How to Download Free Books to Your Kindle from Project Gutenberg
You can buy books directly through Amazon.com and have them sent to your Kindle at a very reasonable price. However, Amazon is not the only source for e-books for your Kindle. Another option is get your books without any cost through Project Gutenberg.
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Instructions
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The first thing you need to know is your Kindle email address. Sign on to Amazon.com and choose the "Manage my Kindle" tab. On that tab, you will find your Kindle email address. Amazon allows you to send PDFs to your Kindle at no charge.
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Navigate your Web browser to the Project Gutenberg website.
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You can search by author, title, language or look at one of their top 100 lists. Most of these titles are classics.
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Select your title and download it as a text document.
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Open the text document with Microsoft Word. You could read it online through your computer at this point, but if you want to send it to your Kindle, continue to the next step.
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Save it as a PDF document.
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To email to your Kindle, you need two pieces of information. The first is the email address of your Kindle and the second is your Kindle-approved email address. Amazon does not allow email to come to your Kindle from non-approved email addresses. Both of these pieces of information can be found on the "Manage your Kindle" tab on Amazon.com.
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Once you know your Kindle email address, you can open up your Kindle-approved email provider and attach the document to an email and send it on its way.
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When you order a book for your Kindle through Amazon.com, it downloads it within minutes. When you send a PDF, it takes just a few minutes longer.
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Tips & Warnings
To convert a document from Word to PDF, you need a PDF add-on. If you do not see PDF as an option, you can check with Microsoft Help in Word for a link to the site that will allow you to download it.
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