An announcement on The Teleread Blog talks about a great download document at Feedbooks. Feedbooks have a massive library of public domains works. By downloading this document to your Kindle you can grab them directly over Whispernet.
A few words on downloads.
I've used the Amazon recommended method of emailing to your Kindle, and it's good as far as it goes, but you pay for the email (unless you use the free address, which a lot of people don't know about myemail@free.kindle.com.
That can be a bit spotty at times, free or paid, and I opened up a trouble ticket with Amazon for one set of books I was trying to send.
It's much better if you use a memory card. I've used USB transfer to the Kindle, and it's slow, especially for moving music to the Kindle. The optimum solution is to buy an SD card (found a good price on a 4GB card) and a USB card reader. The caveats are: make sure your Kindle is completely shut down before removing the card and don't get an SD card larger than 8 GB at this point. I've read other bloggers who have successfully loaded an 8 GB card, but no larger.
Using this method, transferring music, podcasts, etc. is snappy.
Next time from the Kindlemonk: Rolling your own books
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