130 PCWorld AUGUST 2019HERE’S HOW HOW TO GET FREE BOOKS ON KINDLE
DIGILIBRARIES
DigiLibraries (go.
pcworld.com/dlc) is an
online book catalog that
boasts around 30,000
ebooks in Kindle formats,
all of them free. Books are
sorted into dozens of
categories and sub-cate-
gories, and the selection
is predictably heavy on
public domain titles.
(You’ll find Pride and
Prejudice under Juvenile
Fiction, not Diary of a
Wimpy Kid.)
The site won’t win any design awards, but
everything is laid out clearly. You can select
from a list of genres in a left sidebar—most of
which open to sub-genre choices. Curated
selections of popular and new ebooks are
prominently displayed in the center of the
homepage with cover photos.
Each book record includes a text excerpt
and three download formats: ePub, PDF, and
Mobi. The site limits you to 50 downloads per
day, which should be plenty, I dare say.BOOK LENDING
If you don’t have a library card or your library
doesn’t subscribe to Overdrive, Book Lending
(go.pcworld.com/ble) is a great alternative.
The site leverages Amazon’s Kindle lending
feature to match lenders with borrowers.Using the site couldn’t be simpler. If you’re
looking for a book, press the big orange button
on the homepage and either search for a title or
browse available loans. If you want to loan a
book, press the giant green button and look up
a specific title or browse recent requests. In
either case, if the book is available for borrowing
or lending it will display a small orange or green
button, respectively, in its record. Just press the
appropriate one to complete the transaction.
Borrowers receive an email notification from
Amazon that allows them to download the
eBook to their Kindle, and they have seven days
to do it. Amazon’s lending rules apply here just
as if you were borrowing directly from the store.
Titles can be borrowed for 14 days, during
which they are unavailable to the lender, and are
automatically returned at the end of that period.
Also, a title can be loaned only once.Book Lending matches Kindle ebook loaners with borrowers.