Click to open the link from the email, and click to buy. As long as you have single click buy configured for your amazon account, “buying” the free books will be a two click experience. Now you’ll just have to wait for your first IFTTT notifications right in your email inbox. No changes needed.ĩ- Give a name to your recipe, as I follow several categories I name each one differently, and that’s done! You can create an IFTTT recipe for each Amazon category.Ģ-On the bottom of the page copy the link address for the “RSS feed “, ex: Subscribe to: Top Free > Computers & technology”ģ-Now log in into IFTTT (or create an account first), then create a new IFTTT recipe:Ĥ-For the “this” part (trigger channel) of your recipe choose the “RSS/Feed” channel:ĥ-On the trigger feed, choose “New feed item”Ħ-On the feed URL paste the amazon RSS link you’ve saved from the top 100 free page:ħ-For the “that” part (action channel) of IFTTT recipe choose the email action:Ĩ-As for subject & body of the email that IFTTT will send you, you can use the default. So, here’s how to easily configure an IFTTT recipe to send you a mail anytime a new kindle book enters the top 100 free list for a category.ġ-First, check the top free kindle page at amazon and browse (left side) to the categories that interest you. That is the killer feature for studying, business reading & personal development, I refer to my highlights a lot and having them properly backed up & accessible is really awesome. Amazon bundles amazing services with its amazon kindle books, particularly highlighting (I talked about kindle highlight previously here). People sometimes ask me, why don’t you “download” the books…? Well, it’s illegal :), you certainly won’t find all the books, and that doesn’t compare to having the books in my official amazon account. Another advantage on using the kindle top 100 amazon lists is that you can configure for specific categories that interest you. So, anytime that a new free kindle book enter the top 100 lists I follow, IFTT sends me a mail, & “buying” the book is only two clicks away. Note: You can adjust to other Kindle departments in Kindle Store using the Department browser on the leftĪlthough there are many tools & sites for checking on free kindle books at Amazon I have settled on using IFTTT (the tool that reads “if this than that”) and amazon top 100 lists ( particularly the top 100 free list), to build my personal “low cost”/”high value” kindle library. Top 100 Free Best seller for Business & Investing.*New* – Kindle Countdown Deals page for Business & Investing.Top 100 Paid Best seller for Business & Investing. Until we get a good alternative (working on it), I opted for a regular check at these amazon pages, for free Kindle books and also promotional deals: Note, as with all Prime Day deals, you'll need to be an active Prime member to take advantage of this promotion, which is easy to do thanks to the 30-day Prime free trial we've linked below.Update, December 1, 2013: Unfortunately Amazon removed the rss link for the top free book list, leaving only the rss link for the best seller list. This year's Amazon Prime Day is due to take place on July 11th and 12th, and we're expecting some fantastic Prime Day Kindle deals to crop up, which would, as previously mentioned, make a fantastic pairing with this extended free trial. It's a pretty handy feature, and Kindle Unlimited isn't just available exclusively on Kindle either - it's also supported on PC, Mac, Android, and iOS. This extended free trial will get you completely unlimited access to all the titles in the Kindle Unlimited library via a 'bookshelf' that allows you to save up to twenty titles at once. Kindle Unlimited features a vast library of over one million ebooks, magazines, and audiobooks, although its selection of the latter is more restrictive than Audible (another fantastic Amazon service that has an extended free trial right now).
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