Tonight I was going to start writing some reviews of books I had previously read. However the reviews are going to take a little long to compose than I thought, due to the fact they are not as fresh in my mind as I would have liked. I began looking through my kindle in order to jog my memory of what I have read, something that proved rather frustrating as I have around 1600 ebooks on my device. It was then that I realised that I had a duty to make known how to acquire such knowledge, as the majority of them are free on the amazon store.
These books are however very old and most are free because they are out of copyright. Some of the history like that of Samuel Rawson Gardiner and George Rawlinson would be described as ‘heavy reading’ in contrast to modern standards, but they are none the less worth acquiring. Philosophy books are also available, from Plutarch and Plato to Kant and Nietzsche as well as classic fiction such as Dracula and Frankenstein. A couple of the ones I would personally recommend are ‘The Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius’ by the Emperor himself and ‘Social Life at Rome, in the Age of Cicero’ by W. Warde Fowler.
So how does one acquire said knowledge? Well first we should touch upon Public Doman Books, these are books that are out of copyright, except they have to be typed up and placed on the internet by the public. They are always free and this is why their selection can sometimes be a bit limited, as companies have no incentive in which to type these books up and place them on amazon. Books that are out of copyright can actually be typed out, repackaged and sold by any company however. This leads us onto our next and most valuable part.
These books usually come in at around £1 or slightly more but there is a way to get them for free, providing one is willing to bide their time. They are actually very simple to acquire and all you have to do is enter the kindle store on amazon and then type in the name of the publishers that churn these books out. I have gone to the trouble of searching through my kindle to locate the names of all these publishers, and have listed them below. You type them in, press search and then simply order the results by price. The publisher will most likely only have a selection of books for free at any one time. I can pretty much guarantee though that a number of these publishers will have at this very moment a numbers of books on sale for free.
- Didactic Press
- Waxkeep Publishings
- Acheron Press
- Lecturable
- Nisyros Publishers
- Heraklion Press
- Pyrrhus Press
- Halcyon Classics
- Chios Classics
- Kypros Press
- Paphos Publishers
- Kitrinos Publishers
- Perennial Press
- HarperTorch
- Wisehouse Classics
- Coterie Classics
- Endymion Press
- Ozymandias Press
- Quintessential Classics
This is how I have amassed the bulk of my 1600 ebooks, but there is one more company I believe deserves an honourable mention. Pen and Sword Military have published a huge amount of history and war memoirs. Their books are new, original and of extremely high quality. Most of them in kindle format are only £1 and there is a few I would deeply recommend to all, but I shall discuss these in their own blog posts another time.
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