Comments on: Ebook Index of Free Ebooks for the Kindle

Ebook Index of Free Ebooks for the Kindle

Pronoiac — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 22:57:48 -0800

My parents got a Kindle for Christmas, and I've looked into ways for them to read public domain books from outside Amazon on it, and the interfaces for browsing for books and transferring them are ... non-optimal. I found the Magic Catalog, an ebook index of Project Gutenberg books, linked up so that you can immediately download books and add them to your Kindle, without using a computer or Amazon. It's in a useless order, though – it's not sorted by the book title, or by author. So I thought I'd take a shot at fixing that. Here's the prototype, sorted by the author's last name. This is my first ebook, so please forgive the rough edges.

By: labnol

labnol — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:08:25 -0800

Hundred Zeros is another online catalog of Kindle titles that are free.

By: Pronoiac

Pronoiac — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 10:52:58 -0800

I made major revisions, to the formatting and to the data. The authors' names were mangled in spots.

By: Pronoiac

Pronoiac — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 01:24:17 -0800

Update!
* New chapter: The most popular ebook downloads from the past month.
* Titles are sorted properly, ignoring stop words like a, an, and the.
* I removed most long subtitles. (This removed about a third of the pagecount.)
* There's cover art again.
* I removed a problematic apostrophe from the filename. If you couldn't download, try again.

By: grapesaresour

grapesaresour — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 21:24:54 -0800

I just learned about this from the podcast, and yay! This is great!

By: pharm

pharm — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 07:47:39 -0800

NB. If you put a .htaccess file in the same directory as the eBook, with the following contents:



AddType application/x-mobipocket-ebook mobi

then people will be able to download the link straight from their Kindles.

(Details of advice may vary with your choice of web server, but the mime type is the important thing.)

By: Pronoiac

Pronoiac — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 11:31:33 -0800

I had no idea, pharm! It needed ".mobi" instead of "mobi" but it's working now. Thanks!

By: Pronoiac

Pronoiac — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 01:33:57 -0800

I just posted an updated version, with details on the blog and copied on the Mefi thread.