I recieved a Kindle for this past Christmas, and I use it in homeschooling more than I ever dreamt possible. I was given a Kindle Paperwhite and love it. I was really concerned that the screen would hurt my eyes, and it does not.
Keep checking the Amazon free list often – they always have new books up, some to use in homeschooling, and some to just enjoy yourself. Also, Amazon has many free books. I’ll list the ones I have currently on my Kindle that I got for free. Almost all of them I got through Amazon.
Among the Forest People, Meadow People, Farmyard People, Night People, Pond People byt Clara Dillingham Pierson (reading this with my 2nd grader)
5 Little Peppers and How they grew (Reading this as a family and LOVING it)
Wild Animals I Have Known (5th grader just finished reading this and loved it)
Tons of Grace Livingston Hill books (Christian writer from the early 1900’s – I started reading her books while on bedrest, and am loving each new book I read by her)
Jane Eyre (another one for me )
Madam how and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley
The Wonderful Bed by Gertrude Knevels (Haven’t read this yet)
Little Women by Louisa May Alcot
All the Free books by SCM
The Children’s Life of Bee’s <aurice Maeterlinck
The Peterkin Papers by Lucretia P. Hale (Read this as a family read aloud)
Grimm’s Fairy Tales
Little Lord Faunteleroy and A Little Princess and Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (we read aloud A Little Princess)
Pilgrim’s Progress
Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (Family read aloud)
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (read when my son was in 4th)
5 children and it and The Enchanted Castle by Edith Nesbit
Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Pinocchio by carlo Collodi
Understood Betsy by Dorothy Fisher
Burgess Animal Book for Children and Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thorton Burgess
Pond and Stream bu Arthur Ransome
Child’s book of the Seasons by Arthur Ransome
Book of Dragons and The Railway Children by E. Nesbit (we read aloud the Railway Children)
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by Rudyard Kipling (read to my youngers – 5yo and 2yo)
The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (devoured by my then 4th grader)
Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Comstock (so much easier than lugging the giant book around!!)
Swiss Family Robinson by Jean Rudolph Wyss
Pollyanna by Elenor Porter (read aloud to a 2nd grader)
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Wuthering heights (for me again)