Jungle-Search.com helps you search Amazon and find 7,300+ public domain titles and even 31 commercial e-freebies
Want a snazzy searcher for Kindle books, other titles, and additional merchandise from Amazon?
And for tracking down free public domain books and even commercial e-freebies at the Kindle store?
Try Jungle-Search.com, and especially its Kindle search. You can choose from 7300+ free public domain titles. Just tell the searcher to look only for free public domain books. For now at least, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is free.
The 7,300+ is just a fraction of the half a million Google titles blended with the Sony Reader store and in ePub format. Still, for Kindle novices who want keep things as simple as possible and don’t mind Amazon-proprietary formats, Jungle-Search clearly has potential.
You can even search by “free” rather than “public domain” so you pick up some modern books like Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson, or the first volume in a Harry Turtledove trilogy. When the Verne novel came up, I ran into the freebie of Red Mars—it’s among the 31 nonpublic domain freebies. Just specify $0 prices and exclude public domain titles to list commercial freebies.
What’s more, you can send the same books not just to your Kindle but also to an iPod Touch running the Kindle reading app. You don’t have to own a K machine. I tried it with my Touch and it worked great.
(Jungle-Search mention found in a comment within a BusinessWeek piece on Sony’s new content deal with Google.)
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