Free Kindle US Edition of Martha Wells' The Cloud Roads

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edit - 12/29/2011: A commenter let me know that the promotion is over, so the price is back to regular price.

Via the author's journal, marthawells:

If you don't already have it, the Kindle US edition of The Cloud Roads is still currently free: here.

I haven't read the book myself, so here's a summary from Amazon :)

From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Moon's world is populated by many different intelligent species (none of them human), and he has never known which one he belongs to. Orphaned at a young age, he's wandered from tribe to tribe, hiding a dangerous secret. Like the universally hated Fell, whose only aims are slaughter and conquest, Moon can fly—which leads to predictably violent cases of mistaken identity. When he does find his own people, the Raksura, life doesn't get any easier, since their internal politics are vicious, and they too are in imminent danger from the Fell. Cue hairsbreadth escapes and feats of derring-do, as Moon helps his new family evacuate their doomed colony and then rescues a group of kidnapped children. Wells (The Gate of Gods) merrily ignores genre conventions as she spins an exciting adventure around an alien hero who anyone can identify with.

Comments

[laceblade]

Step 1 helped a lot!

When following the instructions at this post, I was cruising along until step #11, configuring the plugins. None of it made any sense to me whatsoever.

This sounded like me: c. If you have Amazon Kindle ebooks that were downloaded to the copy of Kindle for Mac or Kindle for PC that was installed on this computer, you do not need to add anything extra into the customisation fields
so I didn't customize any plug-ins.

I restarted Calibre to make sure the plug-ins were in effect.

Then I tried to "add a book," and am unable to find the damned book anywhere on my computer - unless I open my newly-downloaded "Kindle reader for the PC" and read it in there.


I'm sure this is my fault - I find computers incredibly frustrating.

[arduinna]

Hm. It should be under My Documents | My Kindle Content. (Or I think "Documents | My Kindle Content" on Windows 7.) That's the default directory for books to download to.

ETA: forgot to add, the extension will be .azw, not .mobi

[laceblade]

Ahh! I had been searching for .mobi's, so that's why I couldn't find it.

Thanks for the exact file location, that helped, too! It's in Calibre! Thanks for your help!

[arduinna]

Oh, good! Glad it worked. :)