Nook--Barnes & Noble Free Friday book ?

[bokolo]

I just got a Nook for Xmas and had heard that Barnes and Noble offers some free ebooks on Friday. This morning I searched their site for "free fridays" and came up with 7 books that are totally unappealing to me. Is that the correct way to find the "free friday" ebooks?

For others I have searched "free books" and "$0.00" and have found very few that I am interested in. I have purchased some regular priced newly released ebooks too. I'm a newbie at this so any help is appreciated.

 

[RachaelA]

Its posted weekly on facebook. Just like nook.

 

[LizinSTL]

I just got a Nook for Xmas and had heard that Barnes and Noble offers some free ebooks on Friday. This morning I searched their site for "free fridays" and came up with 7 books that are totally unappealing to me. Is that the correct way to find the "free friday" ebooks?

For others I have searched "free books" and "$0.00" and have found very few that I am interested in. I have purchased some regular priced newly released ebooks too. I'm a newbie at this so any help is appreciated.

My library subscribes to overdrive so I can get free books for a limited time from my library. I just had to download an adobe product to my computer and I hook my nook up to the computer to transfer the documents.

Become a friend of the nook on facebook and they update when they choose the free book for Fridays. It hasn't updated this morning yet.

 

[Cindy B]

They were also releasing a classic with the new Friday book.. they may have just been until December.

You can find the Free Friday book on the nook, no need to go to Facebook or Unbound (the B&N blog). Go to the shopping icon. There you will see the list of selections, ebooks, StealsNDeals, etc., scroll down until you get to offers and specials.. select it and scroll through, its usually the last or second to last offer. On mine, I have a free smoothie coupon, free magazine for 14 days, NY Times offer, something else and the free download.

Select the free offer and hit ok. The download will begin.

There are over a million free books when you search 0.00 on the device. Nothing looks appealing at all? Nothing at all?

I've had the device since mid November and have only bought one book (work related). I have gotten the rest via freebies. I have almost 100 books on the device.

 

[SaraJayne]

I just got a Nook for Xmas and had heard that Barnes and Noble offers some free ebooks on Friday. This morning I searched their site for "free fridays" and came up with 7 books that are totally unappealing to me. Is that the correct way to find the "free friday" ebooks?

For others I have searched "free books" and "$0.00" and have found very few that I am interested in. I have purchased some regular priced newly released ebooks too. I'm a newbie at this so any help is appreciated.

Most of the free friday books are by obscure authors and typically in the sci-fi/fantasy genre...excluding the classics, of course.

I've stopped looking, as I haven't had one interest me yet, in the 9 months I've had my nook.

 

[hulagirl87]

Most of the free friday books are by obscure authors and typically in the sci-fi/fantasy genre...excluding the classics, of course.

I've stopped looking, as I haven't had one interest me yet, in the 9 months I've had my nook.

I agree. Even though they are free, there are very few that sound good to me. I know that I shouldn't be picky for free, but I don't want them on the Nook if I'm not going to read them I guess.

 

[momof1princess]

they currently have a free book for the nook called "carved in bone" by jefferson bass-one of the co-authors is the founder of "the body farm" at university of tennessee. i just finished reading it last night, and if you like mystery/suspense with some forensics thrown in, a la patricia cornwell or kathy reichs, you'll like this book. i enjoyed it. this friday's free book is one i've already read ("deadly sanctuary" by sylvia nobel), so now i have nothing else to read.

 

[Cindy B]

they currently have a free book for the nook called "carved in bone" by jefferson bass-one of the co-authors is the founder of "the body farm" at university of tennessee. i just finished reading it last night, and if you like mystery/suspense with some forensics thrown in, a la patricia cornwell or kathy reichs, you'll like this book. i enjoyed it. this friday's free book is one i've already read ("deadly sanctuary" by sylvia nobel), so now i have nothing else to read.

That was last weeks.. and it is excellent. I'm not finished though.

As for the Free Fridays being Sci-fi, I disagree. Lets see: there was all types of classics, Anna Karenina, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Charles Dickens and such.
There was a recipe book for holiday drinks- like a bartenders guide.
There was a Michael Tolliver book (that may have been a free Wednesday)
There was a book that told the story behind many Christmas carols.


I'm an 8th grade reading teacher. I have some very very very reluctant readers. I take any genre I can get my hands on for free and do let some of my students read from the Nook. I keep my library "clean" and have archived some that may be more adult in nature. I have reshelved some of their favorite genres: scifi, fan fic, teen romances, teenager books into a specific shelf for them.. it has the schools name on it. They are only allowed to go on that shelf. The nook is very closely supervised with me so I don't have a problem with it.

My supervisor and principal love this idea of incorporating technology. My students don't feel they are reading, it is more of "pushing buttons" than reading.

Now the books when you search 0.00 a lot of sci-fi or fan fic comes up.

 

[momof1princess]

That was last weeks.. and it is excellent. I'm not finished though.

As for the Free Fridays being Sci-fi, I disagree. Lets see: there was all types of classics, Anna Karenina, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Charles Dickens and such.
There was a recipe book for holiday drinks- like a bartenders guide.
There was a Michael Tolliver book (that may have been a free Wednesday)
There was a book that told the story behind many Christmas carols.


I'm an 8th grade reading teacher. I have some very very very reluctant readers. I take any genre I can get my hands on for free and do let some of my students read from the Nook. I keep my library "clean" and have archived some that may be more adult in nature. I have reshelved some of their favorite genres: scifi, fan fic, teen romances, teenager books into a specific shelf for them.. it has the schools name on it. They are only allowed to go on that shelf. The nook is very closely supervised with me so I don't have a problem with it.

My supervisor and principal love this idea of incorporating technology. My students don't feel they are reading, it is more of "pushing buttons" than reading.

Now the books when you search 0.00 a lot of sci-fi or fan fic comes up.

that is SO awesome! i love it!

 

[SaraJayne]

That was last weeks.. and it is excellent. I'm not finished though.

As for the Free Fridays being Sci-fi, I disagree. Lets see: there was all types of classics, Anna Karenina, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Charles Dickens and such.
There was a recipe book for holiday drinks- like a bartenders guide.
There was a Michael Tolliver book (that may have been a free Wednesday)
There was a book that told the story behind many Christmas carols.


Now the books when you search 0.00 a lot of sci-fi or fan fic comes up.

Like I said in my post "excluding the classics, of course".

 

[Cindy B]

Like I said in my post "excluding the classics, of course".

The Michael Tolliver book, the bartending book, the Christmas Carol book were not part of the classic collection.

This weeks Free Friday is a detective/mystery

Another week was one titled Ninja-- an story about well, Ninjas

Another one was titled Code Blue, a medical thriller/mystery

None of these (in the past three weeks) were not sci-fi. Ninja-- well- it could be sci fi, but it isn't.


As you heard, I pick all free genres for my students.. they do love action and thrillers.

 

[jjan]

I just got a Nook for Xmas and had heard that Barnes and Noble offers some free ebooks on Friday. This morning I searched their site for "free fridays" and came up with 7 books that are totally unappealing to me. Is that the correct way to find the "free friday" ebooks?

For others I have searched "free books" and "$0.00" and have found very few that I am interested in. I have purchased some regular priced newly released ebooks too. I'm a newbie at this so any help is appreciated.

This is actually the hardest way to find the free books. If you go to booksontheknob.blogspot.com you will find a much larger selection of free b&n books. There are quite a few Kindle ebooks mentioned on that site, but usually they are free at b&n too or become free shortly there after. Good luck!

 

[SaraJayne]

The Michael Tolliver book, the bartending book, the Christmas Carol book were not part of the classic collection.

This weeks Free Friday is a detective/mystery

Another week was one titled Ninja-- an story about well, Ninjas

Another one was titled Code Blue, a medical thriller/mystery

None of these (in the past three weeks) were not sci-fi. Ninja-- well- it could be sci fi, but it isn't.


As you heard, I pick all free genres for my students.. they do love action and thrillers.

You seem personally offended that I don't care for most of the free books.

They haven't been anything I've been interested in. Not sure why that bothers you so much.

 

[brattosa]

Another good resource for free ebooks for the Nook is at http://nookdeals.blogspot.com/