Saturday, June 13, 2015

Free Fairy Tales (for Kindles)

Tales of Faerie is run on a budget. Or rather, it's completely a labor of love. The books I read are received as gifts or borrowed from the library, so I'm always on the lookout for a good deal.

For those of you who have a Kindle, you probably already know you can get great deals on ebooks. There's also a series of public domain books that volunteers have made into ereader format and are FREE to those with Kindles! Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a way to search only free books (UPDATE: with help from Emilyn J. Wood, here is a link to books with the keyword "fairy tale" and sorted with lowest price first) but I've collected some of the fairy tale books that might interest readers most.

Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know, edited by Hamilton Wright Mabie
Favorite Fairy Tales, edited by Logan Marshall
English Fairy Tales, collected by Joseph Jacobs
Fairy Tales From All Nations, edited by Anthony R. Montalba, Illustrated by Richard Doyle

This is only a partial list. There are free kindle editions for fiction books I haven't read, and other tales from around the world, such as Irish,Swedish, South African and American. Browse through the Kindle ebook store with the keyword fairy tale to find more, although finding free ones might take some digging. Although I've mentioned before that I'm pretty old fashioned when it comes to books-I prefer the physical, hard copies, which are still easier in my opinion for taking notes and flipping through afterwards, although ebooks have note taking abilities. But, you can't deny the good deals that Kindle provides. Plus, Kindles are ideal for traveling. I've got a couple of trips coming up this summer and I'm the type of person who likes to bring multiple books on vacation, so clearly a Kindle is a nice, lightweight alternative to stuffing several books in my baggage.







9 comments:

  1. How kind of you, Kristin, putting together this list of freebies! I should add that many of the public domain books are easily available in Project Gutenberg, which covers all formats, not only Kindle. I do have a Kindle app on my iPad, which I use fir giveaways and such, but prefer to use my iBooks app if possible. Which won't stop me from checking out the others you have listed above. :-) You're right about the lightweight qualities of ebooks - I take hundreds with me on the train to work every day, and when I'm at a conference or SF convention and hear about a great book, I go straight to the App Store and buy them as the author speaks. Of course, you can't get them signed...

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  2. Hmm, I followed the links and those that are converted by volunteers all seem to be unavailable. How strange! Thanks anyway! Cheers!
    Sue

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    1. Oh no! Do you mean the link itself doesn't work? They seem to be working for me. Or that you go to the link and the book says its unavailable? If you have a Kindle account I would think they should work, for me they show up with a "Buy now with 1-click" button. Is anyone else having issues?

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  3. One of the best ways to get folk tale books. I'll also point out that almost all of the Andrew Lang books are free on kindle.

    Finding English Fairy Tales was a real coup for me. Loved that book so much that I felt the need to buy a hard copy too at a used book store.

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    1. Good to know about the Lang colored books! The only one I own in hard copy is the Blue Book

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  4. The links work for me!
    By the way, there's a way to see all the free ebooks first in one place on Amazon. You can sort the order that search results come in by lowest price to highest price.

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    1. Good! And thanks for the tip! I had been looking on the left side but I finally found the sort by price option on the top right. I've updated the post!

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  5. I have a great book for you to review - http://www.amazon.com/Fairy-Princess-Raena-Great-Storm/dp/1492259055 - Please contact me for more information at bookcoverbuzz@gmail.com

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  6. No, the link worked, it just said they were unavailable. I do have an account. Better try again.

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