You don't need a Kindle!....

You don't need to own a Kindle reader to read these books! You can read them on the internet or with the free Kindle apps for your computer, tablet, or smartphone:
...The Cloud Reader is automatically there when you have an Amazon account; you’ll see it under the buy button. In Cloud Reader, the books are stored on the internet and read on the web page.
...To download free Kindle reading apps for PC, Mac, iPhone, iPod touch, Android, Windows Phone 7, BlackBerry, IPad, or Android Magnet, go here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=sv_kstore_1?ie=UTF8&docId=1000493771

Enjoy!

Sunday, March 31, 2013

Free Books Updated Mar 30, 2013

Books are now found under the tab headings above.  These books have been found to be free in the USA as of this morning. Different countries may have differing pricing.  Please check prices before clicking "buy" to make sure they are still free.

There are fewer new fiction listed today due to 1. There seem to be fewer available, and 2. It takes extra hours to find them and today's Sunday and I'm not going to have those extra hours.  There are several though.

Saturday, March 30, 2013

Free Books Updated Mar 30, 2013

Sorry this notification was delayed--due to extreme grad dress shopping.  :0    

Books are now found under the tab headings above.  These books have been found to be free in the USA as of this morning. Different countries may have differing pricing.  Please check prices before clicking "buy" to make sure they are still free.

Preparedness Fair #7

Welcome to the 7th Preparedness Fair!

If you haven't checked out the excellent posts on the previous Preparedness Fairs, please scroll down the right sidebar to "Preparedness Fair" under the Labels heading, or just click here.  Bloggers always appreciate readers showing support by leaving a comment when they check out posts too.

Please add your preparedness posts below--

And please TELL YOUR FRIENDS WHO ARE INTO PREPAREDNESS about the Fair.  We need lots of great posts--and we need as many as possible to benefit from them!  I have been surprised that with 700 or so readers here daily, only a couple of you blog about the subject!  Surely there must be more.  And aren't a lot of you on different survival, preparedness, or homesteading forums?  Could you please invite people to share here?

Featured Posts
I realize that there's been a lot of chaos here lately with 1. The Amazon mess that means it now takes me a lot longer to find books every day, and 2. Having been away twice recently.  This has meant that I haven't posted Featured Posts from other weeks of the Preparedness Fair.  I do plan to catch up on those, with special individual posts featuring them.  Thank you for your patience!

 Here's the Fair! Please add your links...


PREPAREDNESS FAIR #7

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The Preparedness Fair is a blog hop, a collection of posts from various people, where we'd love preparedness bloggers to share their posts about many aspects of being prepared!  A new Fair will begin every Saturday and will be open for 3 days.  The following week's Fair will include a Featured Post, which will be either the most viewed or a favourite that I choose. Featured bloggers can grab a Featured button to put on their blog, if they so desire.

Please take a moment to read through the guidelines.


What kinds of posts to enter....

--At the moment it's open to just about anything disaster-preparedness related--that YOU have written.  
--Pictures always help...they make posts more accessible, and more read!  The thumbnails on the "Fair" are fairly big, so the better quality the picture you choose, the better it will look once up.
--Please, no foul language or non-family-friendly images in the posts.  No stores or selling, please, or completely unrelated posts or spam.  Any of the these will have to be removed without notice.

Blog hop etiquette

1. Please grab the button below and add it to the exact post that you linked.  (That way people who read your post can find their way here to find other posts about similar topics.
HOW to add the button:
A. Copy the code that's inside the grab box under the image at the bottom of this post.  It's also on the sidebar at lower left.
B. Paste it into the html code of your blog post, so that the image shows up when it's posted. (For example, in Blogger, use the "HTML" option instead of the "Compose" option.) Write something like "This post shared at:" before the button.
You can add the button to your sidebar if you like also, but it still needs to be in the specific post that you enter as well. Many blog hop hosts say that posts that don't have a link or button added to the post itself can't be chosen as the Feature Post, or that it will be removed; I don't want to do that, but do ask that you choose to add the button.  
2.  Please don't enter posts with foul language or non-family-friendly images.  No stores or selling, no completely unrelated posts or spam, please, these will be removed.
3. Please link to the actual post, not the main blog.   I've set it to only accept specific posts.  Please let me know if this complicates things for you.
4. It's always appreciated if you visit some of the other entries, and people usually appreciate comments too.

Worried about anonymity?

I realize that a lot of people who are serious about preparing for disasters or hard times also are wary of sharing too much. Note that you don't have to enter your email address in the address field, you can just use a dash.  Or perhaps you don't have a blog for this reason so haven't written any posts. For the moment I'd suggest that you could open a blog that has little personal or identifying information. Please do share your wisdom, though--there are many of us who can benefit!

How to enter your post....
If you're a seasoned "blog hopper" you'll know this, but if you're new at it...
1. First put the Preparedness Fair button into your post. It's lower down in the blog sidebar at left and also way down at the very bottom of this post. (See Etiquette heading above, #1)
2. Click on the little blue "Add Your Link" button at the bottom of the post
3. Enter the URL (internet address) of the specific post, not the home page of your blog. This way the links will remain accurate indefinitely.
4. Where it says "Name" put the title you want for your entry (not your name!).
5. For email address, if you are concerned about anonymity, you can just put a dash. (If there's abuse I'll have to rethink it.) An email address means I can contact you if there's a problem with your entry.
6. Click 'Next Step."
7. Follow prompts for choosing a photo for a thumbnail. By clicking on the tabs at the top you can choose a photo from your blog post or from your computer. You can crop it yourself if it's from your blog post, or let the software crop it for you.
[If the photo is from your computer, you can't crop it yourself; the computer will crop for you. If that's a problem you might want to make the photo square on a photo edit program first.]
8. Come back to the original page to make sure your entry worked, and visit some of the other links.
9. If you make a mistake, you can click on the little red X by your entry to delete it, and do it again.


PREPAREDNESS FAIR #7


Grab button for Prep-Utility-Vehicle

Friday, March 29, 2013

Free Books Updated Mar 29, 2013

Books are now found under the tab headings above.  These books have been found to be free in the USA as of this morning. Different countries may have differing pricing.  Please check prices before clicking "buy" to make sure they are still free.

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Free Books Updated Mar 27, 2013

Books are now found under the tab headings above.  Please check prices before clicking "buy" to make sure they are still free.


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Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Free "From Scratch" homesteading magazine, new issue...

The new "Scratch" magazine is out!  It's a free download (or you can just read it online), and it's gorgeous!





To read online, just go to the above link (not the picture) and click on the image of the magazine at their website. You can then read it on your computer.

To download it, do the same, then when it goes full screen, there's an icon at the top that when you hover your cursor over, says "download PDF".

Last time I posted their magazine, their premier issue, their server went down under the load (not necessarily just because of this blog, could be coincidental.)  If that happens again, please try again in a few hours or days.

Free Books Updated Mar 26, 2013

Books are now found under the tab headings above.  Please check prices before clicking "buy" to make sure they are still free.



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Monday, March 25, 2013

Free Books Updated Mar 25, 2013

Books are now found under the tab headings above.  Please check prices before clicking "buy" to make sure they are still free.

If you haven't checked the Preparedness Fair for a couple of days you should, there is a newly added post.


 Preparedness Fair #6 



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Sunday, March 24, 2013

Free Books Updated Mar 24, 2013

Books are now found under the tab headings above.  Please check prices before clicking "buy" to make sure they are still free.


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Saturday, March 23, 2013

Preparedness Fair #6

Being away all day yesterday threw me off--I'm so sorry the fair is late today!  But here it is!  Please add your preparedness posts--

And please TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS WHO ARE INTO PREPAREDNESS!  We need lots of great posts--and we need as many as possible to benefit from them!

(Please don't think, "Someone else will do it,"  we need YOUR help!  Thank you so much.)

 Here's the Fair! Please add your links...


PREPAREDNESS FAIR #6
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The Preparedness Fair is a blog hop, a collection of posts from various people, where we'd love preparedness bloggers to share their posts about many aspects of being prepared!  It will begin every Saturday and each will be open for the week.  The following week's Fair will include a Featured Post, which will be either the most viewed or a favourite that I choose. Featured bloggers can grab a Featured button to put on their blog, if they so desire.

Please take a moment to read through the guidelines.


What kinds of posts to enter....

--At the moment it's open to just about anything disaster-preparedness related--that YOU have written.  Later on if it gets busy, there might be options for specific topics.  
--Pictures always help...they make posts more accessible, and more read!  The thumbnails are fairly big, so the better quality the picture you choose, the better it will look once up.
--Please, no foul language or non-family-friendly images in the posts.  No stores or selling, please, or completely unrelated posts or spam.  Any of the these will have to be removed without notice.

Blog hop etiquette

1. Please grab the button below and add it to the exact post that you linked.  (That way people who read your post can find their way here to find other posts about similar topics.
HOW to add the button:
A. Copy the code that's inside the grab box under the image at the bottom of this post.  It's also on the sidebar at lower left.
B. Paste it into the html code of your blog post, so that the image shows up when it's posted. (For example, in Blogger, use the "HTML" option instead of the "Compose" option.) Write something like "This post shared at:" before the button.
You can add the button to your sidebar if you like also, but it still needs to be in the specific post that you enter as well. Many blog hop hosts say that posts that don't have a link or button added to the post itself can't be chosen as the Feature Post, or that it will be removed; I don't want to do that, but do ask that you choose to add the button.  
2.  Please don't enter posts with foul language or non-family-friendly images.  No stores or selling, no completely unrelated posts or spam, please, these will be removed.
3. Please link to the actual post, not the main blog.   I've set it to only accept specific posts.  Please let me know if this complicates things for you.
4. It's always appreciated if you visit some of the other entries, and people usually appreciate comments too.

Worried about anonymity?

I realize that a lot of people who are serious about preparing for disasters or hard times also are wary of sharing too much. Note that you don't have to enter your email address in the address field, you can just use a dash.  Or perhaps you don't have a blog for this reason so haven't written any posts. For the moment I'd suggest that you could open a blog that has little personal or identifying information. Please do share your wisdom, though--there are many of us who can benefit!

How to enter your post....
If you're a seasoned "blog hopper" you'll know this, but if you're new at it...
1. First put the Preparedness Fair button into your post. It's lower down in the blog sidebar at left and also way down at the very bottom of this post. (See Etiquette heading above, #1)
2. Click on the little blue "Add Your Link" button at the bottom of the post
3. Enter the URL (internet address) of the specific post, not the home page of your blog. This way the links will remain accurate indefinitely.
4. Where it says "Name" put the title you want for your entry (not your name!).
5. For email address, if you are concerned about anonymity, you can just put a dash. (If there's abuse I'll have to rethink it.) An email address means I can contact you if there's a problem with your entry.
6. Click 'Next Step."
7. Follow prompts for choosing a photo for a thumbnail. By clicking on the tabs at the top you can choose a photo from your blog post or from your computer. You can crop it yourself if it's from your blog post, or let the software crop it for you.
[If the photo is from your computer, you can't crop it yourself; the computer will crop for you. If that's a problem you might want to make the photo square on a photo edit program first.]
8. Come back to the original page to make sure your entry worked, and visit some of the other links.
9. If you make a mistake, you can click on the little red X by your entry to delete it, and do it again.


Here's the Fair! Please add your links...


PREPAREDNESS FAIR #6


Grab button for Prep-Utility-Vehicle

Free Books Updated Mar 23, 2013

Today's books are updated.  Please remember to check prices before clicking "buy" to be sure they are still free.

Friday, March 22, 2013

Free Books added March 22, 2013

Just a few minutes today as I'm off to the memorial service 5 hours away, so searches not as complete but still some good ones.

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Today's free books are updated, Mar 21, 2013

Books are now found under the tab headings above.  Please check prices before clicking "buy."

I am working on a post replying to all the recent comments I hadn't got to yet.  It's taking longer than I thought.  Thanks to everyone.

My Picks:

Farm Girl
"the groundbreaking and critically-acclaimed folklore history by Karen Jones Gowen, is a 2012 top-rated AMAZON BESTSELLER.  'It concerns real life, relatively ordinary activities, drawn with the precision of a Norman Rockwell painting.' ~The Omaha Reader"

"Set in the Dust Bowl of the American West, this true account of a child coming of age on a 1920's Nebraska farm, recaptures an era. Young Lucille Marker experiences survival during the Depression, one of the worst dust storms in history, and finally the disintegration of the close-knit community in which she grows up. Readers who like the books of Laura Ingalls Wilder or Willa Cather will enjoy Farm Girl. It takes place on the Marker farm, located near Red Cloud, the locale of Willa Cather’s Nebraska novels. Farm Girl takes one back to a time and place that no longer exists in American culture. Richly photographed throughout with over sixty authentic photos documenting the people and places of the story, this historical, easy-to-read book is suitable for use in the classroom."


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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Today's free books are updated, Mar 20, 2013

Books are now found under the tab headings above.  Please check prices before clicking "buy."

I am working on a post replying to all the recent comments I hadn't got to yet.  It's taking longer than I thought.  Thanks to everyone.

My Picks:

My Best Work Is Done At The Office   A columnists best stories of wilderness, camping, mountains...

earthmom's Guide to EASY, CHEAP and FUN Home Hydroponics 5 projects you can make NOW to get started growing your own food!

Cavalier's Adventure   Stranded on an island (true)



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http://www.thethriftyhome.com

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Today's free books are updated, Mar 19, 2013

Books are now found under the tab headings above.  Please check prices before clicking "buy."

I am working on a post replying to all the recent comments I hadn't got to yet.  It's taking longer than I thought.  Thanks to everyone.

Monday, March 18, 2013

Today's free books are updated, Mar 18, 2013

Books are now found under the tab headings above.  Please check prices before clicking "buy."

Please check out the excellent preparedness blog posts in the 5th Preparedness Fair.  There are a couple of new ones since the first day.

We need your participation and help to spread the word!  Thank you so much.

Preparedness Fair #5







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Sunday, March 17, 2013

Today's free books are updated, Mar 17, 2013

Books are now found under the tab headings above.  Please check prices before clicking "buy."

Please check out the excellent preparedness blog posts in the 5th Preparedness Fair  We need your participation and help to spread the word!  Thank you so much.

Natalia

Preparedness Fair #5

Saturday, March 16, 2013

Today's free books are updated, Mar 16, 2013

Just quickly, books are now found under the tab headings above.  Please check prices before clicking "buy."

Remember to post your preparedness blog posts or articles under the 5th Preparedness Fair, today, see the previous post.  We need your participation and help to spread the word!  Thank you so much.

Natalia

Preparedness Fair #5


Preparedness Fair #5





The 5th Preparedness Fair's here!

The Preparedness Fair is a blog hop, a collection of posts from various people, where we'd love preparedness bloggers to share their posts about many aspects of being prepared!

The information about how to post comes AFTER the linked-up posts.  Thank you all so much for participating.  Please tell all your "preparing" friends!

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Please take a moment to read through the guidelines.

What kinds of posts to enter....

--At the moment it's open to just about anything disaster-preparedness related--that YOU have written.  Later on if it gets busy, there might be options for specific topics.  
--Pictures always help...they make posts more accessible, and more read!  The thumbnails are fairly big, so the better quality the picture you choose, the better it will look once up.
--Please, no foul language or non-family-friendly images in the posts.  No stores or selling, please, or completely unrelated posts or spam.  Any of the these will have to be removed without notice.

Blog hop etiquette

1. Please grab the button below and add it to the exact post that you linked.  (That way people who read your post can find their way here to find other posts about similar topics.
HOW to add the button:
A. Copy the code that's inside the grab box under the image at the bottom of this post.  It's also on the sidebar at lower left.
B. Paste it into the html code of your blog post, so that the image shows up when it's posted. (For example, in Blogger, use the "HTML" option instead of the "Compose" option.) Write something like "This post shared at:" before the button.
You can add the button to your sidebar if you like also, but it still needs to be in the specific post that you enter as well. Many blog hop hosts say that posts that don't have a link or button added to the post itself can't be chosen as the Feature Post, or that it will be removed; I don't want to do that, but do ask that you choose to add the button.  
2.  Please don't enter posts with foul language or non-family-friendly images.  No stores or selling, no completely unrelated posts or spam, please, these will be removed.
3. Please link to the actual post, not the main blog.   I've set it to only accept specific posts.  Please let me know if this complicates things for you.
4. It's always appreciated if you visit some of the other entries, and people usually appreciate comments too.

Worried about anonymity?

I realize that a lot of people who are serious about preparing for disasters or hard times also are wary of sharing too much. Note that you don't have to enter your email address in the address field, you can just use a dash.  Or perhaps you don't have a blog for this reason so haven't written any posts. For the moment I'd suggest that you could open a blog that has little personal or identifying information. Please do share your wisdom, though--there are many of us who can benefit!

How to enter your post....
If you're a seasoned "blog hopper" you'll know this, but if you're new at it...
1. First put the Preparedness Fair button into your post. It's lower down in the blog sidebar at left and also way down at the very bottom of this post. (See Etiquette heading above, #1)
2. Click on the little blue "Add Your Link" button at the bottom of the post
3. Enter the URL (internet address) of the specific post, not the home page of your blog. This way the links will remain accurate indefinitely.
4. Where it says "Name" put the title you want for your entry (not your name!).
5. For email address, if you are concerned about anonymity, you can just put a dash. (If there's abuse I'll have to rethink it.) An email address means I can contact you if there's a problem with your entry.
6. Click 'Next Step."
7. Follow prompts for choosing a photo for a thumbnail. By clicking on the tabs at the top you can choose a photo from your blog post or from your computer. You can crop it yourself if it's from your blog post, or let the software crop it for you.
[If the photo is from your computer, you can't crop it yourself; the computer will crop for you. If that's a problem you might want to make the photo square on a photo edit program first.]
8. Come back to the original page to make sure your entry worked, and visit some of the other links.
9. If you make a mistake, you can click on the little red X by your entry to delete it, and do it again.


Friday, March 15, 2013

Free Books Available Mar 15, 2013

Don't forget, the Preparedness Fair is tomorrow!  Get your posts ready!



Today's update is done.  

The books are found under the new tabs/pages with headings for the different subjects of books.  Each will be updated daily.  The updating process takes quite some time, and will happen in "real time" so if you happen to be on a page while I'm updating, you'll see the books added.

I have found a source to search for books that are free in the US.  (Usually I can't as Amazon knows I'm in Canada and adjusts its prices accordingly.)  As most of the readers of this blog are from the US, this is a good thing.  

What this all means:

Everyone should check the price before clicking "buy".  As I'm in Canada I can't verify the US prices, and prices are subject to change rather suddenly.

Especially those who are not in the US should check prices first.  Not all the books listed will be free in Canada and other countries, although many will, perhaps even most.

The books will not appear on the day's blog entry any more, but on the tabs.  I will update the blog and the Facebook page as each day's update is completed.  I'll also post my "picks" if I happen to have any, on the blog page (i.e. here)



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Thursday, March 14, 2013

Free Books Available Mar 14, 2013

Today's update is done.  

The books are found under the new tabs/pages with headings for the different subjects of books.  Each will be updated daily.  The updating process takes quite some time, and will happen in "real time" so if you happen to be on a page while I'm updating, you'll see the books added.

Also, I have found a source to search for books that are free in the US.  (Usually I can't as Amazon knows I'm in Canada and adjusts its prices accordingly.)  As most of the readers of this blog are from the US, this is a good thing.  

What this all means:

Everyone should check the price before clicking "buy".  As I'm in Canada I can't verify the US prices, and prices are subject to change rather suddenly.

Especially those who are not in the US should check prices first.  Not all the books listed will be free in Canada and other countries, although many will, perhaps even most.

The books will not appear on the day's blog entry any more, but on the tabs.  I will update the blog and the Facebook page as each day's update is completed.  I'll also post my "picks" if I happen to have any, on the blog page (i.e. here)




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http://www.liverenewed.com/2013/03/your-green-resource-3-14-13-featuring-20-perennial-vegetables.html
http://www.littlenaturalcottage.com/natural-living-link-up-61/
http://www.spain-in-iowa.com/2013/03/simple-lives-thursday-138
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