The books do not always stay free. If you have an interest in a book download it while it is free because if you check back in a couple days the book may have a cost. To download; buy the book on Amazon like you would buy any other book. Add it to your shopping cart and checkout. Because the book is free the total will be $0. Then in your Kindle app you can go into you archived books and move the book over to Kindle app memory. The book is then on your phone or Touch so you did not need Internet access after that to read it.
I have a iTouch so I only have access to the Internet when in a wi-fi hotspot. But once I have moved the book into the Kindle app it is in the iPod Touch memory and I can read the entire book without having Internet access. >I was saying that when an ebook is free, it's usually free everywhere. People that have purchased a Sony Reader and have invested $250 or more on a device use the Sony Book site and see what is available there.
The book that I showed a picture of is available at the Sony site for free. But for those people without a Sony Reader telling them that they can get a free book if they go buy a $250 device is not a lot of help. EReader.com has free software for the iPod Touch/iPhone and they are not offering the book shown above for free. They have it but it cost $15.99.
Nov 25, 2010 finally a way to download good quality books on ipod touch website: drinkmalk.com/books/list.xml. While the transference of ebooks from iPod touch 5 to computer is not an easy task, this post will focus on the transference of ebooks from iPod touch 5 to.
I looked at Barnes and Nobles and they have the book for free and Barnes does have a free reader for the iPod Touch. I did not target people that have already purchased dedicated devices because those people know they have a ebook reader and they tend to look around and see what is free for their reader. People buy an iPod Touch/Phone for numerous other purposes and don't always think that they also have an eBook reader. I really did get your point. You wanted to let people with an iPod/Phone or Touch that they can get free ebooks. I don't disagree with that, and it's nice to spread the word. I was pointing out that you don't need an ebook reader (Kindle, Sony or otherwise) or a $300 iPod Touch/Phone to get free ebooks.
You usually don't even need an account at an online bookstore to get them. I didn't want someone to say, 'Oh, I don't have an iPhone so I can't get that' or 'I don't have an ereader so I can't get free ebooks' or 'I don't have an Amazon account so I can't get that.' As a non-American, non-Kindle and non-iTouch owning person I read a lot of articles and news bits that make it seem like people only have 1 or 2 options when it comes to ebooks. Personally, I usually only buy or download pdf ebooks so I can read them on my laptop if I'm in the mood.
There are options. Not arguing here. Just gathering some additional info. You say 'You usually don't even need an account at an online bookstore to get them.' To get free books from standard publishers you almost always have to go through an online bookstore.
(For books out of copyright you can use Project Gutenberg.) Where are you downloading free ebooks where you do not have to have an account? The book that I was using as an example I only see available free at these locations: 1) Amazon 2) BN 3) Sony Point two: A new 8gb iPod Touch can be purchased for $180.
That is still not free but is significantly less than $300. A 32gb Touch is $278. I have a dozen ebooks, a handful of podcasts/songs on mine, and some pictures and have 7gb of memory sitting open.
(That is on the 8gb model). Thank you - I don't want to argue either. Free books should always be a happy thing.:) I know it's sometimes hard to tell online. So, point one: It may be that these particular books ARE only available from those stores. If so, that's very shortsighted of those publishers. Though to be fair I suppose it's the main place that a lot of people would go.
I was speaking more in general, which is where some confusion might have come in. There are one or two places I check that have free books every month that aren't bookstores, but are from publishers. I also occasionally look at the free books posted at MobileRead (). They also have a wiki with suggestions for free books ().
It may depend on what kind of books you like to read. Point 2: I have an 8gb iPod Nano and it's over half filled with music. When I get a Touch I'm going to have to get a 16gb at the very least if I'm planning on using it for music, games, apps, tv and books. A 16gb iTouch is $260 here, and the 32gb is $300. Plus 13% tax.
I live in Canada, where our national motto should be: we pay more. (Though I admit the gap here isn't as large as I would have expected.) Annoyingly, Canada's national book chain finally got an ebook store (Shortcovers) and it is focusing more on selling to people who use mobile devices like the iPhone or Blackberry rather than ereader owners. Also (of course) the books are more expensive. I think I may send them a note pointing out all of the free books that other bookstores have they they don't.
I guess it boils down to how lazy/inventive people are when it comes to getting books. I fall somewhere in the middle. If I come across mention of a free book that sounds interesting I'm willing to get creative in finding a format I want, but I don't actively look for them often. Just out of curiosity, though.
Will the pc Kindle software allow people to borrow library books through Overdrive? I gather it used to be a problem, but I'm not sure if they ever fixed it.
I managed to get my ebooks from my pc to ipod touch i n a round about way by converting them to jpeg format (and just transfering the pictures) using a program called 'PDFill Writer' from download.com if your ebooks are in lit or pdf formats you can get convert to txt or doc programs. Open your file in your word processing program.
Then you might have to increase text size, go to file then print instead of using your normal printer change to PDFill pdf&image writer when it comes up click on the jpeg tab on the toolbar then the create image button and that is that hope this works for you. Click to expand.Nobody can make apps like that, even though many people would agree that it would be useful, because Apple doesn't allow using USB cables to transfer files to the Touch. I do have a jailbroken Touch, which does let me transfer files onto it through the USB cable, but apps from the app store aren't made to work with files that way, so copying ebooks over to your Touch from USB doesn't let apps like Stanza open them. Sometimes you can fool apps into working with files copied this way, but then odd things creep in, because that's not how they were designed to work. So I agree with the posters who suggested you get a wireless router. Unfortunately, that's the best way to get ebooks onto your Touch. That's right, I'm using a PC, and it can't do the router thing.
But it's alright, since I'm going to my sister's place in a week, and she's got wi-fi. But about the transfer files to ipod touch (or iphone) over USB thing: I've been working a bit on the problem, to try to get my ebooks on the ipod, and I found a great program: iPhoneBrower does the trick, you can navigate through your iPhone's folders and files just like any other device. So I used that to transfer my pdf ebooks to the image folder, and read them with readdle docs.
But then that's not a very good solution, because readdle docs isn't really designed for ebooks-reading, and it's really uncomfortable. So I thought: why not do the same thing with eReader? So I converted my pdf files to pdb, and put them in the same folder where the example books given with the app are, but when I look on my ipod touch, it just isn't there.
I spent quite a lot of time trying to find a solution to the whole problem, and I didn't get anywhere, so I'm just gonna wait a few days until I get wi-fi access ^^. I finally found the perfect solution!!! Ok, so this is how it works for people who, like me, want to get ebooks from your pc to your ipod touch or iphone over the usb cable.
I copied-pasted this from lexcycle's faq: Transferring books via the USB cable (for epub or eReader) 1. If your books are in any format but eReader or epub, then convert your books to epub using Stanza Desktop or Calibre. Download and install the shareware 'DiskAid' utility from, which allows you to transfer files over to your iPhone using the USB cable (note: you do not need to install the companion 'FileAid' software on your iPhone) 3. Connect your iPhone to your computer using the USB cable and launch DiskAid 4. Make sure the drop-down menu in the lower-left corner of the DiskAid window is set to 'Media Folder'.
Select the 'DCIM' folder from the list of folders on the left-hand side of the window. Click the 'Create Folder' button and name the new folder 'Stanza'. Select the new 'Stanza' folder, and then click the 'Copy to Device' button. Browse your computer for your books and add them to the folder.
The next time you launch Stanza, all the books in that folder will be automatically imported into Stanza's library (and removed from that folder). Note: any software that can transfer files over to the iPhone can be used for this method of transferring books in bulk. When Stanza launches, any files it finds in the folder named '/var/mobile/Media/DCIM/Stanza' will be imported into Stanza. It's a bit long the first time, since you have to download stanza desktop and install everything, but once you did it a few times, it's easy as can be! I hope this post will help a few wi-fi-less people!