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Kindle for PC is a free application that lets you read Kindle books on your PC.

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Kindle for PC is a free application that lets you read Kindle books on your PC.

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Kindle for PC is a free application that lets you read Kindle books on your PC.

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Kindle for PC is a free application that lets you read Kindle books on your PC.

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class="align-right" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/image53.png?54167" alt="read articles kindle" />I love my class="vt-p" href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tags/kindle/">Kindle. For a tech writer, I don’t actually have many gadgets – but the Kindle is one I would never trade. Being able to read an endless variety of books on one slim device with a paper-like display makes me feel like I’m actually living in the future. But sometimes, a book isn’t what I need. Sometimes I just want to read a lengthy, well-written magazine article that would make me feel smarter or better informed.

Another good reason to read long-form articles is that you can finish them in one sitting; that always gives me that satisfying “Saturday morning with the paper” feel, if you know what I mean. class="vt-p" href="http://delivereads.com/">Delivereads is one lovely way to get your long-form fix on the Kindle.

First, here’s what the site itself looks like:

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It says that the first step is to “let your Kindle know” they’re coming. Your Kindle has an email address, but only those addresses you enter into Amazon’s “white list” can use it. So go to Amazon’s class="vt-p" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/digital/fiona/manage#pdocSettings">Manage My Kindle page and add Deliverads to the list of allowed addresses.

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The address, as you can see, is dave@delivereads.com. “Dave” is Dave Pell, the guy behind Delivereads, who curates the articles sent out using Delivereads. Now that you’ve added Dave to your white list, you need to find your own Kindle’s email address, to tell Delivereads where to send content to. That address is on the same page, under Your Kindle Devices:

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Now let’s take this address and paste it into the Delivereads page (yes, that’s my Kindle’s email. To each his own!).

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Note that you don’t paste the whole address in, but just the beginning, and then use the drop-down to select the correct suffix. Then just click Subscribe, and get the following message:

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That’s it! As simple as could be, really. A welcome message should appear on your Kindle within an hour, and then you’ll get long-form articles every now and then for your reading pleasure.

The Content

You may be curious to know what you’re subscribing to, what sort of articles you’d be getting every week. Here is the current crop, as of this writing:

• class="vt-p" href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2011/07/the-brain-on-trial/8520/">Atlantic: The Brain on Trial
• class="vt-p" href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2011/07/how-to-land-your-kid-in-therapy/8555/">Atlantic: How to Land Your Kid in Therapy
• class="vt-p" href="http://thefastertimes.com/news/2011/06/16/aol-hell-an-aol-content-slave-speaks-out/">Faster Times: An AOL Content Slave Speaks Out
• class="vt-p" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/sports/playmagazine/20federer.html?pagewanted=print">NYT: Roger Federer as Religious Experience
• class="vt-p" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-schienberg/facebooking-frank_b_876647.html">HuffPo: Facebooking Frank

I read the piece about AOL, and it was very good. I used to write for Download Squad (an AOL property), and working there wasn’t like that at all. It was still interesting to see what other parts of AOL looked like. It took me about 5-10 minutes to read the article – just enough time for a relaxed cup of coffee.

Alternatives

While Delivereads is very well executed, the idea of delivering long-form articles for the Kindle is not groundbreaking. class="vt-p" href="http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/sendmestory-recent-interesting-newspaper-articles/">Send Me A Story were there first, but I haven’t received anything from them for months now. Here’s hoping Delivereads proves more consistent and persistent.

Do you know of similar services, maybe ones not curated by a single person?

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class="align-right" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/mobiicon.jpg" border="0" alt="books for kindle" />With the availability of so many free or affordable e-reader programs and devices for both Mac, PC, and mobile device users, you can find some good free ebooks – especially classical literature – to download and start reading in a matter of a few minutes. With Kindle being the class="vt-p" href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/reader-kindle-ipad-geeks-weigh">most popular of e-readers – both in its software platform for Mac, PC and mobile devices, and its hardware versions – many websites have popped up to provide free downloads of what is called the Kindle or .mobi formats for Kindle e-readers.

First off, if you don’t know how to download free Amazon Kindle ebooks to your PC, check out Karl’s article class="vt-p" href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-download-completely-free-amazon-kindle-ebooks-to-your-pc/">here and see my class="vt-p" href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/reading-ebooks-ipad-ibooks-amazon-kindle-mac/">article about how to add and read Kindle books on your Mac and Apple mobile devices.

class="vt-p" href="http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=2245146011">Amazon.com Free eBook Collection

Before we delve into the 5 other online sources for Kindle books, let’s remind ourselves that Amazon.com has a section of  class="vt-p" href="http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=2245146011">free ebooks - mainly older, out-of-copyright and pre-1923 books – that you can browse and download to your Kindle. Popular current features include Leo Tolstoy’s classic War and Peace and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.

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Amazon’s free ebooks listings are easy to browse and download. You can sort the list by Bestselling, Avg. Customer Review, and Publication Date, and Price: Low to High.

class="vt-p" href="http://www.manybooks.net/">ManyBooks

ManyBooks has a well organized listing of popular free ebooks, including the mobile format. A good place to start browsing on this site is its class="vt-p" href="http://www.manybooks.net/categories/">Categories page which lists over 60 genres of books – including Adventure, Banned Books, Fantasy, Politics, Satire, and Science Fiction.

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When you select a book, you need to click on the accompanying pull-down Download button to get a list of ebook formats, many of which include .mobi.

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class="vt-p" href="http://freekindlebooks.org/">FreeKindleBooks

FreeKindleBooks is not a visually appealing site, but it too offers thousands of Kindle-compatible ebooks in the classical category. This is the site you go to if you‘re looking for books by writers like Charles Darwin, Emily Dickinson, W.E.B Du Bois, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Homer, Sarah Orne Jewett and William Shakespeare.

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Titles on this site do include book cover images. When you click on a title, the linked .mobi version, like the above image, will download to your computer or mobile device.

class="vt-p" href="http://www.mobipocket.com">MobiPocket

MobiPocket has over 116,000 listings. What sets this site apart is that it includes Kindle books in various international languages, including French, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, and Russian.

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Book categories include Juvenile literature, US politics, Criminology, history and the like. Unfortunately, listings don’t include descriptions beyond the author and title.

class="vt-p" href="http://justfreebooks.info/">JustFreeBooks

If you’re not finding what you’re looking for on any of the sites above, you might try the search engine, JustFreeBooks.

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This site searches over 700 websites for free listings. The search results for titles will include the available formats of ebooks, including Kindle .mobi.

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class="vt-p" href="http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page">Project Gutenberg

Established in 1971, Project Gutenberg has the largest single collection of free electronic books on the Internet.

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You mainly search by title and catalog to find ebooks on this site. But you also can check out its Bookshelf listings, which includes 80 different categories of ebooks. If you’re an avid reader, you could easily spend hours on this site.

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Clicking on a title also brings up listed ebook formats. There’s also a link to read ebooks online.

These are the free Kindle ebook sites I found the most well established and easy to use. If you know of other sites that should be added to this list, please let us know about them.

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Kindle for PC is a free application that lets you read Kindle books on your PC.

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Kindle for PC is a free application that lets you read Kindle books on your PC.

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Kindle for PC is a free application that lets you read Kindle books on your PC.

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Kindle for PC is a free application that lets you read Kindle books on your PC.

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