How to Find Free Kindle Books on Amazon

Free Kindle Books? You heard that right.

I have been a reader longer than I have been an author. I still begin and end my day with a book. One of the things that lured me to the Kindle platform was free books. This was many years ago when e-readers were still a new concept. I found that the Kindle platform offered a legitimate way to download and read books without spending a single dime. Now if that isn’t music to a book worm’s ears, I don’t know what is.

(Pssst…you don’t need a Kindle device to read these free kindle books. Read my post on how to read Kindle books without a Kindle.)

You can find fiction and nonfiction books from every category free on the Kindle platform. There are thousands of such books available for readers like you and me. Some authors provide the first book in a series free so that readers can give it a try. They hope readers will buy the other books in the series if they like the first one. Some authors have promo days where they price a book for free for a limited number of days.

Now that you know these free books on the Kindle platform are above board, I’m sure you can’t wait to get your hands on them. There could be more than one way of doing this. I am going to tell you how I get my stack of free books.

How to find Free Kindle Books on Amazon

1. Log in to Amazon.

2. Enter any book name in the search bar like ‘Dan Brown Origin’. Click Enter.

3. Click on the book that comes up in the search results.

4. Once you are on the book page, make sure ‘Kindle’ is selected in the book format. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to the ‘Product Details’ section. You will see a Bestsellers rank for the book.

5. Click on <See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store> in the parentheses next to rank.

6. Click on <Top 100 Free> on the best sellers list page.

7. Scroll through the free books from 1 to 100 and download anyone that strikes your fancy.

Want to dig deeper?

8. Click on <Kindle ebooks> in the left hand column. A list of different book categories will open up.

9. Click on any category like <Romance> for example.

10. Click on a sub-category like <Historical Romance>. You can navigate through the top 100 Free books at this level or you can dig deeper.

11. Click on <Regency> and browse through the Top 100 Free Regency Romance books and download the one you want.

As far as Amazon is concerned, you are buying the book for $0 so you own the book. You can do this exercise once a day or once a week or anytime your reading list is depleted.

Many of the free book deals are time sensitive so some readers like to check these free lists frequently. There are sites like Bookbub that send daily emails about books that are free or discounted on a particular day. You might want to sign in for some of those.

I hope you enjoyed this post. What do you think about free Kindle books? Do you prefer to read a book for free before you buy other books by an author? Please leave a comment and let me know.