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Originally Posted by josh thomas
Hi, so I'm trying to figure out, if its possible, to download epubs to read on my fire. I love the thing but man is it getting pricey as I read about 200 pages a day. I'm not to great with technology and to be honest this is the first forums group I have ever belonged to. Anybody out there that can help me our would be great.
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Hi Josh, Welcome to MobileRead!
You can get tons of books for free. Legally. One way to is watch the
deals forum here books are always being given away by Amazon, B&N, Sony and other places.
Another way is through your local Library. Libraries now let you checkout ebooks.
There's also out of state libraries that for a yearly fee will let you check out ebooks. I belong to 3 of them and get my expensive books that way to read.
Now for how to read anything on the Fire. For epubs you can install a epub reader app. There is
Mantano,
Aldiko and
Nook are the most popular.
There are all kinds of places to buy cheap books. Like Fictionwise when they have coupons going or Smashwords, Baen. Most of these are DRM free. Amazon and B&N are another places and then there is Kobo who also has coupons.
Ebooks don't have to be expensive. My advice is read the expensive books from your library using
Mantano, Kindle or
Aldiko. Buy the smaller books through the different online stores spending on the best price.
Now what I do is get the Big 6 books from my library. The big six being the publishers who have fixed pricing unless the book is on sale by them. I buy mostly from the small guys or those who self publish these are call Indies.
You can read any format on the Fire. It works just like any other tablet.
As for your friend he probably gets his books from the darknet. We frown upon that here.