UPDATED AUGUST 1st 2011
There are over 100 free cookbooks included in this linked list for easy download and all of them are part of Amazon’s permanent collection. I didn’t include any new promotional cookbooks which are only free for a couple weeks before the publisher raises the price.
Some of these cookbooks date back to the 1600′s, but the majority were published during the 19th century. Some are manuals for professional cooks, others are beginners guides. Some are collections of recipes from church ladies and charitable groups, others are focused on desserts, canning, vegetarian diets, etc. There’s even a White House cookbook from after the Civil War.
You can still make the recipes from “Twenty-Five Cent Dinners for Families of Six” but you can’t do it for a quarter unless you’re shoplifting all of the ingredients. The philosophy of eating well and cheaply is a common theme in many early cookbooks, but there are also some cookbooks focused on high-end ingredients for epicures.
For every title, I include a “more info” link that includes a small excerpt from the linked cookbook, to give you an idea whether it is worth your time to download. If the author wrote a descriptive introduction, it is reproduced. If there is no introduction, a few sample recipes or a list of recipe tiles is given. When the book is more oriented to nutrition or health than recipes, the sample is usually from the preface. But don’t skip by some of the large Victorian household books that include everything about running a home, including hundreds of recipes. I try to include some fun recipes in the excerpts, like three ways to make a cheese sandwich.
This list of all the free classic cookbooks on Amazon works three ways. If you click the linked title, it will bring you directly to the product page for the free cookbook in the Kindle store. If you are using a Kindle 3, an iPad, or other eBook reader with a decent web browser, you can sign into your Amazon account and download the cookbook immediately.
If you are reading on an older Kindle 2 or Kindle 1, you can add the book to your Wish List and the next time you use a computer to access Amazon, you can have the Wish List items sent to your Kindle for free. Or, if you want to begin reading a cookbook immediately on an older Kindle, there are two further options. You can simply note the title and cover design of the linked cookbook in the Kindle store, and then search for the title with your Kindle. If there are multiple copies, pick the one with the cover that matches, confirm that it is free, and then download it to your Kindle.
Finally, if you click the “more info” in this eBook, the first thing that appears is the unique Amazon ID for the cookbook, the ASIN. If you make a note of the ASIN, you can go directly to the Kindle store, type that in the search box, and you will be brought directly to the title.
I hope you enjoy this list as much as I enjoyed pulling it all together and doing the programming for the links.
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Kindle 3 has been rated as incredible and took over as eventual ereader out there now. We´re one of the first who tested this product: see this Kindle 3 review.
While everyone believed that adding color will be the only feature that may make the Kindle 3 stand above the Kindle 2, Amazon’s ideas were distinct:
“Color will not enhance the legibility of the screen”. “It is recorded in books also emphatically in black and white”.
Their stand was consolidated right. Color is a distraction and does not improve readability as we can only confirm in our Kindle 3 review.
The software and hardware features
Most of the options that come with Kindle 2 can be found in Kindle 3, for instance social networking, 60 second book download, and centered features, free 3G access to Kindle Store, cross-platform book sharing and free 3G accesses to 100 countries.
Kindle 3 seems to have made the Kindel book reader more effective, easy to use and easy carrying with those enhancements which were integrated into this. With all the reduction in size to 7.5 X 4.8 X 1.335 inch in Kindle 3; it has become more easily portable.
The elnk screen has got down to 6 inches and weight of the device has reduced down to 8.7 ounces with the scaling down of its size. The readability is enhanced greatly as noticed in our Kindle 3 review and with the size reduction the new Kindel book reader is now lighter, thinner and smaller.
The Kindle 3 now has a memory that’s double than its previous version.
With a memory of 4GB, the Kindle 3G WiFi can carry now at any given time, amazing 3500 books in it. In that Kindle 3 review we realize that it’s under gone a lot of ergonomic changes, as we look at the Kindle 3.
Apparently Amazon really should have given a deep thought while designing & while doing this splendid job. For instance, consider the page turn buttons. The task does not make any noise though the buttons have become more handier. Placed on both sides of the screen, the buttons that were broader in the previous edition have been made one-quarter of an inch and have> and < as labels in place of words . The ease of use has enhanced substantially as you can read throughout this Kindle 3 review.
A free 3G access for more than 100 countries is included with the Kindle 3 version.
Due to the provision of WiFi in Kindle 3, for those who won Kindle 3 can get access to the web or any book store in fact outside 3G areas fortunately.
The new Kindel book reader has been developed not only for the bright eyed; even those with impaired vision can use the Kindle 3.
With a feature that has been incorporated with the new Kindel book reader it is made possible to read out menus and item descriptions . A great feature we came across this Kindle 3 review.
A very wise decision indeed taken by Amazon could appear to have been in not adding any color support and touchscreen to Kindle 3.
Kindle 3 has a far excellent readability as talked about before in this Kindle 3 review. With all the features Kindle 3 no doubt is the most effective eReader that is obtainable and it offers great worth for your money. You can have your choice of Graphite or White Kindle 3.
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