Amazon Prime Reading

This used to be called “Kindle First”, and Amazon just changed the name, but it still is the same thing. How it works is that once you sign up for this, each month on the first, they send you an email with around 4-5 books of different genres. You can look at the info on each book and choose whichever one you want and download it for free.
These are usually new books that are not even on the Kinde Store yet, and there is always an interesting selection to choose from.

If you have Amazon Prime, you can also borrow a lot of books from the Prime Reading Library. You can borrow the book (or magazine) for as long as you want to keep it; but you can only have about 10 books at a time checked out, so as you return the ebooks you can check out new ones.
You do not have to have an actual Kindle to read any of these books, just the Kindle app on your tablet or computer will work. I have a little Kindle Fire, and all that I use it for is reading books because it is the perfect size for that, and very lightweight.

Just in case you didn’t already know about these, there is also Bookbub.com, and Bookgorilla.com and both of these websites have free or discounted ebooks that you can get. Once you go to the website and register, they send you an email each day with the new books that have been listed that are in the categories that you choose when you register (these can be changed or modified anytime).

Here is the link to sign up for Amazon First Reads, and you can also see the selection of ebooks for January.

https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/firstreads

 

Yes, you can download them to your Kindle, or whatever you read ebooks with, just like any other books that you get through Amazon. the nice thing about places like Bookbub is that they do the “searching” for you instead of having to go to Amazon and look for new books in the categories you want to read. When you register, you fill out a profile of the types of books you are interested in, and the book service goes through the books on sale and sends you an email each day.
You can be as specific or as broad as you want to be in your specifications for books. At first, I picked too many catagories, and had a huge list to go through each day, so then I narrowed it down to where I get a lot less, and you can always revise your choices anytime you want to do that.

 

Used Kindles and other ereaders are often pretty cheap on ebay, @Angela Teed . The first ones that I had were used ones that cost me about $20.
I really enjoy having the Kindle to read with, it is the perfect size, and very lightweight. Also, you can choose the size font that you need to read the book properly, which is something that you cannot do on a regular book.
In my estimation, it is well worth the money spent to get one, even if it is a used one.

 

I don’t know if you saw my post in the Kindle thread here, @Angela Teed ; but Amazon has a sale on all of the new Kindle Fires, plus they are offering no-interest, no credit check to purchase on on payments.
The Fire 7 is now $39, with payments of $8 for five months, the Fire 8 is $12 payments, and the Fire 10 is $24 per month for 5 months. It is automatically deducted from your amazon account, just like the payments for Prime are taken out.
This is an awesome deal, and really makes getting a new Kindle easy to afford.

 

One of the features of Amazon Prime that I really like is the Prime Reading Library. Since I seldom watch television programs or movies, reading in the evenings is usually my entertainment for the day.
I much prefer reading on the Kindle than reading a regular paper book, so I am always looking for free books to read that I am interested in, either for learning about something in particular, or just to relax and enjoy the story.
Prime Reading is part of the Amazon Prime package (which seems to be growing all of the time), and there is a large library of all kinds of fiction and non-fiction books, as well as a magazine selection.

When you get a book from the prime Reading library, it works just the same as checking a book out from any other online library, except that there is no set time to return the book; so you can keep it and read it for as long as you want.
You are allowed quite a few books, also. I can’t remember if it is 10 or maybe 15 books at a time. I have never needed anywhere close to that many books at one time, so I have forgotten what the limit is for books being checked out.
If you have Prime, and like to read, Prime Reading is definitely a wonderful feature of Amazon.

 

I use it a lot, too.

 

Yes, I prefer real paper-printed books to the Kindle, but the Kindle is awfully convenient and, given the free stuff, it's more affordable.

 

I was just reading a really interesting book, I was thinking it came from Prime Reading when I started this post, but it is also possible that this was my Kindle First free book of the month for November.
In any case, it is an interesting book, called “Daughters of the Lake” by Wendy K. Webb. While it is a mystery story, that doesn’t even begin to qualify it as what kind of a book this is. It has elements of suspense, romance, history, and even the paranormal, all perfectly combined into an intriguing story that was hard to put down.

I am going to add her to my favorite authors on Amazon, and read more of her books.
An interesting thing about the author....... When I finished the book, I was reading a little about her and one of the things she addressed was whether she drew any of her characters from real life people that she knew, and she said that one of the main characters was patterned after her good friend.....Ken Anderson !
I am guessing that it is not “our” @Ken Anderson ; but how about it, Ken, do you have any writer friends who write mystery books like this ?

https://novelgossip.com/2018/10/28/review-daughters-of-the-lake-by-wendy-webb/

 

All that I can say is that Ken Anderson is a pretty common name. I may be the best of the lot, but there are a lot of us.

 

Now, I am really FRAZZLED ! !
This book was great, so I went to write a good review while it was still fresh in my mind. INstead of writing a review, I got a red-ink message from amazon that I have violated some Community Code, and they deleted all 1200 reviews that we have written in the last 5-6 years.
I have NO clue why they would do this ? ?
The last review I remember was this week for an order of melatonin, and several other products that we had ordered, and I got the little thank you emails from Amazon for those reviews.
They do not take product reviews for discounted products anymore, so we only review products that we purchase for full price, and even if a review violated something, they will just tell you that they can’t accept that particular review.
For them to totally ban us and ERASE every single review we have ever written, it must be something really bad.

Anyway, thanks for listening to me grumble, and I chatted with the online customer service person, and she said the community people will email me in a few days and let me know what is wrong.
I am just so baffled !