Showing posts with label prime lending library. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prime lending library. Show all posts

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Kindle Tips: A good Mozart "Big Box" mp3 album, 99 cents temporarily. Reminder re Prime-borrowable Kindle Lending Library books link


A special price on a newly-released mp3 album from Bach Guild/Vanguard Classics (Jan. 27, 2013)

Thanks to reader Richard from Albuquerque for sending this valuable tip.

As with the promo reported on January 15, for the Beethoven Big Box mp3 offering, the promo price doesn't last long.  In fact, the Beethoven mp3 album page is now gone; it's not even sold for less, but it could be that they've taken it down to correct tracks and track listings identified by customers for that box at the time.  Even then it was considered a must-buy, for those interested in classical music, at 99c with the errors noted.

The Big Mozart Box, released January 2013 with 131 tracks and currently being made available for 99 cents for the entire album, also has many excellent performances by some big name recording artists.

  This album contains works with all movements present and in correct sequence, unlike what's seen with other compilations sold by others.  But the Bach Guild/Vangard Classics is a really good collection going way back, and the general sound quality on this is considered quite good, with two exceptions noted by customer Mitchell.

Customer E. J. Meedcalf has identified two labeling errors this time -- for the Andante of Piano Quartet K478 and possibly in the identification of forces used for Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (see his review which is the first one there).  He considers this set a 'true bargain...'

  Mp3 albums are, at this point, generally not available outside the U.S. though.


REMINDER re the direct link to Amazon's Prime-borrowable Kindle books
PRIME-ELIGIBLE KINDLE BOOKS
  I read, on a couple of news sites today that someone had found a way to browse a web list of Amazon's Prime-eligible Kindle books, providing the steps and saying they'd not seen this before.

  As regular readers of this blog will know, the blog entry of Nov. 4, 2011 gave a direct link to that web listing of Prime-borrowable books.
  And that link has remained accessible at the top of the Reference column at the right of the blog pages here since then.

  For those who are new to the Kindle and this blog, here's the direct link to the listing of borrowable books via the Prime Kindle Owners Lending Library program (KOLL) (one Kindle book per calendar month, for Prime members).   Here's the UK Link to the UK's KOLL program.

  The number of Prime-borrowable Kindle books available back in Nov. 2011 in the U.S. was 5,379 and that number has grown to 296,833.

  Remember that you can borrow one of these books only via a Kindle device you own, choosing the "Lending Library" at the Kindle store via your Kindle.  It can't be done from the web page.

  If UK owners know of a way to browse UK Kindle books on a webpage as can be done in the U.S., let us know; I don't have full access to the UK Kindle store, due to my US location.  Thanks.




Check often: Temporarily-free recently published Kindle books
  Guide to finding Free Kindle books and Sources.  Top 100 free bestsellers.  Liked-books under $1
UK-Only: recently published free books, bestsellers, or £5 Max ones
    Also, UK customers should see the UK store's Top 100 free bestsellers.

  *Click* to Return to the HOME PAGE.  Or click on the web browser's BACK button

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Friday, November 4, 2011

A List of Prime-Eligible Kindle Owner Lending Library Books you can browse at Amazon

PRIME-ELIGIBLE KINDLE BOOKS

At Twitter, @PublishersLunch tweeted, "This Amazon Link Lets You Browse 2,700 Prime Lending Titles Right On Their Site."

  The link they gave leads to a page of Prime Eligible Books in general  and says,
  "Showing 1 - 12 of 9,499,136 Results"

which is a bit more than Amazon has. What Amazon did was add together Paperback, Hardcover, Kindle Edition, PDF, and "See more," apparently, to get that number.

  And already #1 has no image and "This item is currently not available" -- in a sorting by 'Popularity'.

That is nevertheless a very worthwhile link:  I clicked on "Kindle Edition" which claims to have "2,548" results, but, as you can see,
the linked page of Prime-Eligible Kindle Edition books (Link: amzn.to/kprimebooks ) actually says,

  "Showing 1 - 12 of 5,379 Results" *

which is closer to what Amazon claims is lendable via the Prime program.. (See an explanation of the Prime Kindle Owners Lending Program.) I clicked on a number of them to see that they are $0.00 for PRIME members (remembering you can borrow only ONE per CALENDAR MONTH on an account (no matter how many Kindle devices share that account).

  You can of course sort by Avg Customer Review and the other usual sorts, and choose from genres/subcategories on the left, so I will will include this from now on, with some reference lists and tables.

Thanks to @PublishersLunch!


* NOTE: Added on Feb. 21, 2013 after reading two news sites that just gave this tip as one they'd not heard of before, although this blog entry was dated Nov. 2011 and the special direct link has been at the top right of the A Kindle World blog since that time.

  One change: The number of Prime-borrowable Kindle books available back in 2011 was 5,379 and that number has grown to 296,833.



Check often: Temporarily-free recently published Kindle books
  Guide to finding Free Kindle books and Sources.  Top 100 free bestsellers.  Liked-books under $1
UK-Only: recently published free books, bestsellers, or £5 Max ones
    Also, UK customers should see the UK store's Top 100 free bestsellers.

  *Click* to Return to the HOME PAGE.  Or click on the web browser's BACK button


Below are ways to Share this post if you'd like others to see it.
-- The Send to Kindle button works well only on Firefox currently.

Send to Kindle


(Older posts have older Kindle model info. For latest models, see CURRENT KINDLES page. )
If interested, you can also follow my add'l blog-related news at Facebook and Twitter
Questions & feedback are welcome in the Comment areas (tho' spam is deleted). Thanks!

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