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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: fightingquaker13 on October 11, 2013, 11:18:39 AM
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Kindle is having one of their giveaways. There are three flyfishing books on offer today. The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton, and two by Paul Duffield. 5 tips Every Beginner to Fly Fishing Needs to Know and (more interesting to me anyway) Fresh Water Fish of the USA, an Illustrated Guide. Just go to the kindle store and enter Paul Duffield (and man that guy has written a lot of books on fish and insects). Act now, these deals don't last long.
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Got'em, Thanks
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Me Too!!! and thanks too. :D
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I don't have a kindle, can i view them on a pc?
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I don't have a kindle, can i view them on a pc?
Yep. Just google kindle and download a free app. The cool thing is, if you get a tablet, it doesn't matter which brand (I use a google nexus) it mirrors all the books in your library, right down to the last page you were on. It would probably work for a smart phone using Android, but I don't know. Kindle has a ton of stuff free, and a lot more for under five bucks, just not the current best sellers.. If you buy a tablet, I'd recommend the Nexus over the Kindle products as the kindle stuff is slaved to Amazon and the nexus lets you go wherever you want. But they're basically the same machine for the same price.
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I got the fish guide too.
How do you find the daily free stuff? I see the daily deals, but they only up to 80% off.
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I got the fish guide too.
How do you find the daily free stuff? I see the daily deals, but they only up to 80% off.
I just enter a specific topic along with "free" and it shows a listing of stuff that they have for free downloads.
Others may do it different.
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That's the way I usually do it. Today I just entered "Free Books". There were about a hundred. Everything from soft core vampire porn to quinoa diet books to trapping and survival guides. I picked up Moby Dick (Figure I might finally read the the thing beyond the classic comic), Grimm's Fairy Tales in the original as I have young cousins to scare the crap out of, and a few mystery thriller novels, the autobiography of Ben Franklin, the Bible ESV (not my favored translation, but it will do) and the fishing books. Free for nada. You can't beat it with a stick.
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I got Grimm's a while back too....... ;D
Side note:
I also use the ESV translation since it is currently the most literal translation from the original Hebrew and Greek texts. It seems to flow just right between the old King James (which I like) and the translations lie the NIV, which seems more like paraphrasing.
LOGOS is a free app also that has it in red letter edition.
Anyhooo lots o' free stuff..... and I like free!!!! :D :D :D
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I got Grimm's a while back too....... ;D
Side note:
I also use the ESV translation since it is currently the most literal translation from the original Hebrew and Greek texts. It seems to flow just right between the old King James (which I like) and the translations lie the NIV, which seems more like paraphrasing.
LOGOS is a free app also that has it in red letter edition.
Anyhooo lots o' free stuff..... and I like free!!!! :D :D :D
Its not just the free stuff, but the cheap stuff. Lots of good authors who aren't famous are selling their work for less than three bucks so they get noticed. And the classics are cheap too. I'm reading TR's account of his African Safari, African Game Trails, (I think $4) and its a great book. I really like Kindle. I've probably got fifty books on everything from gun smithing to fly fishing, sci-fi and mystery novels, to cooking and falconry. All for discount prices or free. You can't beat it.
PS In re our previous conversation. I'm more of an NSRV guy, but I guess we had this discussion in another thread, and at the end of the day a Bible is a Bible and I think they ought to be free to anyone who wants one. Lord knows how much money we'd save if more folks read them. I'll check out Logos. I like the red letter editions as that seems to sort out our disagreement over what is man's inspired and authorized account of events and what is God's word.
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moby dick is one of my all time favorite books
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moby dick is one of my all time favorite books
Then download the app and get it Ishmael. ;D
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moby dick is one of my all time favorite books
That's a book? I thought it was a venereal disease.
I suppose you are gonna tell me that pussy willow and cockroach are books too?
About the free Kindle stuff...if you have a Kindle and can get to the Kindle Store on your Kindle, you will see a section named Kindle Best Sellers (or something close...don't have my Kindle handy)
Go there and use the direction button to move to the top of the list...and you can select Top Free Sellers. Only 100 I think, but enough to keep you busy for awhile.
Don't know if the daily free stuff is listed in there though.