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Old 09-15-2013, 05:21 AM   #1
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This is my first post and I am a 76 year old teenager and I have just bought a Kobo touch for my wife who is also 76 year old.

I have downloaded the desk top and username/password but I cannot get to the free e books part so can anyone help me please,

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This is my first post and I am a 76 year old teenager and I have just bought a Kobo touch for my wife who is also 76 year old.

I have downloaded the desk top and username/password but I cannot get to the free e books part so can anyone help me please,

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Hi Ken and welcome to Mobileread where all ages have an interest in books and the ways in which to read and listen to them

Well, now that Kobo's changed their website to this 'new, beaut' site they no longer show a category for the free ebooks!!

Hope someone else can help you .... 'cos I can't find them!
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Plenty of free ebooks right here on Mobileread...

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/ebooks.php?forumid=130

Or off at Project Gutenberg.
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You don't say what country you are in so this suggestion may fall flat. Does your local library have a website for you to borrow books?
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Old 09-15-2013, 01:35 PM   #6
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The best way I know of is to click on "ebooks " toward the top of the site. The other choices on that line are for tablets or readers. The new page will have a short categories listing. You can though click on it and see all of the categories. Choose the one you are interested in and then sort low price to high. The free books will come up first.

It sounds more complicated than it really is.

Edit: Another great source of free books you can read on Kobo readers would be the digital collection of your local library. There are probably instructions on your library website. The librarians can also help you get started.
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Old 09-15-2013, 02:16 PM   #7
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This Kobo link might work for you : http://www.kobo.com/free-ebooks
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Old 09-15-2013, 02:43 PM   #8
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Also in the categories you can select from price low to high, that should bring up the free books first, or at least you can in the UK site
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This Kobo link might work for you : http://www.kobo.com/free-ebooks
I followed your link and despite the page on Kobo being headed Free ebooks, the listed titles all have prices displayed!


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I followed your link and despite the page on Kobo being headed Free ebooks, the listed titles all have prices displayed!


Kobo books free ebooks
I tried a search on a space (just hit the space bar in the search field) and got about 3 million books selected. Clicking on sort price low to high, the first pages are the free ebooks. When I clicked on the genres, the free ebooks still showed first in the list.

http://store.kobobooks.com/en-gb/Sea...&sort=PriceAsc

Don't know if this will work for you but I did select en-gb as the language to use.

OTOH, when I used the http://www.kobo.com/free-ebooks, it worked to get me to their free ebooks page. Note that this did not redirect to kobobooks.com or store.kobobooks.com for me.

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OTOH, when I used the http://www.kobo.com/free-ebooks, it worked to get me to their free ebooks page. Note that this did not redirect to kobobooks.com or store.kobobooks.com for me.

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I'm with WittyUsername. When I click that link and go into the lists, nothing is free and there are only a few entries each. The Classics section was empty.
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I'm with WittyUsername. When I click that link and go into the lists, nothing is free and there are only a few entries each. The Classics section was empty.
I used Tor to change my location and the books I was seeing disappeared. The few books that were visible, checking all the genres, had 3 freebies, the rest being cost items.

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This is my first post and I am a 76 year old teenager and I have just bought a Kobo touch for my wife who is also 76 year old.

I have downloaded the desk top and username/password but I cannot get to the free e books part so can anyone help me please,

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Hurrah - as a result of other posters saying that if you use Internet Explorer to access Kobo then you will get the old look site, I can link you directly to the Free ebooks section:

Internet Explorer version of Kobo: free ebooks here

Don't forget open the link in Internet Explorer

Let us know how you go
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Having said that, I just tried opening the link in Firefox and I get the Free ebooks section!!!
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IE10 does not give you the old store. You can get a "broken" version of it using IE10 in compatibility mode (accessed through the view menu). Anyone who uses an old insecure version of IE, if they have the ability to update, may end up with bigger problems than not being able to easily see free books on the Kobo website.
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