The average electronic Kindle book from Amazon costs about $10 per title. Although approximately half the price of paperbacks, that still adds up to $240 yearly for a regular reader averaging two books per month. Fortunately, Paradise Publishers Inc, owners/operators of the popular website, www.Free-eBooks.net, has translated their library to the Kindle friendly .PRC (Mobi) format.

Thousands of titles are now available for no cost downloads ranging in categories from health, business, fiction, and more. Kindle owners will have the freedom to download unlimited titles from Free-eBooks.net including classics such as Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace’ and even romance such as D.H. Lawrence’s ‘Lady Cahtterley’s Lover’, to name a few, free.

Amazon recently announced that the books it sells for use on its electronic Kindle application will soon be available for cell phones as well. In 2008, the Japanese, who have for years used their cell phones more like personal portable laptops and gaming devices, have been eagerly reading books on their phones on the way to work and on breaks. The books are delivered in mini-installments just long enough to fill up ten minutes or so of down time.

Now Amazon is looking to bring this application to the American market. Google Inc. has also announced that titles available from its Book Search service can now be read on Apple Inc.’s iPhone or a phone running its Android operating system–that phone right now would just be the G1, which is sold by T-Mobile.  Yet another e-book provider, Mobipocket, which is owned by Amazon, already sells titles that can be read on numerous smart phones. Last year Amazon sold out of the Kindle reading device after it was endorsed on the Oprah Winfrey show.

How would you like to download the latest best selling novel and read it… on your cell phone? If that idea makes your eyes hurt just thinking about it, you might be a bit behind the curve. Tens of thousands of Japanese cell phone users already read all their favorite books on the devices, with working commuter time being one a favorite period to curl up with a good cell phone. Japan has had much better cell phone infrastructure than the U.S. for years, allowing them to use their phones on subways and many other places Americans can’t even get a signal.

In addition, the Japanese have long been on the cutting edge of cell phone technology, using their phones for everything from gaming to web surfing. Now, improvements in liquid crystal displays are making it possible to send book pages to the phones in short installments. The tiny books are catching on in China and South Korea too.

Here’s a fun way to pull a fast one on your house guests. Possessed Books are like any other books in your bookshelf - except that when someone walks by these books, they slowly move outwards, getting ready to fall out any moment. Throw in a few scary sounds and you’ve got yourself a laughing gas bag in the house.

Measuring 8″ x 8″ x 6.5″ the books look pretty authentic. go on now, buy them and have your X-Files moment. Priced at US $24.98. A tad expensive for a set of books you can’t even read, but, hey, it’s good for a laugh.

Buy the Possessed Books here.

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