As a fairly new Kindle user (and yes, I am more or less converted though have not reduced the number of "proper books" I'm reading) I've been wondering whether it might be useful to have a thread, perhaps a sticky if that is appropriate Mods?, so that Kindle finds can be grouped together. I am not sure whether it should/would/could include individual books or just places where, in particular, freebies or well-priced books can be found.

For example I have just discovered a whole host of free GO books on Amazon, including a number of LT Meades, by putting "School stories" into the Kindle Store search. (It also came up with Sheridan's School for Scandal which I thought was very sweet )

Up till now it had not occurred to me to do that and I had only been searching for GO literature on Project Gutenberg.

What do others think of this idea?

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This is a good idea, Cestina. One of my friends had a Kindle for Christmas and has found lots of free titles. She's been frustrated by other friends who've been paying via Amazon for titles they could find for free elsewhere.

Unfortunately, due to some sort of technical problem dating back to the rejigging of the Board, I can't get anything to stickify at the moment. Apologies to anyone who's finding it annoying that the 2012 booklist thread is now near the bottom of this forum: I'd stickify it if I could !

However, a thread for Kindle recs sounds good to me .

BTW, I just tried following the suggestion of searching for "school stories" in the Amazon Kindle store and this came up about halfway down the page !

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Er yes, there are a couple like that if you investigate some of the titles but like a good CS girl I hasted away from them

I hope you found some more appropriate things, as I did....

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That puts Forever Amber and Gone with the Wind into perspective.

Hilda never knew she had it so easy!

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Have just downloaded 12 free GO books, 2 free Elsie Dinsmore that were not on Project Gutenberg, and a couple of others, all from Amazon. Amongst them were two of dubious name but not dubious content (well I hope not anyway) A Very Naughty Schoolgirl by L.T.Meade and Pauline's Passion and Punishment by Louisa May Alcott (though I guess the latter is probably one of her horror potboilers )

But the GO recommendations are very bizarrely mixed up with the erotic. I think I might write and point this out to Amazon......

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I forget who it was, but someone once posted about the reaction they had from a friend who saw them reading "Exploits of the Chalet Girls" .

Sorry for lowering the tone! I'm not sure why Amazon's search engine mixes things up the way it does .

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Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.

As well as Project Guttenberg, there is also www.manybooks.net in which are all the books are also free. It has a large number of GO books. I download more books from there than either PJ or Amazon.

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I found
Hester's Counterpart A Story of Boarding School Life, A Sweet Girl Graduate, The Rebel of the School , A Very Naughty Girl and
Betty Vivian A Story of Haddo Court School on amazon.co.uk. If you go to one of these, and then down to' Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought' there is about 17 rows of suggestions mainly free and with a lot of interesting things there. I imagine Jo reading a lot of them when ill in bed.

Inkmesh finds you them all.

However, if I understand correcrtly, downloading from the kindle store puts them directly into your kindle

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I tried Inkmesh but it seems to use Amazon.com no use in the Uk from what I gather.

Amazon's restrictions are very annoying. It looks as if when I am in the Czech Republic I can choose to use Amazon.com or .co.uk but not in England. I haven't quite worked out whether I have to de- and re- register my Kindle in some way in order to do this or not.

I guess it's fair enough if the books I want are available on both but if they are only on US Amazon then I don't see why I can't download from there in the same way as I can buy printed books if UK Amazon doesn't have them. Doesn't seem to work though.

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Sorry to spree but it is sometime since I posted the last time.....

I have just discovered Mrs George de Horne Vaizey (though I know she has been mentioned on the CBB before) and I am enchanted by her. The Kindle is worth it just for her alone.

There are many of her books on Project Gutenberg and I think EBD must have been a great fan. I was even more enchanted to find that she lived (and died I think) in Broxbourne which is where I live. Not sure why she insisted on that outlandish name. Apparently she was really called Jessie Bell.

ETA She actually died in Hampstead

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It was her second husband's name. After the first one died, either of drugs or alcohol, she started writing and her daughter send a short story in for a prize which was a cruise. She won, and met her second husband on board. She was later crippled with arthritis and confined to a wheelchair. She used her life experiences in her books.

Now you know where the "sheet-and-pillowcases" parties come from (including Mademoiselle's dress as a Normandy peasant and Corney as a "Ghost")...and possibly the "Esmerelda" suggestion of the "name" party for Sibyl....

Talking about the difference between US and UK... the price in the US is 79$ and in the UK £89... that's quite a difference. And why doesn't it come with a power adaptor?? Surely that makes it useless!

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From a wee look at the Amazon US site, I think the $79 one comes with adverts - without ads it's $109 - and you wouldn't need a UK power adaptor for the UK one, if that makes sense

Back to Georgina de etc etc - what would people recommend as a first read? I've downloaded a few but am unsure of where to start.

I power mine off the laptop. Takes ages though.

I loved Tom and Some Other Girls and am now entranced by Pixie - on the second book and don't want them to end.

ETA to improve book title appearance

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