READ THIS if you have an ereader

[Kirsty]

I was looking at one of the books on my goodreads to read list and was going to check out the price on amazon when I noticed that under the book blurb in bright green, next to the option to buy a copy, it said 'download' - turns out some books you can download for free! The book I got is Kafka on the Shore so it's not out of copyright - only thing I can think is that the author has allowed sharing (which I've read you can do in some countries on kindle).

Later I'll see if it will go straight on my kindle and I'll let you know :D

[Sophia]

If you want free ebooks then check out Project Gutenberg. They have thousands of them - but mainly old classics out of copywrite.

[Kirsty]

I had an app on my old iphone that you could get books from and that's how I discovered PG. I have about 35 classics on my kindle.

I haven't been able to find any other free pdf books - bizarre.

I did try to convert the file but it didn't work.

[Sophia]

For converting try Calibre. It's a free program and really useful for converting to/from almost any format. You need to turn it into a mobi file for kindle :-)

[Kirsty]

I found it a few weeks ago when I needed to convert epub to mobi. I haven't tried it on pdf files though (unless one sneaked in - it seems to like opening up to grab book files when I'm anywhere near them). Thanks Sophia.

[Sam (VanillaFountain)]

Did you figure out how to do this? Have my Kindle arriving tomorrow and have no idea how to do it. Could you send via the usb cable? I am a dunce with technology :(

[Kirsty]

it's a different format - try downloading the app 'calibre', drag and drop file or see if opening it adds it to the calibre library then use your usb cable to send to device (kindle) and say yes to converting the format :)

[Sam (VanillaFountain)]

I downloaded A hundred years of Solitude but it seems to be coming up in a different language :(