/2009
So do I. Like, a really lot. My husband promised me one.
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posted by [identity profile] bksbracelet.livejournal.com at 04:56am on 19/07/2009
I am such a techno twat I had to Google what a Kindle was....sounds interesting may have to think about it.
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posted by [identity profile] vwlphb.livejournal.com at 11:30pm on 19/07/2009
On LJ, there's [livejournal.com profile] i_call_it_vera for ebooks (and audiobooks), and [livejournal.com profile] kindle_fanfic and [livejournal.com profile] fanfic_ebooks for fanfic in Kindle format. ([livejournal.com profile] fanfic_ebooks has a website archive that the [livejournal.com profile] kindle_fanfic people use.)

Then there's Truly Free, where you can download about ten ebooks every two weeks, and manybooks.net, which is actually my favorite of the bunch. manybooks.net has free/collective commons and public domain books, and you can download it in Kindle format.

A lot of these places will have books in a non-kindle friendly format. A fantastically helpful program is Mobipocket Creator, where you can convert doc, pdf, html, and some other files into .prc files, which can be read on the Kindle. (A lot of files will be read on the Kindle, but converting it lets you add formatting and proper titles and authors to it, etc. Plus pdf has to be converted and the email conversion didn't work the last time I tried.)

Another useful program is Converter Lit, which will explode .lit files into html and doc files so that they can be converted to be read on the Kindle.

I've had my Kindle for about five months now and I love it to pieces. I bet you will too. If you have any questions, feel free to ask :D

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posted by [identity profile] quinn222.livejournal.com at 12:12am on 20/07/2009
Thanks so much! Lots to explore :-)
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