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Cheap good kindle books?

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Need some reading material. Can anyone recommend some books for kindle, finance or not for say less than 5 dollars that they enjoyed?
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Subscribe to the Kindle Daily Deal. Great books for $2-3, one-day specials. I buy a handful every month. I also check the monthly deals.
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How about free? Your library probably has a deal with overdrive to provide lendable (expiring in 3 weeks) ebooks.
Also:

www.gutenberg.org for books off copyright in US

u of adelaide has even more books available for free, and they don't seem to overlap with gutenberg
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I get Kindle books from:
1. Bargain Booksy
2. eBookDaily Kindle Freebies
3. BookBub
4. Riffle
5. Bookish
6. Amazon.com

I do about 30 books a month. (I am retired with lots of reading time) :D
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Remember, you can get PDFs converted to Kindle format (AZW) for free. (Submit to Amazon with CONVERT in the Subject)

Here's a free PDF worth reading: http://rickferri.com/books-by-rick-ferr ... aight-talk
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I can't say all of these free books are good but some of the free ones I've "bought" have been:
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Kind ... =UTF8&tf=1
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I use the library.
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Thanks. Does anyone have a specific recommendation like Bernstein with the Morganstern book?
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The Kindle daily, monthly and Goldbox deals are very good if you are patient. And they have a good mix on their deals site of established authors, #1 bestsellers, and newer writers selling for as low as $0.99.

William Bernstein has at least three Kindle books selling for less than $5 - check out Deep Risk and Skating Where the Puck Was.
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am wrote:Thanks. Does anyone have a specific recommendation like Bernstein with the Morganstern book?
Well, the problem is that they are time-limited, but at the moment I see that Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow is still $2.99.

Hawaii, by James Michener, is currently $0.99.

Between the Kindle Daily Deal and Bookbub, I'm buying $1.99 books faster than I will ever read them.

Worst of all, once a month or so Amazon will come up with special deal that has dozens and dozens and dozens of cheap books and I sort of feel obligated to glance through them...

The other biggy, of course, is that most or all of the Project Gutenberg titles can be obtained at no cost, right through the Amazon Kindle eBook store just like any other book. For complex reasons they don't credit them to PG, but all the books that say "converted by a community of volunteers" seem so be PG texts. Go into the "store" and change "sort by relevance" to "sort by price low to high" to find them. Then there are a lot of books, often priced at $0.99, that are typically public domain works that someone has spiffed up and/or collected.

A few personal favorites:

--The Way of All Flesh, by Samuel Butler
--The Card: A Story of Adventure in the Five Towns, by Arnold Bennett.
--Riceyman Steps, by Arnold Bennett, which for some reason is 0.99. This is my favorite Arnold Bennett, at least of those I've read.
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