SOLVED: How To Find The 1 Million Free eBooks on Kobo

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• Tried all above suggestions,still cannot find Kobo free ebooks for Kobo Touch

  • They have changed the system and now all you have to do is log in to http://www.KOBOBOOKS.com and then click the FREE EBOOKS link near the top of the page. I have just updated the instructions to reflect this third option (STILL EASY WAY).

    If these methods don't work for you, you like have not signed in. You need a Kobo account to get free books for the Kobo.

    • As far as I can see the problem is that the Kobobooks site works very differently in Chrome or Firefox from the way it does in Internet Explorer. For example, the Free books link does not exist in the other browsers.

      • Interesting... just tried this with FireFox and with IE and you are right, they do take you to different pages after login. I use and like IE for 99.9% of sites but keep Firefox mainly for testing. What I found was that Firefox takes you to STORE.KOBOBOOKS.COM while IE takes you to http://WWW.KOBOBOOKS.COM after login. The good news is that all I had to do to "fix" Firefox was change the URL to WWWW.KOBOBOOKS.COM and all was well.

        Based on this I have updated the section labeled STILL EASY WAY with a screen shot showing the difference.

• I have just tried this & there is no 'free only' on the filter drop down now

  • Good Day Gill;

    I just:
    1: went to http://www.kobo.com
    2: clicked the GO button to the right of the search box near the top right corner of the window (i.e. I did not type anything in the search)
    3: clicked the FILTER drop down and selected FREE

    see: http://www.kobobooks.com/search/search.html?q=&t=free&f=keyword&p=1&s=none&g=both&l=

• Just search for nothing.

  Displaying results for: “”
  1 - 10 of 1,895,785 Results
  Filter:Free only.

  enjoy!

  • This worked well for me too! Even though I did it by accident, ;p. I had a whole plethora of free books, until they updated their site, now you go to the free book section, click on a category and the books aren't even free!? How does that make any sense? It doesn't.

• yes, this is frustrating. You can not browse all categories and find free books that way.
  Instead, you have offered 6 (strange) categories and around 150 free books within them. So, if you are interested in some other categories, which are not listed among those 6, you have to browse by key words. And unless you know exactly what you are looking for, search like that can last ages! Im very dissapointed by this..

  • Just got a kobo ereader and had equal frustration but method at top of this exchange does work well. Tried it using shakespeare and got 3495 items. That would also be a pain to search thru but I got quite a few hits in the first 30 or so items on the complete works so no need to go any further

• Really...... how do I get the free books? I followed the directions and I got a whole 10 books offered to me - what???????????????

  • They have improved the site and now have a like just for free books:

    http://www.kobobooks.com/free_ebooks

    I currently only see 165 in the search result but also see the following note:

    Note: 1 million free eBooks will not show up in a single search result.

    So you will need to search on whatever you are interested in.

    I hope this helps.