Tuesday, January 22, 2013

The Best Book Apps for the Kindle

Free Kindle Books and Tips by Gagler Enterprises, LLC

Amazon regularly offers free e-books for the Kindle, but the trick is keeping track of these offers. The Free Kindle Books and Tips app offers links users can click on to get free book offers directly from Amazon. The app also aggregates these free Kindle book notices from a number of other websites and resources. Although bestsellers will never appear on this app, you'll still be able to add lots of new Kindle e-books to your collection for free. The app also provides tips for operating the device, and free Kindle book listings. Download this app for free at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Free-Kindle-Books-and-Tips/dp/B007MRQOXQ/

Kindle Buffet ... A Menu of the Best Free Kindle Books, Fresh Daily by Weber Books

The Kindle Buffet only metaphorically delivers food to its users in the form of free Kindle books. The app lists all sorts of books, from cooking, travel, business and other nonfiction to fiction and romance e-books. Readers can skip the tedious process of scanning websites for free books, and instead let the Kindle Buffet deliver them right to your Kindle. The app also offers a catalog listing Kindle accessories. Download this app for free at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Buffet-books-fresh-daily/dp/B008Z1NATY/

Goodreads

Goodreads gives readers access to in-depth reviews together while integrating its useful online reading community. In short, it serves the book lover’s fondness for “good reads.” Many people use Goodreads as an integral process in deciding whether to read a potential book. The app allows readers to add books to their own virtual bookshelf and share them with millions of members of the Goodreads community. These users often provide insightful reviews that usually go well beyond the reviews that Amazon provides. The app also provides the ability to share book links through Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter and email. You can even add status updates and page number updates for books you are currently reading. (By clicking on the “Updates” section, you can see what your friends are reading and what rating they have applied (1 to 5 stars) and you can also update others on your own reading progress).The social aspect of the Goodreads app can't be underestimated. You can share books with friends as well as strangers and even join online book clubs as well as book readings in your city. For physical books, the app uses either an optional the Kindle’s camera as a barcode scanner, so you can simply scan the ISBN for any book (whether you’re at home or at a bookstore, or a friend’s house – so that you can add it to your "to-read" list. Download this app for free at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Goodreads/dp/B005AKD836/