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[DuckieTigger]

Originally Posted by Bookworm_Girl

Surely you've at least heard of J.R.R. Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings?

JRR Tolkien and Umberto Eco both have books in KU as well. (Since you mentioned them)


Edit: Thanks Purple Lady, I did not look for every one mentioned.

[Purple Lady]

Originally Posted by DuckieTigger

JRR Tolkien and Umberto Eco both have books in KU as well. (Since you mentioned them)

Lois Lowry is in KU too.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by Bookworm_Girl

Surely you've at least heard of J.R.R. Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings? These are indeed notable, award-winning, successful authors. I intentionally picked an ecclectic mix from travel to contemporary literature to fantasy and young adult. I'm positive you can find some of them in the Seattle library.

The LOTR dude; sure. Everyone you named is at the SPL. Turns out that I've seen a couple of movies based on Roth's books, but never read any of his stuff. One surprise is that I've actually read a book by one of the ones you named - Name of the Rose by Eco. Great read and great movie. Still, none of the names register.

[Bookworm_Girl]

Originally Posted by DuckieTigger

JRR Tolkien and Umberto Eco both have books in KU as well. (Since you mentioned them)
Edit: Thanks Purple Lady, I did not look for every one mentioned.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is one of the bigger publishers participating in KU. However they appear to offer a smaller catalog in KU than what Oyster has available. A positive step in the right direction but still limited in selection for now. I think that things will improve over time.

[Bookworm_Girl]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

The LOTR dude; sure. Everyone you named is at the SPL. Turns out that I've seen a couple of movies based on Roth's books, but never read any of his stuff. One surprise is that I've actually read a book by one of the ones you named - Name of the Rose by Eco. Great read and great movie. Still, none of the names register.

Remember the 80s movie The Mosquito Coast with Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren and River Phoenix? Based on the book by Paul Theroux. He's a very famous travel writer. An alternate claim to fame is his nephew, Justin Theroux, is engaged to Jennifer Aniston.

Unfortunately his best-known works are not part of KU. However, they are in my public library and Oyster.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by Bookworm_Girl

Remember the 80s movie The Mosquito Coast with Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren and River Phoenix? Based on the book by Paul Theroux. He's a very famous travel writer. An alternate claim to fame is his nephew, Justin Theroux, is engaged to Jennifer Aniston.

Unfortunately his best-known works are not part of KU. However, they are in my public library and Oyster.

Nope, never heard of that movie.

[Jessica Lares]

Originally Posted by DuckieTigger

For the store, you don't have to look for the kindleunlimited icon. Go to shop department -> kindle books and in there kindle unlimited from there go to browse all books, and you have a KU only view with search and (sub)categories on the left.

Same if you use the store in the kindle itself - got a KU subcategory with all and only KU elegible books.

I tried doing that. It'll uncheck them as I search. I don't know if that's an Amazon or Safari issue.

I browse based on keywords.

[DuckieTigger]

Originally Posted by Jessica Lares

I tried doing that. It'll uncheck them as I search. I don't know if that's an Amazon or Safari issue.

I browse based on keywords.

Try starting from

https://www.amazon.com/Kindle-eBooks...ef_=kbhp_nb_ku

And the search and all should be all KU and it starts at the usefull browse all KU.

[Jessica Lares]

Originally Posted by DuckieTigger

Try starting from

https://www.amazon.com/Kindle-eBooks...ef_=kbhp_nb_ku

And the search and all should be all KU and it starts at the usefull browse all KU.

That did it, thanks.

[crich70]

I've heard of Umberto Eco. He wrote "The Name of the Rose" which was made into a movie some yrs back with Sean Connery and Christian Slater.

[Bookworm_Girl]

Originally Posted by crich70

I've heard of Umberto Eco. He wrote "The Name of the Rose" which was made into a movie some yrs back with Sean Connery and Christian Slater.

Many of his books are available through KU.

[Bookworm_Girl]

Originally Posted by Atunah

Scribd has some nice big publishers, Open Road, Kensington, HarperCollins, Simon and Schuster, Diversion books, Sourcebooks.
You can browse the full catalog without signing up and drill down to genres to see if what you like to read is there.

KU also as Open Road titles, I see Kensington also. Also noticed Sourcebooks.

They also have all the Amazon publishing houses of course and I found some nice titles with them.
You can go to kindle unlimited and see all and then type in the publishers to see what is offered. Browse through the genres of the sites and just add stuff to wishlists if you see something you like

Open Road is the other publisher in KU that has many popular authors and interests me.

I checked a few authors published by Sourcebooks, and the KU catalog looks reduced compared to Scribd. This publisher is not available on Oyster. I borrow from my public library instead.

Good idea about keeping track of books by a wishlist.

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by DuckieTigger

Try starting from

https://www.amazon.com/Kindle-eBooks...ef_=kbhp_nb_ku

And the search and all should be all KU and it starts at the usefull browse all KU.

Amazon internal shortlink service (much easier to remember ):
http://amzn.com/ku

derivatives:
http://amzn.com/kindleunlimited
http://amazon.com/ku
http://amazon.com/kindleunlimited

[DuckieTigger]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

Amazon internal shortlink service (much easier to remember ):
http://amzn.com/ku

derivatives:
http://amzn.com/kindleunlimited
http://amazon.com/ku
http://amazon.com/kindleunlimited

Yes easier to remember, but still a click away from where I linked to. I rather put a complicated link in my bookmarks than type a easy link that is still a click away ...

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by DuckieTigger

Yes easier to remember, but still a click away from where I linked to. I rather put a complicated link in my bookmarks than type a easy link that is still a click away ...

Check your link.

Also the main point is the search bar.