10 novel MoneySaving Kindle tricks blog

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Amazon is heaving with Kindle books that are permanently free or 99p. Yet these always-cheap titles may not always match your virtual to-read pile. In fact, you often have to wade through a lot of very average books to find the good ones. And if you pay full-price for Kindle books and devour several a month, the cost can soon add up....
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We spend typically over £1000 to get a quality book written, proofed, edited and covers designed, not to mention the months and hundreds of hours of work. Readers can then pick it up for less than a cup of coffee, so please give us a chance
You can be quite clever about this as well. What is a book? According to Amazon, the whole Harry Potter series can be one book..!
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B01B3DKROQ/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1554874132&sr=8-5
So the first 10% of this would be... You guessed it... Almost the entire first book for free!
Of course, this isn't MoneySaving if you then buy the entire series but only read the first two. But it was enough for me to try the first half of the first Game of Thrones book (which is also available with the whole series in one book!) - I didn't have to spend a penny to realise it wasn't for me.
Also look at Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/ for classics and out of copyright works. Out of copyright includes stuff as recent as the 1950s - so if you like pulp genre fiction (sci-fi, detective, noir) then you can find it here if you know a few authors to search by.
When you do find a new author that you like - always check their website or Facebook page. Often they will give away another book if you sign up to their mailing list. Where they write in multiple genres or in series - more than one.
I recommend the local council library online for ebooks - mine uses RBDigital, others use OverDrive - the councils subscribe to the national players.
And another +1 for Project Gutenburg and the OpenLibrary.