Searching Amazon for Kindle "Best Sellers" that are currently FREE

[IainB]

Here's a start:
Today I saw this post on : The Kindle Best Sellers that are currently Free

...This list is generated using Amazon’s sales data itself. Amazon offers a best sellers list of Kindle titles though the list is split across five pages. The tool uses web scraping to download the entire list, filters out ebooks which are no longer free (the prices on Amazon can change every hour) and then puts everything in one Pinterest style page.

(The rest of the post and the links are worth a read too.)

So I went to the link he gave http://ctrlq.org/amazon/ebooks/, and after a bit of messing about I figured out:

• (a) that the link is related as some kind of a click-through for labnol.org.
• (b) that the links from there seemed broken and did not end properly, and I had to go directly to the Amazon Kindle search and type in the book names to start to order them for my account.
• (c) that you could speed up the search by putting "$0.00" into the Amazon Kindle search, and all the free books would be listed (though interspersed by non-free ones for some reason).
• (d) that you needed to have a registered Kindle device (there are apparently 3) before you could download anything, so after some experimentation I settled for Kindle for PC and downloaded that and installed it. I could have used the web-based Kindle Cloud, so I tried that out but didn't like it. I don't have a Kindle tablet.

Quite a lot of mouse-clickiness RSI later, I had downloaded 51 books. They went into the C:\Users\[User ID]\Documents\My Kindle Content folder, where I discovered that I already had a forgotten book (Aesop's Fables) that I recall but not how I came by it.
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[CWuestefeld]

Nice find. Another good place to look is http://ereadernewstoday.com/category/free-kindle-books/

This blog usually has about 5 updates a day, each linking to ~5-10 free Amazon books -- all with ratings of 4.0 or better.

[IainB]

Nice find. Another good place to look is http://ereadernewstoday.com/category/free-kindle-books/

This blog usually has about 5 updates a day, each linking to ~5-10 free Amazon books -- all with ratings of 4.0 or better.

Ooh! Thanks.
Pig is happier still...     

[lanux128]

since Kindle is a dirty word (read: restricted) here, i use Feedbooks whose store app came pre-installed with my android tablet. they have a good selection of eBooks that are public domain (therefore free) and also original self-published books (of which some are free).

• http://www.feedbooks.com/

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And the winner is:

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[IainB]

Holy Bible the winner? (but wrong author)
No surprises there.
I could be wrong of course, but I thought that the Holy Bible had always been the No.1 best-seller for all time, bar none. (It was certainly one of the 51 free downloads I just made to my Kindle for PC, though it was not in the visible portion of the display-screen that I took a picture of, above).
No personal library would be complete without one.
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