I Love Kindle Unlimited (Have You Tried It?)

I'm always telling writers that if you don't read, you have no business being a writer. I know, I know. If you don't have time to go to the library, buying books on Amazon can get expensive. (Trust me, I know!) Thank goodness I found Kindle Unlimited.

This service lets you downloads over a million books, magazines, articles, and audiobooks to any device for a small monthly fee. Nope, you don't need a Kindle, which is good since I broke mine. All you do is download the Kindle app on your device and sign in.

Kindle unlimited review

Here's the scoop:

• Join Amazon Kindle Unlimited 30-Day Free Trial

• Then, it's just $9.99 per month after the trial.

• You can use your membership on multiple devices, so your kids or spouse can use it, too.

• Membership includes unlimited reading from over 1 million ebooks and unlimited listening to thousands of audiobooks.

Here's how much I love Kindle Unlimited

Yes, this is a sponsored post, but I don't do reviews like this unless I LOVE the product. :) I love Unlimited so much that I added my book The Fluff-Free Freelance Writing Master Course to the program. Yup. You can read my book for free if you sign up for Unlimited!

Here's more on the membership details from Kindle Unlimited

Unlimited Reading

Kindle Unlimited gives you the freedom to explore. Try new genres, discover new authors, and dive into new adventures with unlimited access to our wide and varied selection of books. From business to romance, or comedy to tragedy, you will find unlimited stories waiting to be discovered. Relive the classics you grew up with, start on that best seller you’ve been wanting to read or try one of the hundreds of thousands of books you won’t find anywhere. Find your next great read today.

Unlimited Listening

Thousands of Kindle books come with the free professionally narrated Audible audiobook. With Whispersync for Voice, whenever you see "Kindle Unlimited with Narration," you can switch seamlessly between reading and listening without ever losing your place. Just pop in your headphones, tap the play button, and keep the story going - in the car, in the gym, in the kitchen - wherever your day takes you.

Any Device

You don't need to own a Kindle device to enjoy Kindle Unlimited. With free Kindle Reading apps, you can read on any device with the Kindle app installed. And of course, you can always read on your Kindle. With Kindle Unlimited, you can take every word, every sentence, every story, everywhere you go.

15 Free Online Tools that Every Writer Needs

Every new business venture comes with overhead. One of the least expensive businesses to start, though, is freelance writing. You don’t need to pay for a building and many of the “supplies” you need are free online. Here’s a guide to all kinds of free online services that you can use to get your freelance writing business off the ground. Make sure to bookmark each one!

1. Google Docs

There’s no need to purchase Microsoft Word to type up articles, whitepapers and copy for your clients. Google Docs is jam-packed with features and it autosaves every few seconds, so you’re less likely to lose your work.

2. WPS Office

Google Docs is great, unless you need to create longer documents like ebooks, because it tends to glitch out. I personally use WPS Office. It is a suite of software including a spreadsheet maker (like Excel), a word processor (like Word) and PDF software (like Adobe Acrobat). The whole thing is free.

3. Medium

If you need somewhere to post your blog posts or articles for free so that you can show them to clients, Medium is a good choice. It’s clean and professional looking, plus you don’t need to do any design work or pay any fees. The platform is super easy to use for beginners', too. If you sign up for their creators program you can get paid for your posts.

4. Capitalize My Title

Capitalize My Title is a little site will capitalize your titles perfectly for any style your client needs, including APA, MLA, Chicago, title case and more. This is great for writers that have a hard time remembering which rules belong to which writing guidelines.

5. Character Counter

Sometimes your clients will ask you to make sure that a headline, quote, etc. is within a certain character length. You can check easily with the Character Counter tool.

6. Plagiarism checker & citation assistant

If you ever have a doubt that you might have plagiarised someone, there’s an easy way to check. Just copy your work into the Quetext tool. It will check everything for you to ease your mind.

7. Citation Machine

The Citation Machine will create citations in whatever style you need automatically.

8. PR Newswire

Whenever you need experts for quotes, turn to PR Newswire. I’ve used it for over a decade and they’ve never let me down.

9. Google Voice

If you don’t want to share your phone number, make a free business number with Google Voice. You can set up a free phone number and voicemail box that redirects to your phone in just a few minutes.

10. Portent blog title generator

Have no idea what your blog post title should be? Try the Portent tool.

11. PayPal

You’ll need a way to take client payments. I’ve been using PayPal for decades and have loved every moment of it. They take a small percentage of your client payments so you don’t need to pay upfront. The cut is 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction (most providers charge a similar rate). You can also get a business debit card, business credit card, a mobile card reader, invoicing services, and pay now buttons for your site.

12. Screencasify

Screencasify is a Chrome plugin that you can use to create a video of whatever you’re doing live for presentations.

13. Free Summarizer

The Free Summarizer tool can summarize and proofread your text.

14. SpyFu

WIth SpyFu you can enter a competitor’s website and download their most profitable keywords. This little insight helps you place better keywords into your own articles and come up with more popular topic ideas.

15. Contently

Every writer needs a portfolio, and one of the best free portfolios is Contently. Plus, you can get writing gigs through the site. Win. Win.

Want to make $100 to $200 per hour from home like I do? My No-Fluff Freelance Writing Starter Pack teaches you how to make a living as a writer from home.