Kindle books question

[Russ Smith]

Got a paperwhite for my mom without doing my homework on how available books would be in her area of interest.

She's a big fan of older authors, some british. For some reason there's almost nothing on Kindle for Hammond Innes, and all the Neville Shute books are like 10 bucks.

Is this because these books are quite old and to get them digitized is just a chore, or they're not popular? Can I expect the selection to increase?

the problem she has is you can't get them except in used paperbacks and the quality is not good, and the print is too small. So the Kindle is perfect, except that they don't appear to be all that common on Kindle.

 

[Kel Varnsen]

Have you tried the UK Amazon site? amazon.co.uk

I'm not sure, but they might have different content than the US site.

Also, I'm sure you could find them on torrents, if you're comfortable with that.

 

[Russ Smith]

Have you tried the UK Amazon site? amazon.co.uk

I'm not sure, but they might have different content than the US site.

Also, I'm sure you could find them on torrents, if you're comfortable with that.

Thanks I actually did and they have the same one book on Kindle. I googled it on Torrent but all I found was audio books she really wants to read them.

I'm guessing he's just too obscure.

one of his books is becoming available on Jan 7th, I pre-ordered it. I'm sort of hoping maybe that's an indication his books are in the works or something but no idea.

Sort of the downside of having a British mom who's interested in reading 50 year old books by obscure British authors, tougher to find.

Thanks though.

 

[TheHopToad]

First thing I always do is look on WorldCat to see if the book I'm looking for was even published as an e-book.

http://www.worldcat.org/

Then if it is, you can search Amazon, B & N, your local libraries, and then Usenet or torrent sites. Also, even if you find a book in a different electronic format, you can use Calibre to convert to mobi for transferring to a Kindle.

You can search on Overdrive to find an e-book that is availble to borrow from a library near you:

http://search.overdrive.com/

 

[Russ Smith]

First thing I always do is look on WorldCat to see if the book I'm looking for was even published as an e-book.

http://www.worldcat.org/

Then if it is, you can search Amazon, B & N, your local libraries, and then Usenet or torrent sites. Also, even if you find a book in a different electronic format, you can use Calibre to convert to mobi for transferring to a Kindle.

You can search on Overdrive to find an e-book that is availble to borrow from a library near you:

http://search.overdrive.com/

Thanks I'll check all of those out.

 

[Kel Varnsen]

First thing I always do is look on WorldCat to see if the book I'm looking for was even published as an e-book.

http://www.worldcat.org/

Then if it is, you can search Amazon, B & N, your local libraries, and then Usenet or torrent sites. Also, even if you find a book in a different electronic format, you can use Calibre to convert to mobi for transferring to a Kindle.

You can search on Overdrive to find an e-book that is availble to borrow from a library near you:

http://search.overdrive.com/

Good stuff. Thanks for sharing.