To celebrate the birthday of H.G. Wells (21 Sept 1866) BooksOnBoard is offering The Time Machine for free - in ePub, ADE and Mobi formats. You'll need to set up an account, but should not need a credit card for these formats. There doesn't appear to be any DRM on the files, so the Mobi version should work on the Kindle.Book Description
The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells, is a novella, written in 1895, that sparked the idea of a usable vehicle that allows its operator to travel through time. Wells’ protagonist, the Time Traveler, sees time as the fourth dimension, meaning it could be as travelable as any of the other dimensions. He ends up in the year 802,701 A.D. and discovers a human-esque race called Eloi. Wells’ The Time Machine explores the utopian existence that the Time Traveler discovers the Eloi living in.
If you don't want to use BooksOnBoard, need another format or just want to check out what a hand-converted public domain book can look like (almost always much better than those poorly formatted gutenberg copies in the Kindle store often are), you might want to check out the free version of both The Time Machine, The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds over at mobileread.com. These three are currently at the top of the list of recent uploads, which you can find by clicking HERE.
With either of these two sources, you'll need to make your own backups, since when you delete them from your reader, they will be truly removed. On the other hand, that also means that these books won't be cluttering up your archive forever, either, something that becomes more and more of an issue, as my archive grows and there is no method of organizing two years after the first Kindle shipped.
