Amazon Kindle is a software and hardware platform developed by Amazon.com subsidiary Lab126 for rendering and displaying e-books and other digital media. Three hardware devices, known as “Kindle”, “Kindle 2,” and “Kindle DX” support this platform, as does an iPhone application called “Kindle for iPhone”. The first device was released in the United States on November 19, 2007. Now with kindle you can download and read ebook via wireless. Amazon’s first offering of Kindle in November 2007 sold out in five and a half hours[10] and the device remained out of stock for five months until late April 2008.

The Amazon Kindle Store store now has approximately 400,000 titles that you can download and read on your Kindle e-book reader.

How to find and download free books for your Kindle Device?

As I mentioned above amazon.com have a huge collection of books avilable for kindle but most of them are paid. But you can still find free books for your kindle reader from other sources. Project Gutenberg, FeedBooks and Google Books and  are some popular sites that offer a large collection of public domain books in the standard ePUB format which is not directly readable by the kindle for PC. However there is a software called Stanza Desktop which can convert these books into .mobi format which can be imported into Kindle Desktop.  The above mentioned software can also be used to convert any PDF file into .mobi not only this you can also convert html webpages and MS documents files into the Kindle format.  In addition to the Project Gutenberg, FeedBooks and Google Books Amazon itself have some free books avilable for these follow this guide.

1. Login to your Amazon account and then select Manage your kindle. Now you have to change your country to USA (United States) as the free books for kindly are avialble with these geographical restrictions. In addition to that there are also some Big Deals on Kindle as shown below in the picture.

You can also change the  default sort order from “Relevance” to “Price: Low

to High”, you’ll get a list of all Kindle books that match your search keywords and are available as a 100% free for download.

There were over 250 free books the last time when I checked.