Since today is Hate Amazon Day—thanks to the company’s decision to yank Macmillan’s titles from the Kindle store over a pricing dispute—I thought it might be a good time to revise my guide to downloading my e-books—plus thousands of others—on various platforms.

Last time, I covered the process for the iPhone, which has changed. But let’s start with the Kindle.

It is relatively easy to download both my free e-books, 2006’s Single and 2009’s Cassingle, directly to your Kindle via Feedbooks, although it does require the use of the web browser, which Amazon hides as “Experimental” since it competes with their business model. My brother-in-law didn’t even know his Kindle had a web browser when I downloaded my books to his Kindle for him over the holidays. That’s a speed bump, to be sure, but Hate Amazon Day 2010 might be just what consumers need to hunt down the browser and free themselves (if only a little) from Bezos et. al.

The path to opening the browser is Home > Menu > Experimental > Basic Web. (Here are Amazon’s instructions.) Once there, type http://www.feedbooks.mobi into the browser’s address bar. On that page, type “Hanas” into the search box and voila, my two books show up second and third on the list, right after Hans Christian Andersen, whose work mine in no way resembles. And, if you insist, you can browse the thousands of other free books—both classic and original—available via Feedbooks, which Amazon will be powerless to yank from the web. You can also download a dedicated Kindle guide from that page, which will make Feedbooks’ catalog even more readily accessible.

Now for the iPhone and the iPod Touch. The path to my (and other) books is basically the same as it was the last time I detailed it. Download Stanza (uh oh, an Amazon product; more on this in a second.) Hit the “Get Books” tab, navigate to “Feedbooks - Free Content,” open the search bar (with the little magnifying glass), search for “Hanas,” and there I am again, right under Hans.

But is Stanza an option on Hate Amazon Day? A good question. At least for now, Stanza is open to a DRM-free EPUB provider like Feedbooks, so I’m going to let it slide. For that reason and because I’m a shameless opportunist. Alternatively, if you’re running an Android phone, you can search for me in the Aldiko catalog, which includes Feedbooks. Or you could download the .pdf and print the damn thing out. That would show ‘em.

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