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I subscribe to a couple of email newsletters that promote daily kindle book deals. Sometimes freebies, sometimes with be or small discounts.
Kindle book pricing is not the same all around the world so sometimes things that are free in the US are not free for me, or the discounted amount is different.
I thought it would be a good idea to have a thread where we can share these specials. They are often short-lived, like only 24 hours. So this is a thread where old posts definitely won't be relevant. But people who do a lot of kindle reading like I do, could share current kindle specials that permie people would like all in one place? Does that sound like a good idea to anyone other than me?

Here's an example

Earthwise Herbal Volume 1 by Matthew Wood it's currently listing as $1.99 for me, outside of the USA and I heard about it from a USA based newsletter.

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I think that is an excellent idea. Thanks for taking time to do this.

A build too cool to miss:Mike's GreenhouseA great example:Joseph's Garden
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Redhawk's excellent soil-building series

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It can be hard to determine exactly what is or isn't a book permies would be interested in as permaculture is such a broad way of looking at the world.

Lately, I've seen a lot of talk about infecting brains, getting neighbor's onboard, growing community. So I thought I'd share this one.

Not free or two dollars, but currently on sale for under five dollars. How to Listen With Intention: The Foundation of True Connection, Communication, and Relationships (How to be More Likable and Charismatic) That sounds like something that would help infect brains.

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My personal price point is $1.99 .

When a gardening or cook book pops up for $2 or less, I jump on it.

As a result, I have 100+ cookbooks that I haven't opened yet. But who cares ... it was a bargain!!

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Gary Numan wrote:My personal price point is $1.99 .

When a gardening or cook book pops up for $2 or less, I jump on it.

As a result, I have 100+ cookbooks that I haven't opened yet. But who cares ... it was a bargain!!

ME TOO!!
Actually, most of mine were free, and when I do eventually open them they are usually disappointing. Self-published blog posts, collected into a book. But I have them downloaded so if we ever have something like the covid lockdowns but without internet, I'm set. as long as my batteries hold up.

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Here's a good one. 2000(!!) pages, $2.99.

Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills

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Melissa Ferrin wrote:

ME TOO!!
Actually, most of mine were free, and when I do eventually open them they are usually disappointing. Self-published blog posts, collected into a book.

Oh same here! I too avoid fake books. Like you said, self-published "books" copied and pasted from Google searches, those are terrible.

Real books, $2 or less (Ok, ok, the above book I posted was $3, absorb my point here!), is a bargain. Convert them to PDFs, and they're all available on a single thumb drive. Cheap, and convenient.

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Here's one, been around a long time, updated. Five bucks at the moment:

How to Grow More Vegetables, Ninth Edition: (and Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains, and Other Crops) Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land with Less Water Than You Can Imagine

Author: John Jeavons

JOHN JEAVONS is a cofounder of the group Ecology Action and the father of the modern biointensive gardening movement. He lives in Willits, California, where he has been growing more vegetables for decades. (Amazon)

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Today I found
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00YTVPYV6/?tag=afbmc-20
Possum Living: How to Live Well Without a Job and with (Almost) No Money (Revised Edition)

On sale for $1.99
While it's got lots of good reviews, the one star reviews seem to me from permies type people. Things like it's too simplistic, doesn't give actual how to, is dated, and that it's really more humor than a guide for living with almost no money.

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Here's one:

The Humane Gardener: Nurturing a Backyard Habitat for Wildlife, by Nancy Lawson

Gets excellent reviews, 95% are 4- or 5-stars.

Currently $2.99 (regular price 19.99).

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Does anyone here know about the Gutenberg Project? They provide access to public domain books in digital format, at no cost. Their catalogue is apparently over 60,000 titles of various stripes and genres.

https://gutenberg.org/

I know they have .epub and other ebook formats out there (I have no Kindle, and instead use a PC to read PDF versions). There are many, many books out there related to plant identification, gardening philosophies, and so on that may be useful to the "casual reader."

Hope this is useful!

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Stephen B. Thomas wrote:Does anyone here know about the Gutenberg Project? They provide access to public domain books in digital format, at no cost. Their catalogue is apparently over 60,000 titles of various stripes and genres.

https://gutenberg.org/

I know they have .epub and other ebook formats out there (I have no Kindle, and instead use a PC to read PDF versions). There are many, many books out there related to plant identification, gardening philosophies, and so on that may be useful to the "casual reader."

Hope this is useful!

Thanks, Stephen, yes, the Gutenberg Project is very good for public domain books, which are generally books whose copyright has expired. Old farming books can be handy for how to/low tech info. You can get kindle format there, on some books, and every kindle comes with an email address which I've found to be the best way to get books that don't come from the Amazon site onto my kindle.

Another good source is the Journey to Forever Project

I also once (in 2018 I think) found a collection of historical books that was really cool I downloaded quite a few, but now I can't find it, it must have disappeared.

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Well, how about this!

Permies own, Joseph Lofthouse, discusses & teaches all about Landrace gardening:

Landrace Gardening: The Homesteader's Permaculture Guide to Food Security through Biodiversity and Promiscuous Pollination

99 cents. Yep, ninety-nine cents.

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Oh another source for freely available ebooks and other types of files is

Archive.org Though just be aware there's plenty of porn on this site, vintage porn if you're into that, but I wouldn't give this link to my 12-year-old son. Especially as the default sorting is most popular at the top, so bam, porn right there on the top of most searches.

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1. We may all have our own definition of what 'porn' is!

2. No matter, here's a good one. 736 pages! $2.99 as I type:

The New Homemade Kitchen: 250 Recipes and Ideas for Reinventing the Art of Preserving, Canning, Fermenting, Dehydrating, and More!!!

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For those working on residual income streams, How to Market A Book is currently free. I grabbed it but probably won't get around to reading it until next year so I can't say if it's worth the $0.00 price tag or not.

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Melissa Ferrin wrote:Oh another source for freely available ebooks and other types of files is

Archive.org Though just be aware there's plenty of porn on this site, vintage porn if you're into that, but I wouldn't give this link to my 12-year-old son. Especially as the default sorting is most popular at the top, so bam, porn right there on the top of most searches.

I was puzzled by this, as I’ve never seen anything there that is remotely classifiable as porn…and the realized that the link provided is to the Wayback Machine, which archives a whole big swath of the ‘net, so, yeah, porn there.

However…one of the other projects or Archive.org is Open Library, which is a fansatstic treasure trove of books of various ages. I’m there regularly for vintage sewing manuals.

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I finally remembered the site where I downloaded a ton of stuff in 2018,
http://www.survivorlibrary.com/library-download.html

It contains a huge amount of books, mostly historical, with the aim of helping people survive a collapse of society that affects technology. So it's all sort of ancestral knowledge on farming, machinery, construction, food preservation, etc.
Enough to keep anyone entertained for the rest of their life!

I also have a large collection of SPANISH language ebooks, mostly in pdf format, that I amassed in 2018 for our village library. If anyone is interested let me know and I will see about sending you files.

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I found today's freebie by accident, while searching for another book. So I'm not sure if it's always free or temporarily free.

Rethinking Sustainability Towards, Regenerative Economy
https://www.amazon.com/Rethinking-Sustainability-Towards-Regenerative-Economy-ebook/dp/B097XK44HL/ref=sr_1_8?keywords=regenerative+design&qid=1662573010&s=books&sprefix=Regenerative+des%2Cstripbooks%2C428&sr=1-8

It's part of a 16 book series, another in the series is also free--while the others are all ridiculously expensive for kindle books (hundreds of dollars!) Some amazon glitch? or bot thing?

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B081GJ3KBN?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tkin_0&storeType=ebooks

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I also found that a couple of the volumes of this series are free.

Science for Sustainable Societies
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08L38SRW3?storeType=ebooks&pf_rd_p=d91e7d79-1cf2-4026-9696-d8d8bb8cd380&pd_rd_wg=5jgNi&pd_rd_i=B08L38SRW3&ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_wigo_sps_r1_kmw_0&pd_rd_w=pyZLg&content-id=amzn1.sym.d91e7d79-1cf2-4026-9696-d8d8bb8cd380&pd_rd_r=4aee289b-1eff-48d0-ae26-56c409ea3dac

This series seems centered on Japan.

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Today I found several deals under a dollar

How to Preserve Eggs: Freezing, Pickling, Dehydrating, Larding, Waterglassing and More
Which has several hundred good reviews.

And
The Working Chicken: Learn everything you need to know to become a backyard egg and meat producer in 30 minutes or less
Quite a lofty subtitle but it also has over 60% of its reviews as 5 star.

Woodworking Guide for Beginners

Free: Hydroponics for Peppers: The Complete Beginner-Friendly Guide

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It turned out to be a very busy semester for me at my paid job, so I haven't been fishing for Kindle books for a couple of months. Today I took a look and found

The 12 Prinicples of Permaculture: Thinking Outside the Garden by Anthony Zagelow for $0.58 US

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