Best Free Online Books For Kindle

Introduction

This is the most comprehensive listing of legal and free ebooks for the Kindle having over 150 sites that legally offer free Kindle ebooks. The links here provide all their works in Kindle compatible formats.  I did not include PDF works as many Kindle users complain that those do not display properly.

As of November 16, 2013, there are 81 sites listed that monitor Amazon for limited time free ebook offerings as well as 71 sites that offer Kindle compatible ebooks of their own.  There are also several links and tips on finding the many free ebook offerings from Amazon.

You do not have to have a kindle device to read kindle books.  A kindle application is available for every major smartphone, computer and tablet.   Additrionally, Amazon has a Kindle cloud reader available, so you do not have to use software or download the ebook to read (free registration and residency requirements).

A major source of free Kindle ebooks is Amazon.  These are generally only available to those residing in the countries where Amazon operates and free registration is required.

However, there are many other sources of free Kindle ebooks on the web, where no registration or residency requirements exist.

For a complete listing of the free ebook pages here at Gizmo's, see

A comprehensive alphabetical listing of free books for reading or listening can be found on these pages:

There will be other Kindle compatible ebooks at sites listed there, but on some sites not all of the listings are Kindle compatible.  The sites here have all their offerings in Kindle compatible formats. 

This listing does not inlcude audio books and the audio books found at the pages above will generally all work within Kindle.

Also, if you just came here looking for free ebooks, I would suggest that you take a look at the rest of the site.  The free ebooks listings are a small part of the great information available here.  This site is mainly for review of free softwares.  Each of the reviewers is a volunteer and has a personal interest in their software category, so you will get an unbiased review from an enthusiast of that software type.  In almost all cases, a free software can do the task of any paid software just as well, if not better.

Amazon

There are many thousands of free ebooks at Amazon.  Finding them all can be confusing, but hopefully this article will help. As I live in the USA, and the Amazon USA site is the only one that I can search accurately, the links here are for the USA Amazon site.  However, using Jungle Search and  the hints here, you may use the information here for any of the Amazon sites.

Amazon Limited Time Offers (USA)   (UK)

I have set this at the top as this is the listing of free Kindle ebooks at Amazon that are only available for a limited time.  There are genre listings for these free listings in the left side of the page.  The number of free offerings varies, but appears to be over 200 free books at any given time.  At the time this article was created, there were 231 free ebooks listed.  Click on link above to access.

If you find a title you like, then grab it as these offers do expire.  There are sites that monitor Amazon for these free offerings listed below. 

Amazon Best Sellers

Amazon also lists the 100 best selling ebooks in many of the genres available there.  In addition, they also list the best sellers (I assume most downloaded) that are free.  Some of the genres will have the full 100 and some will not, but this will get you to some more of the free Kindle ebook listings at Amazon.  Supposedly, these are updated hourly

On the left hand side is again a listing of various genres and by clicking on those you can get to the free listings for that genre.

I will give the basic ones that you can work from:   

On each one of those, you will be able to navigate to sub-categories to find additional free Kindle ebook listings.

Amazon Free Popular Classics (USA)     (UK)

As the title says, this is Amazon's listing of free classic Kindle ebooks.  This is pretty much going to be the same batch as the public domain search through Jungle search, but should provide a way to access more of the over 15,000 free classics (again  due to the 400 page limitation).  Again, using the sort options should help to access more.  Click on link  above to access.

Amazon Price Low to High

You may also go to the regular Kindle ebook search at Amazon and use the sort option of Price Low to High to find futher free Kindle ebooks available.  I put up the basic links for this below.  Once you are at any of these links you may click on the departments, or genres, on the left and you will be taken to the Low to High sort page for that department or genre.

Jungle Search

Jungle Search is a search engine designed for searching at Amazon.  The link above is for the USA search, but they also have a search engine for France, Germany, United Kingdom and Canada (links at top of page).  I assume that if you are not in any of these countries, then Amazon will not be available to you and only the listings for your country will be available.  The information below is regarding the USA Amazon free Kindle eBooks.

Jungle search may be used to find free Kindle ebooks at Amazon by entering a 0 in both of the price range boxes on the Kindle Search tab.   If you enter the 0s and select the bottom option to include public domain works, you will be taken to a page which indicates that there are over 50,000 free Kindle ebooks at Amazon (first link below). 

Unfortunately, I am unable to get the search results to go past page 400, which means all that may be accessed on any given search is maximum 4800 free Kindle ebook listings.   This is true for any of the searches where the resuls are greater than 4800.  I believe that there are over 50,000 free Kindle ebooks at Amazon and by using various different searches, you can get to view more of the total free Kindle ebook listings at Amazon.

I have thrown up a few different USA Amazon searches that will help to get started.  For each one, on the left there is a "Departments" listing, which is a category listing of the books.  By clicking on those you will be able to get to more of the free listings.  Also, for each of these and each of the Department listings, there are "Sort" options in the upper right of the page.  By using the various sort options, you will be able to see more of the free listings.

First some variations of the combination of Public and Non-Public Domain free listings:

 Similar links for Public Domain only free listings:

And the same for Non-Public Domain free listings:

There are many other options to use with Jungle Search, including reader ratings and  age (from baby to teen) as well as various sort options.  If any of you have a favorite way to access more of the free Kindle ebook listings through Jungle Search, please post the resulting page at Amazon and what you entered at Jungle Search in the comments below and I will immoratilize you in this section.

Independent Sites That Monitor Amazon For Free Kindle eBooks

There are sites that monitor Amazon for free ebook offerings.  Many of these you wil find on the links above, but these may reveal unfound freebies and are generally easier to follow.  These all appear to be for USA listings only.  These include limited time offers and these sites should be followed regularly to take advantage of all available.

A thanks to Jill (jillnojack) for providing information on a number of dead links in this section after the recent change in policy from Amazon for sites that like these.

Addicted To eBooks allows authors to post their ebooks when offered as a limited time free ebook offfering at Amazon.

A to Zwire monitors the USA and UK Amazon sites daily for limited time free ebooks. They only list ebooks that have a rating of 4 stars or above after at least 25 reviews each.  They list about 13 free ebooks daily.  Thanks to Corey F for this link.

Author Marketing Club  monitors Amazon (USA) for daily free ebook offerings. The amount listed varies from day to day.  They do offer genre selection.

Bargain eBook Hunter does not offer as many listings as others in this section, but has very detailed reviews of the offerings that it has.  They also offer search by genre for free listings.  They do offer RSS and eMail updates, but not just for the free offerings (includes bargains).

Best eBooks Free  a mix of bargain and limited time free ebook offerings from Amazon (USA) separated into several genres.  eMail updates by genre are available.  Thanks to Rayven for this site.

Book Freebies  posts several limited time free ebook offerings from Amazon (USA) with a synopsis of the novel and informaiton on the authors.  eMail updates are available.

Book Goodies  monitors Amazon (USA) for limited time free ebooks offerings.  They list several free ebooks daily and have an individual description of each ebook.

Book Goodies For Kids  monitors Amazon (USA) for limited time free children ebooks offerings.   There is a nice category selection with a couple of free ebooks per category.

Book Tour Radio maintains a listing at Pinterest of daily free ebook offerings from Amazon (USA) and sometimes also (UK).   They list several offerings per day.  You have to go through a couple of links to get to Amazon.

Centsless Books  monitors Amazon (USA) hourly for limited time free ebook offerings.  They have a large listing and a wide range of genre listinngs to narrow the search.

Daily Cheap Readsoffers up a few free Amazon ebooks daily.  Updates by email are available.

Daily Cheap Reads Jr.a children's version of the above, a few free Amazon offerings daily.  Updates by email are available.

Daily Free Books (UK) monitors Amazon (UK) for its daily free offerings.  They offer genre selection as well as sorting by time (including since your last visit).  They also offer free listings from Smashwords, which can be viewed with the Amazon offerings, alone or not at all (Amazon only).  They have over 6,000 free ebooks listed.

Daily Free Books  monitors Amazon for free offerings.  Has hundreds of free listings daily. and offers excellent category listings.  RSS feed available.  Thanks to Frank Blake for this.

Daily Free eBooks does not seem to list as many freebies as the other sites in this section, but does offer detailed review and information on their listings.  Offer email updates and RSS feed.

Digital Book Index posts a daily list of the Best Free Kindle Books which is a listing of the best rated limited time free ebook offerings from Amazon.

Digital Book Today  has daily posts of limited time free ebook offerings from Amazon (USA), usually totaling about 35-45 ebooks per day. These posts are mixed in with some other posts about authors and books.  They also post their own top 100 list of free ebooks at Amazon (USA).

eBook Lister  posts a large listing of the daily offerings of limited time free ebooks from Amazon (USA).  Nice feature is that you may choose a genre listing for the daily results.  eMail updates are available.

eBooks Habit  offers daily listings of free books from Amazon.  Also has links to the top free books in several genres.  email updates available. Thanks to Buddy Elf for this site.

eFree Books  posts a large selection of limited time free ebook offerings from the several Amazon sites around the world (UK, USA, CA, DE, FR & IT).  There are quite a few posts daily and each post is about a specific genre. email updates are available.

eReader Cafe  daily listings of free novels from Amazon.  Seems to average about 5 per day, with detailed information on the book.  eMail updates available. Thanks to Caroline for this site.

eReader Girl  when I first found this site, there were separate listings for the free offerings from Amazon.  Subsequent to the change in policy at Amazon the site now posts the combined bargain and free ebook offerings from Amazon (USA).  There still are a good number of free ebooks listed, with a good description of each book.  The listings are separated into posts for each genre offered.

eReader IQ due to the changes in Amazon policy, they now offer an "abbreviated" listing of the limited time free book offers from Amazon .   They have a nice selection of genres to narrow the listings.

eReader Love  monitors Amazon (USA) for limited time free ebook offerings.  There are only a few listed on the main page, but the 50 Most Recent Books page posts up the last 50 free ebooks.  They have a wide range of genres to help narrow the search and the results there are more extensive than the main page.  eMail updates are available.

eReader News Today looks to come out several times a day with 5 to 10 free Kindle books at Amazon in each listing.  They offer RSS updates.

eReaderPerks  monitors free releases at Amazon (as well as for Nook and Kobo) and has very good category listings, including children and young adults.  Offers email updates.  Thanks to Lorie for this listing.  Subscribers can now get customizable, genre-specific emails with the very latest freebie offers and the second addition is a daily list of the top 43-45 free book finds in all genres posted every morning on the homepage for a quick grab at the newest top-rated gems. (For Kindle, Kobo & Nook).

eReader Utopia  posts a couple of limited time free ebooks from Amazon (USA) daily with detailed description of the free ebook.

FKB free kindle books lists the daily free entries at Amazon (updated daily).  There are a few category listings.  There is also a large listing of categories for the always free ebooks at Amazon.   They offer RSS and email updates for all limited time offers or for each of the few categories they offer for the limited time free ebooks.

Free & Discounted Books  this link is to their colllection of permanently free ebooks at Amazon (USA).  They also feature limited time free ebook offerings in a wide variety of categories.

Free Book Dude  has listings of free offerings from Amazon, with synopsis and review.  Also features guest listings, where, generally, the author posts the listing and information.  Listings are daily and though there is not the number of some of the other sites here, they do give more information on the free books.  Offers RSS feed.

Free Books Hub USA lists a good number of daily free listings at Amazon with a detailed description of the offering.  They have an RSS feed, but I could not find an email update option.

Free Books Hub UK  posts several limited time free ebook offerings from Amazon (UK) daily.  They offer RSS and eamil uupdates.

Free Booksy does not list only Kindle books (they also list Nook and Apple ebooks), but it looks like most of their listing are for free Kindle ebooks from Amazon, so it is worth a look.  They also have a separate listing for free books for children, all of which appeared to be free kindle ebooks from Amazon.

Free Ebooks Blog  posts limited time free ebook offerings from Amazon (USA) twice daily along with "hot deals".  There is an option to sort by genre tag.  eMail updates are available.

Free eBooks Daily has free limited time ebook offerings daily.  They do offer a complete description of the free ebook and often a short interview with the author.  At first it does not look like the site has many offerings, but if you look at the Genre listings on the left, there are several thousand free ebooks listed here.  The genre is very complete and shows how many books in each genre.  RSS feed available.

Free eBooks Download is a Facebook page that monitors Amazon for limited time fre ebooks.  Looks like the site posts about 20 ebooks per day.  Thanks to Finch for this listing.

Free Kindle Books and Tips not all of the listings are free (some are bargains) but this site does monitor Amazon daily for free Kindle ebooks and also free games.

Free Kindle Books UK  monitors Amazon (UK) for limited time free ebook offerings.  Posts a large listing daily.  The listing is separated into many genres, but there is not link to each genre.

Free Kindle eBooks has weekly updates of free offerings at Amazon, but has the nice feature of dividing these into genres.  RSS and email updates are available.

Free Mystery Ebooks  is a Facebook page that monitors Amazon for its limited time free ebook offerings in its Mystery category.  Seems to be updated a few times per day and list about 5- 10 per day.

Free Read Feed (UK) has over 5,000 free ebook listings from Amazon (UK).  They monitor recent free offerings as well as showing some that are always free.  Like their USA counterpart below, the site offers sorting by genre, time offered, length and popularity.

Free Read Feed  (USA) regularly posts, throughout the day, the limited time free ebook offerings at Amazon (USA).  This is an extensive listing of the free ebook offerings, showing the genre (with option to eclude that genre or show only that genre in results) and the length of the ebook.  They have some filtering options, length of ebook and date of free offering as well as a large genre listing option to exclude genres (click on Pick from a list).

Free Sci-Fi monitors Amazon for its limited time free ebooks in the Science Fiction genre.  eMail updates are available.

Free Stuff Times monitors Amazon daily for its limited time free ebook offerings.  They post links to about 100 ebooks per day.

Gospel eBooks has listings of limited time offers on Christian ebooks at Amazon.  A number of the titles did not appear to be religious oriented, but all were free and I  since the site is Gospel eBooks,I guess the books are Christian themed.  Thanks to Dave Faulkner for this suggestion.

Great Books Great Deals  has a listing at Pinterest of permanently free ebooks at Amazon (USA).  You have to click on the link back to their site within the description on Pinterest to get the link to the free ebook.

Heidocoffers search by genre of the limited time free offerings at Amazon.  Daily updates by email are available and you have the option to select updates only for certain genre(s).

Hundred Zeros USA monitors the "Best Sellers" list at Amazon (referenced above) and has all the listings on one page.  They offer RSS and eMail updates.

Hundred Zeros UK  monitors the "Best Sellers" list at Amazon (UK) and offers RSS feeds for this listing for a great deal of genres.

Hunt 4 Freebies monitors Amazon for the limted time offerings of free ebooks and posts around 15o free ebooks daily.  RSS feed, email updates and Kindle app are available.

I Crave Freebies monitors Amazon's limited time freebies and posts links to about one hundred of the free ebooks daily.

iLove Ebooks    Monitors Amazon for limited time free ebook offerings.  Not as many listings as some of the others here, but gives a good description of the ebook and also offers category listings.  A RSS feed is available.

Indie Author Club nice collection for free ebooks at Amazon (USA).  Excellent selection of categories and also language.  They do have email alerts for new free ebooks.  Thanks to Shawn for this site.

Indie Book Of The Day  monitors Amazon for limited time free ebook offerings.

IndieHeart   "Five daily hand-picked books by Indie authors (fiction only). There is a free books newsletter that is not loaded with ads (no ads at all) like some of the other sites that are trying to stay alive. There are also reviews of Indie Books and "The Reader's Blog" which just covers general stuff for readers who enjoy reading Indie books"  Thanks to Jill (jillnojack) for this link and description.

Inkmesh does regular updates on free Kindle books from Amazon throughout the day.

Jungle-Search  offers a listing of the latest 99 free ebooks on Amazon, which is updated hourly.

KeBooks  the new location for former entry I Read Review, they post a daily (sometimes twice daily) list of the limited time free ebook offerings at Amazon (USA).  They do show genres within the posts, but there is no option to see specific genre listings.  They do offer email and Facebook updates.

Kindle Book Promos   monitors Amazon (USA) for daily limited time free ebook offerings.   You need to click on the daily free offerings link up top.  They do also offer genre listings within the daily post.

Kindle Buffet  monitors Amazon for lmited time free ebook offerings.  Not as many listings as some of the others here, but offers a nice review.  Also check the Top Fiction and Top Non-Fiction pages for more free ebooks in a wide variety of genres.

Kindle Classics Blogspot highlights public domain free listings at Amazon (pre 1923) and has a detailed review of each title.  The page says the links are to free or semi-free, but I found all the USA links to be free.  The site links to USA and UK listings.  RSS and email updates are available.

Kindle-Free monitors Amazon for free ebook offerings in 13 genres.  RSS and Twitter updates are available for each of the genres.

Kindle Free Books  has weekly posts of 5 free for a limited time ebooks from Amazon (UK & USA) as well as some special occasion free ebooks.

Kindle Nation Daily  you have to scroll down past the advertisement for a pay book to see the free listings, but they appear to post daily and list a good amount of books each day.    This site was previously listed here, but this is a new link to their display of the free limited time free ebook offerings from Amazon (USA).  Also new is a separate listing of limited time Free Young Adult/Children ebooks from Amazon (USA).  The dates I looked at had 20 or so free ebooks listed daily, with the vast majority being for younger children

Kindle Users Forum monitors free Amazon releases from the UK site.  Seems to be a large daily listing.  Has excellent category listings.  Offers RSS feed.  Thanks to Frank Blake for this.

Megaton monitors Amazon for free limited time offerings of Post Apocalyptic ebooks.

My Book and My Coffee posts several free for a limited time ebooks from Amazon a few times a week.

No Twiddle Twaddlemonitors Amazon for free ebooks for children and post a few per day at the site and also links to a larger listing of free offerings via lists maintained by Bethany, the site owner, at Amazon's Listmania.  Updates available by RSS and email.

One Hundred Free Books  updates hourly free listings from Amazon.  You have the option to choose the latest free offerings or from many category listings.  They also offer Hand Picked listings.  email updates available.  Thanks to Ed Crotty for this site.

Pixel Of Ink is another site that regularly posts free Kindle eBooks listings from Amazon.  They offer eMail updates.

PixelScroll has free Kindle books listings as well as free Kindle Fire Apps and Free Kindle Fire MP3s  listings.  As with the other listings in this section, these are time limited offers.  They do offer email and RSS updates, but those include non-free offerings.

Randomize ME  monitors Amazon (USA UK CA) daily for limited time free ebook offerings.  They also post about free audiobook offers from Audible (owned by Amazon) .  They offer email updates.

Shelf Buzz  handpicks limited time free ebook offerings from Amazon (USA) based upon the cover.  Not sure what that means, but they do have about 5 of the daily freebies listed.  eMail updates are available.

Snick's List  monitors Amazon (USA) for limited time free ebook offerings.  Nice category selection available.  email updates available.

Sweet Free Books  a daily listing of several limited time free ebook offerings from Amazon (USA).  eMail updates are available.  Thanks to Tim9 for this site.

Sweetie's Picks  monitors Amazon (USA) for limited time free ebook offerings and posts quite a few daily.  Each book is released in its own article, so you have to go through several of the search pages to see all of the daily listings. 

The Kindle Book Review  monitors Amazon (USA) for limited time free ebook offerings.  Looks like they post up about a dozen a a time.  They do offer email subscription.

The Vessel Project monitors Amazon for free Christian ebooks.   After the change in policy at Amazon, they have now merged their free ebook listings in with their bargain price listings.   On the days I checked, the free ebook offerings were at the end of the post.

World Library (Free Kindle books  Formerly Free Novel Books, this site lists free ebooks at Amazon several times per day.  Sorts by ratings at Amazon.  Click on "Still Free Kindle Books" up top to see more listings of free Amazon books.

World Literary Cafe has daily forum postings of limited time free ebooks at Amazon.  Interesting twist here is that there are also postings for free offerings that will come up in the near future.

Your Daily eBooks only lists a couple of new free listings each day, but supposedly they limit their listings to the best of the free time limited book offerings.  They do have RSS and email update options.

Other Sites With Free Kindle eBooks

These are some other sites that have free Kindle eBooks or provide links to them.  These sites should be accessible to anyone.  If registration is required, it will be noted in the listing.  Most do not require registration.  These are listed in alphabetical order.  Many of these are available in Kindle compatible MOBI or PRC.  for information on loading these formats in your Kindle, see here:  Kindle FAQ.

Al Islam   has a good sized collection of free Ahmadiyya Muslim ebooks for free download in MOBI, without registration.  These are English translations.  The downloads marked in MOBI are free.  The ones marked KINDLE link to Amazon, where the ones I checked cost money even though same book as the free MOBI download.

All Romance  Has over 1300 free ebooks available for free download in Kindle compatible MOBI (as well as other formats).  Free registration is required.  All are in the Romance genre.

Ancient Buddhist Texts  a large collection of Buddhist works available for free download in MOBI without registration.

Archive Org has a huge collection of works.  Navigating around is a bit of a pain.  The link here is to American Libraries collection as that is the largest collection where all the books I checked were available in MOBI (under the Kindle download link).  The Children's Library is another large collection where all the links I checked were available in MOBI.  Other libraries annd collections will also have MOBI downloads available.

Baen Free Library is a collection of free science fiction novels that are all available for free download in Kindle compatible MOBI format.

Baen CD at the Fifth Imperium has many of the same entries as the Baen Free Library link above, but appears to have some different entries, so I posted this link up.  The downloads arre in ISO or CD, which will show the varrious books inlcuded in each link in each of the many formats available, including MOBI.  This is not as convenient as the Baen Library as the download is larger and all the titles on a CD need to be downloaded.  Still there does appear to be more free titles here.

Ben and MeMarcy, the "Me" of the site name has put together a very impressive listing of ebooks for children that are always free at Amazon.

BooksShouldBeFree While primarily a great source for audio versions of public domain classics, this site also offers ebooks downloads for every title, including a Kindle eBook download (MOBI)  Nicely divided into categories.

Bring The Books  has a large collection of free Christian themed ebooks available for free download in Kindle compatible MOBI or PRC.

Central Seminary  offers three free ebooks for free download in Kindle compatible MOBI.  These are Christian themed works.

Chris Slusser offers 3 of his novels for free download in MOBIpocket  (PRC) (as well as other formats).

Classicly offers "23,469 of the world's greatest free books".  These are available for free download in several formats, including Kindle (AZW).  Thanks to Tyler G for this suggestion.

Cooking With Us offers 65 free cookbooks for free download in AZW.

Craphound offers the free Cory Doctrow ebook, For the Win, for free download in a variety of formats, including AZW.

Cthulhu Chick  offers the complete works of H.P. Lovecraft for free download in MOBI.

Desiring God  has 14 free ebooks available for free download in Kindle compatible MOBI (as well as EPUB and PDF).  These are Christian themed works.

DigiLibraries has over 20,000 free ebooks in a wide variety of genres.  All are available to read online and all are available in Kindle compatible MOBI.

Dr. Widger's Library Project Gutenberg Australia offers the extensive collection of books from Dr. Widger for free download in MOBI without registration.  This link  is  to the collection of ebooks with images, there is also a page for MOBI ebooks without images.

eModern Buddhism offers the 3 volume work, Modern Buddhism, for free download in MOBI (as well as EPUB and PDF).

Examiner   offers a listing of 32 Science ebooks that are always free at Amazon (USA).  There is also a listing of 21 History eBooks that are always free at Amazon (USA).

Falbe Publishing  offers two free fantasy ebooks by Tracy Falbe for free download in MOBI.  The link for the download is sent by email, so a working email is necessary for the free download.

FeedBooks has about 5,000 free ebooks available for free download in MOBI  in their public domain section.  They also have about 3,000 free Kindle ebooks (MOBI) in their Original Books section.  You have to go to the details page for the book and click on the "Kindle" link.  They separate the free listings in to a large variety of categories to help narrow your search.

Felicity Heaton offers her vampire romance novel, Reunion, for free download in a variety of formats, including a free download at Amazon.  (registration there will be required).

Freebook Sifter has links to over 37,000 free ebook offerings at Amazon.  Separate pages for many categories and listing in order of average rating are acouple nice features here.  Also nice is their listing of Added Today, which had over 1600 free ebooks when I looked.  Thanks to Rob Schifreen of our site for this entry.

Free e-books For Kindle very nice collection of free Kindle ebooks (PRC).  These are classics in the public domain.  Sorting by author or title.

Free Homeschool Deals   the page that I previously linked to here is no longer available.  This link is to a search for Kindle at the site and has a good number of free ebook pages (all the ones I saw were to Amazon USA) listed.

Free Kindle Books and Tips  has direct links to Amazon (USA) for the always free offerings in a large listing of categories.

Free Kindle Books Org.is an excellent source for free Kindle ebooks.  They have their own large supply of free eBooks available for free download in Kindle compatible PRC or MOBI.  Also, they have a great feature called the Magic Catalog of Project Gutenberg Free eBooks, which has listings of 29,000 free eBooks at Project Gutenberg.  There are two catalogs available (EPUB and MOBI).  For Kindle, you would get the MOBI catalog and the Magic part is that the Catalog consist of links that you may click on for a direct download of the MOBI version of the eBooks from Project Gutenberg.

Get Free eBooks is a blog listing of free ebooks that has a Kindle only section.  Many of these offerings are time limited.  RSS and email updates are available.

Gizmo's Freeware  editor Rob Schifreen, who maintains the Hot Finds section here at Gizmo's has posted a link to 60+ free books from Microsoft.  All the books are available in Kindle compatilble MOBI for free download without registration.

Goodreads  has a listing of "Popular Free Kindle eBooks".  The listing says there are over 11,000 free ebooks in the list.  This is a mix of newer works and classics, though the vast majority appear to be newer works. They all appear to be free aloo of the time.   All of the works I checked were available at Amazon, through the "Online Stores>Amazon" link on the description page for the ebook.    There is a similar listing of 159 free Kindle eBooks for Young Adults.

iBook Nook offers 50 free ebook classics for download in one zip file.  These are formatted in AZW.

Keep Believing  has 4 free Christian themed ebooks available for free download in Kindle compatible MOBI.

Kindle Free Books (Twitter)  provides links to free Kindle compatible ebooks at Amazon (USA) and Feedbooks.

LDS Tech  the Mormon church site offers the Bible the Book of Mormon and some other Church works for free download in MOBI.

ManyBooks has over 29,000 public domain works all of which are available for download in various formats, including Kindle compatilble AZW, MOBI and PRC.

Marxists.org  offers some of the works of Marx and Engels for free download in MOBI without registration.   Also, a page for free PRC ebook downloads.

Martin Kolacek offers his science fiction comedy novel, Grunt RX-10, for free download in PRC, as well as in audiobook (MP3).

MathBlog has links to 5 free KINDLE books at Amazon USA (residency and registration required) from the CK12 Org.  James A Jenkins has also put together a list of different free Kindle books from CK12Org.

Max Moxon offers his 22 free travel related ebooks for free download in MOBI.  These are all released under a creative commons license.

Michael Hicks offers two of his science fiction novels for free download at Amazon (as well as other places).

Miscellaneous  is a blog where the creator has fixed up the Magic Catalog of Project Gutenberg Free eBooks (offered by Free Kindle Books Org above) to sort the ebook offerings better.

MobileRead Forums is a forum listing of 6,611 free MOBIpocket (PRC)  eBooks available on the internet.  These listings are added daily, but from what I saw they were not time limited.  A complete collection of the Harvard Classics in MOBI format is available for direct download at the site.

Mobipocket is owned by Amazon, but you can get the almost 10,000 English langauge books here in MOBI for free without registration.  Also, almost 2,000 titles in other languages.  Sorting by language and category available.

Mongerism  has a good sized collection of free Christian themed ebooks in Kindle compatible MOBI format.  These are listed on the bottom half of the page linked.

Mr. Piggie  a nice collection of classic novels available for free download in MOBI without registration.  There is sorting by author name available.  eMail updates of new works are available.

MSDN Blogs  offers a free copy of the book, Introducing Windows 8:  An Overview for IT Professionals, Final Editiion, for free download in MOBI for KIndle. This from a post of Rob Schifreen here at TSA.

Munsey's offers "over 30,000 rare and hard to find titles in 10 formats".  Among the formats for their free ebooks are MOBIpocket (PRC) and KindleFire.  These free ebooks listings are also divided into many categories.

Munsey's Mobile also has a large collection of free ebooks and all are available in 5 different formats, including Kindle compatible PRC.

Murray and Madelief  two writers from different parts of the world who collaborate online and who have  posted a fantasy short story and chapter 1 of a science fiction novel, both of which are available for free download, without registration, in Kindle compatible MOBI.

NASA offers 11 free ebooks on Aeronautics for free download in MOBI without registration.

Nyla's Crafty Teaching has links to 120 free ebooks for children over at Amazon.  The links are contained within a pdf file.  There are also links to 5 free picture books on this page.

Online Library of Liberty  30 classic works available for free download in MOBI without registration.

Open Culture has links to 375 free ebooks offered in Kindle format (as well as other formats).  Most of these are classics, but there is a decent collection of Philip K Dick and a couple of other more recent works.

Open Library claims to have over 1 million free ebooks available.  Many of the ebooks available are offered in the many different version which were published.  So the same novel may available in quite a few different versions.  So they may not have 1 million different novels available, but they sure do have a lot.  Every version of every novel that I looked at was available for MOBI download, as well as having a "Send to Kindle" option.  (they are also available in other formats)

Open Library (Classic Cookbooks) Antilope a poster at the cooking.com fora, has put together a great list of links to cookbooks from the late 1800s and early 1900s.  The links go to a read in your browser format.  In the upper left hand corner is a link to go to Open Library, where you will have the MOBI download and the Send To KIndle option mentioned above.  The forum site is no longer up, so this link now takes you to the Wayback Machine image of the page.  All links from the page are still working.  Thanks to Bast for the update on this site.

Passica  a forum with postings of several hundred classic works available for free download.  The vast majority are available in Kindle compatible formats of MOBI etc.  There are also sections for Kindle apps and Kindle help.  Thanks to John45 for suggesting this site.

ProjectGutenberg (USA) has many thousands of public domain works available in their mobile read section.  All of these are available in a free Kindle compatible format (from what I saw the Kindle ebooks were all MOBI format).  There may also be free Kindle compatible eBooks available elsewhere on Project Gutenberg as they offer all their works in a variety of download formats and this lising may not contain all the Kindle compatible eBooks.

Providence Baptist Ministries  has 56 free Christian themed ebooks available for free download in MOBI wihout registration.

Retro Read offers the free public domain books at Google Books in Kindle compatible MOBI format.  They will convert a listing for you, but also have a large offering of already converted books available for immediate free download.

Rifters offers 4 of Peter Watts novels for free download in PRC.  Click on the image of the novel cover to see the download link.

SF Book Reviews has 24 free ebooks available for free download in MOBI without registration.  These are all science fiction themed.   Some are classics and some are newer works, with a few unique entries not found elsewhere.

SF Signal monitors Amazon for limited time free ebook offerings in its Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror genres.  Also monitors other sites for free ebook offerings in those genres.  All appeared to have Kindle compatible downloads.

Small Beer Press offers 5 free novels, under creative commons license, for free download in a variety of formats, including MOBIPocket.

Smashwords has a very large collection of free ebooks from independent authors and publishers.  These are available for download in a wide variety of formats, including Kindle (MOBI)

The Plough offers a good sized collection of free Christian books in Kindle (PRC) format.  Link fixed thanks to Geert

The Tibetan Drum  this story of a man's spiritual journey across the globe is available for free download for free download in MOBI without registration.

Walking By The Way a very impressive listing of free ebooks for children for the Kindle from various sites on the web.  Information on the appropriate age group for the various offerings is given.

Zane Grey Books  nice collection of Zane Grey novels, most of which are available for free download in Kindle compatible MOBI without registration.

Zen Beast lists both classic and recently released free ebooks at Amazon.  They also post free magazines, newspapers and blogs.  There are some ebooks that cost money mixed into the results, but they are easily identified.  Thanks to Leon Finch for this listing.

ZooAlert   offers a search similar to Jungle Search for free ebooks at Amazon (USA).  This search allows searching in a large number of categories and is very quick.

Libraries

During my searches online, many of  the results returned were for local libraries offereing free Kindle ebooks.  Many of  these offered a direct sync to a Kindle device (no visit to the library necessary).  You will have to have a valid library card to use these services.  This is a resource that may well be worth checking out.

Overdrive is the site to use to access your library online for free Kindle ebooks.  It will help you find a branch near you that has this feature.  You must have a valid library card and PIN.  If you are using a Kindle device, then you must be on a wi-fi and not the 3G network.  Some more information on this at Amazon Help:  Public Library Books For Kindle.  This service may also be used if you have Kindle software and not a device.  These downloads go through Amazon, so the restrictions mentioned at the begining of this article apply.

Groovypost has a guide on using Overdrive to check out books at your local library which looks to be verry useful.

Conclusion

Hopefully this listing will help you in easily finding free ebooks that you are interested in for your Kindle device or application.  If you have any suggestions as to additional sites, techniques or how to make this guide clearer, please post in  the comments section below.

To those who post a thanks in the comments, I do not post back as this spreads the comments out.  However, I do read every comment posted and do appreciate the thanks.  So I will say here to those who post a thanks:  Thank you.  I appreciate that.

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by johnsss on 26. August 2014 - 0:02  (118197)

Could you please add our two sites

1) Kindle Free Book Search - www.freebookssearch.com

2) Cover View Curated Lists - http://www.zerofrictionbooks.com/free/today/

thank you very much.

by CrankyBird on 12. February 2014 - 18:19  (114432)

I didn't see this one in your list.

http://freebooks.ontheknob.com/

Books on the Knob has links to non-public domain, non-”sample”, free Kindle eBooks from Amazon, grouped by publisher type.
Selections are updated daily.
Some categories may not have books.
Clicking on one of these categories Traditional Publishers , Small Publishers , Backlist / Sidelist / Indie , Christian Publishers , Erotica / LGBT / Hot Romance shows the books available.

I tried one and it worked fine.
I was sent to Amazon's kindle page for the ebook and it was free.

by mr6n8 on 13. February 2014 - 0:20  (114438)

Thanks

Books on the Knob used to be in the listing, but their main site switched to only bargain books after a policy change at Amazon. I do not know if I missed this offshoot or it just came up.

Anyways, it is a good resource and I will add it in on next update.

Thanks again

Steve

by mr6n8 on 16. November 2013 - 10:08  (112261)

November 16, 2013, 16 new sites added, 1 link removed due to bad WOT rating and two links fixed. All links here checked and working. There are now 154 sites listed.

I use LinkChecker to check page links and no longer visit each site individually to reconfirm. So, if you find a site that is not as it should be, then please post here in the comments.

If you know of a site to be added to this listing, please post here in the comments.

If you are the owner of a site that you would like added to this listing, it is better to contact me through the site (click on mr6n8).

Also, no site that has an orange or red rating from WOT (Web of Trust) may be added to this listing, per site rules. So please check the WOT rating before posting.

Thanks

Steve

by Jubilado on 28. October 2013 - 17:57  (111838)

First of all, thank you for so much hard work. My Kindle was given to me by a family member in Hong Kong and therefore is linked to Amazon in the USA.

I am a pensioner, a voracious reader and but for the free books would by now have faced financial ruin. However, I also read French, German, Dutch and Spanish and would like to be able to download free books in these languages.

Can anybody tell me of sites that might offer this facility - without changing the identity of my Kindle?

Many thanks for any advice.

by mr6n8 on 29. October 2013 - 12:44  (111858)

Because I am not fluent in those languages, I can not fully advise on available sites as I do not know if the sites are only offering legal works.

However, I can give you some links to free ebooks within Amazon USA. (I have set for sort low to high - if the link does not come out that way, you can reset) Since this is through Amazon, we can assume all are legal.

French
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_st?qid=1383049428&rh=n%3A133140011%2Cn%3A!133141011%2Cn%3A154606011%2Cp_20%3AFrench&sort=price

German
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_st?qid=1383049589&rh=n%3A133140011%2Cn%3A!133141011%2Cn%3A154606011%2Cp_20%3AGerman&sort=price

Spanish
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_st?qid=1383049719&rh=n%3A133140011%2Cn%3A!133141011%2Cn%3A154606011%2Cp_20%3ASpanish&sort=price

I found the Dutch page, but there were no free offerings. There are some free ones for Italian and Portuguese, but I did not list as they were not listed by you.

Another known clean site, Books Should Be Free, has both audio and Kindle (among others) works in French, German, Spanish and Dutch (several others also)
http://www.booksshouldbefree.com/language-menu

Gutenberg has French and other languages including the 3 others you requested
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/languages/fr

Probably some of the sites listed in the article also have foreign language titles. You would have to check them.

Also, a search for free kindle books french (or one of the others) will reveal some sites. But, you would have to be careful on the results. If you do not have Web of Trust or something similar, then I suggest you check some of the other articles here, especially on Web Browsers and addons.

Hopefully these known legitimate offerings I have listed will keep you busy for quite some time.

Steve

by Jubilado on 29. October 2013 - 14:15  (111860)

Thank you very much Steve.

I have ordered a few test books and will see how it goes from here.

by shawnanbu on 19. October 2013 - 22:34  (111592)

Steve

Here is another site that has thousands of FREE kindle books.

http://www.IndieAuthorClub.com

Thanks!!
Shawn

by mr6n8 on 20. October 2013 - 18:53  (111617)

Thanks. I have bookmarked it and it will be added here and on a number of genre pages next update.

Steve

by johnsss on 16. October 2013 - 22:34  (111526)

Please add our Kindle UK blog that covers free books - http://www.freebooksuk.com/

thanks!

by mr6n8 on 17. October 2013 - 10:24  (111534)

I have bookmarked and will add in on next update.

Thanks

Steve

by johnsss on 17. October 2013 - 16:42  (111539)

thanks Steve. Appreciate it.

by jbones42 on 14. July 2013 - 7:13  (109212)

Thank You for Your Hard Work in finding these sites for e-books. I am going to pass this list to my Grand Children hoping they will read some of these titles on their family i-pad. Thanks Again...

by bwoods on 10. July 2013 - 18:09  (109105)

Great job, mr6n8! This was (is) a LOT of work. I've downloaded 10 books already. 5 *'s, Thank you!

by mr6n8 on 10. July 2013 - 20:20  (109108)

It definitely has grown into more work than I originally thought, but the nice part is I pick up some nice free ebooks each time I update and I am reading more than ever.

Glad you are finding some ebooks you like. Enjoy.

And thanks for the thanks.

Steve

by mr6n8 on 30. June 2013 - 15:59  (108846)

June 30, 2013, 18 new sites added, 1 dead link removed. All links here checked and working.

I use LinkChecker to check page links and no longer visit each site individually to reconfirm. So, if you find a site that is not as it should be, then please post here in the comments.

If you know of a site to be added to this listing, please post here in the comments.

If you are the owner of a site that you would like added to this listing, it is better to contact me through the site (click on mr6n8).

Also, no site that has an orange or red rating from WOT (Web of Trust) may be added to this listing, per site rules. So please check the WOT rating before posting.

Thanks

Steve

by mr6n8 on 19. April 2013 - 11:38  (107193)

April 19, 2013, 16 new sites added, 7 dead links removed and several links fixed (thanks to Jill). All links here checked and working.

I use LinkChecker to check page links and no longer visit each site individually to reconfirm. So, if you find a site that is not as it should be, then please post here in the comments.

If you know of a site to be added to this listing, please post here in the comments.

If you are the owner of a site that you would like added to this listing, it is better to contact me through the site (click on mr6n8).

Also, no site that has an orange or red rating from WOT (Web of Trust) may be added to this listing, per site rules. So please check the WOT rating before posting.

Thanks

Steve

by mr6n8 on 19. April 2013 - 11:39  (107194)

Also, I will be leaving soon for a month long camping trip and will not be able to monitor the site as I usually do. So I may not be able to respond immediately to your posts.

If you have a site to be listed or info on sites listed, please continue to post as I will update when I have a chance.

Information from users allows me more time to search for new sites and is greatly appreciated.

Steve

by jillnojack on 19. April 2013 - 1:01  (107178)

Found your site when some of my favorites disappeared due to the new rules at Amazon (I deeply miss ereaderiq). Since I just went through your list, there are some others that appear to have bitten the dust as they are no longer updating:

AddAll Ebooks
Dan's Tool Shed
ereaderIQ
free zombie books
I Read Review
Kindle eBook Deals
KinLib.US
New Daily Free eBooks
The Cheap
The Vessel Project

It would be great if you would add:

http://indieheart.com/free-kindle-ebooks

Five daily hand-picked books by Indie authors (fiction only). There is a free books newsletter that is not loaded with ads (no ads at all) like some of the other sites that are trying to stay alive. There are also reviews of Indie Books and "The Reader's Blog" which just covers general stuff for readers who enjoy reading Indie books.

Thanks!

Jill

by mr6n8 on 19. April 2013 - 11:43  (107195)

Thanks again.

I have updated the page to eliminate the dead sites and fix the others and have added IndieHeart.

Steve

by mr6n8 on 19. April 2013 - 7:29  (107182)

Jill

Thank you very much for this info. It really helps to keep this page relevant. Putting them in alphabetical order also helped me.

Indieheart will be added when I fix the below (hopefully later today)

I checked these out as follows (notes are really for me as I can not update right now):

AddAll Ebooks DEAD
Dan's Tool Shed DEAD
ereaderIQ Offers an abbreviated list of freebies
free zombie books DEAD
I Read Review Moved to new site
Kindle eBook Deals DEAD
KinLib.US Has been saying they are coming back for a while so DEAD
New Daily Free eBooks DEAD
The Cheap DEAD
The Vessel Project Moved to a section with both free and reduced price

Thanks again - you have saved me a lot of time on this.

Steve

by jillnojack on 19. April 2013 - 20:59  (107206)

No problem, happy to help out. Thank you for adding the link!

Jill

by Bast on 31. March 2013 - 23:55  (106713)

Hi Steve - me again. :D

This one: Open Library (Classic Cookbooks) Antilope a poster at the cooking.com fora, has put together a great list of links to cookbooks from the late 1800s and early 1900s. The links go to a read in your browser format. In the upper left hand corner is a link to go to Open Library, where you will have the MOBI download and the Send To KIndle option mentioned above.

just goes to the URL: http://www.cooking.com/recipes-and-more/social-media/#axzz2P52HKcWM

which is a page for joining Cooking.com's facebook and other social media - I could not locate their forums.

by mr6n8 on 1. April 2013 - 0:10  (106715)

Yeah it looks like they closed the forum down. I tried a couple links and they went to the same page you got.

I have put up the page from the "Wayback Machine" at the Internet Archive.

The links still work.

Not sure how long they will keep it, but it looks like they keep these pages for a good while.

Thanks again.

Steve

by Bast on 31. March 2013 - 2:49  (106684)

Books on the Knob no longer offers free books:

This page has been removed to comply with Amazon's new policy: no free books may be mentioned by an Amazon Associate or they risk losing all income for that month and possibly forever.

http://blog.booksontheknob.org/p/free-kindle-books.html

by mr6n8 on 31. March 2013 - 11:16  (106691)

Thanks for that. I have removed it.

I am surprised more of the sites have not changed due to the new Amazon policy. Strange move by Amazon.

It makes it much easier for me to find new sites when people (like yourself) let me know about site changes.

Thanks again

Steve

by Bast on 31. March 2013 - 23:44  (106712)

You're welcome, Steve! I'm glad to help in a small way.

by mr6n8 on 22. March 2013 - 13:17  (106464)

March 22, 2013, 15 new sites added and all links checked and working.

I use LinkChecker to check page links and no longer visit each site individually to reconfirm. So, if you find a site that is not as it should be, then please post here in the comments.

If you know of a site to be added to this listing, please post here in the comments.

If you are the owner of a site that you would like added to this listing, it is better to contact me through the site (click on mr6n8).

Also, no site that has an orange or red rating from WOT (Web of Trust) may be added to this listing, per site rules. So please check the WOT rating before posting.

Thanks

Steve

by mm on 3. March 2013 - 11:29  (105904)

Great article.

Any chance you can add the UK variations to the Amazon links?

by mr6n8 on 3. March 2013 - 15:04  (105905)

I think I got all of the Amazon links for UK in there now.

Steve

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