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There are loads of free classics available from the Kindle store.

I heard a programme on Radio 4 extolling the virtues of Great Expectations, which I've never read.

Ah ha, I thought, I'll get it from the Kindle store. Turns out it's not free.

Mentioned this to my partner, who said 'Yes it is!'

She has an amazon.com account set up while she was in the US. When she logs in it's free. If I log in to my amazon.com account, which knows from my IP address I'm in the UK, it's chargeable.

Guess it must be something to do with the Dickens estate over here still wanting royalties...

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Depends where you look... For example - Project Gutenberg

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1400

Copy the file to the Documents folder on the kindle and Robert's your father's brother.

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Yes Amazon 49p or as Lord Nikon states free elsewhere.:erm::)

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And since Project Gutenberg is a totally legitimate online ebook resource I can quite happily mention it here.

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Yes it is a good place to look for ebooks.:)

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Thanks for that, although I don't have a Kindle. Copied to the relevant folder on PC & Samsung Galaxy S... :tu: :)

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The kindle firmware 3.1 is out

If you have wifi on it /should/ download it in the background and install when it goes into sleep mode.

Anyway - more info here

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custom...deId=200529700

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We have just got a Kindle. Looking great so far.
Our Library (Hants) does ebook loans in Adobe ePub format. These can be converted to mobi using a nice tool called Calibre. :)

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I have recently brought a Sony E-reader its a PRS 350! (what ever that means lol!?)
I paid just over £160 for it from Tesco! seemed OK the first couple of days, came with 200 books built in all Charles dickens so a few were a good read, I had a look at the kindle and think it does the same thing but I do want it!! With the Kindle can you order books from there or is it like mine and you have to manually plug the device into the PC/Laptop and then sync on the application that comes with the device hmmm :)

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You can order books from the kindle store and download them using your kindle.

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That sounds better!
But with the 3G ones can you download when your out and about? (providing your in reach of a good strength wifi signal.. :erm: )

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If you have the 3g one you don't need a wifi signal, just a mobile one.

And yup you can download books through the mobile network when you are out and about.

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Aw that would be useful!
Hmm think I'll think about this one first :)

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If you buy stuff from the Amazon site - even if you 'buy' something that's free - it immediately gets downloaded for free over 3G if you have it and have a signal, otherwise when you connect by wifi or USB.

If you get the content somewhere else - say a pdf from Project Gutenberg for instance - then you get 2 special email addresses. You email the stuff to one of them and it gets automatically converted to mobi and added to your kindle.

One of them is a free service - the download happens as soon as you connect by wifi or usb. The other goes via 3g and you're charged a fee. I've never needed to use that so far.

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If anyone likes SF, here is a collating site of lots of free stories (all legal) - quite a few in Kindle format.