FAQ for Readers

Book Cave sends notices to your email inbox about free or discounted ebooks according to your chosen genres and content preferences (also called content ratings: All, Mild, Mild+ Moderate, Moderate+, Adult). All offered books are reviewed by us to assure quality reads. We also put promotions on Twitter and Facebook, so look for us there. …

Book Cave sends notices to your email inbox about free ebooks offered directly from Authors and Publishers. These deals are not available at retailers and must be sideloaded into your device. The deals are selected for you according to your chosen genres and content preferences (also called content ratings: All, Mild, Mild+ Moderate, Moderate+, Adult). We …

All our deals are offered by the authors and/or publishers and are carried on major ebook retailers.

We offer deals on all retailers.

Absolutely. We never charge you to receive notices about discounted or free books.

The Book Cave Direct deals will always work anywhere in the world. Retailer deals, on the other hand, must be downloaded from a retailer such as Amazon or Kobo, so there are some caveats.

Authors and publishers offer free books through My Book Cave so they can reach new readers.

Absolutely. Unlike most ebook discount sites, we read parts of every book we promote, check the language content to be sure it's rated appropriately, and check and read reviews. Our editors choose the best of the books that authors and publishers submit to us so you won't have to deal with poorly-formatted books, books with excessive …

There are many advantages to being able to choose the level of heat, violence, and other content. While many great books offered for every content rating, too often readers find their enjoyment of a book halted because of unexpected scenes, or content that doesn’t live up to reader expectation. With Book Cave, you choose your …

On Book Cave, we use the ebook content rating system from our sister site My Book Ratings (or MBR). MBR ratings are a somewhat like movie ratings, and they're divided into six groups: All Ages, Mild, Mild+, Moderate, Moderate+, and Adult. Books are assigned ratings based on seven categories: crude humor/language, profanity, drug and alcohol …

Simply choose all the genres you want and then click the button at the end of the sign form that indicates you would like to receive books with LGBT themes

You can think of our content ratings like movie ratings. However, the GENRES you choose also have a lot to do with the rating. Remember to choose ALL the ratings you are interested in, not just one. The ratings say "may contain," which means quite often there is only one or two things that might …

We check all prices at the time we send the emails about our content-rated book deals, however, you should always check the prices before you buy because mistakes do happen. Please let us know here if a book that should be on sale isn’t discounted, and we'll pull it from the site until the author …

You can report obvious miscategorizations here. We are always working to make our system more accurate, and we carefully review each rated book we approve. Authors who repeatedly misreport their content will not be permitted to list their books with us. If you continue to receive rated books that you feel do not meet your …

With each content rating, we will tell you specifically what book attribute(s) pushed the book rating up from a lower one, and also what else it contains from the lower content ratings. This way even if you choose a higher content rating but dislike one attribute with in that rating, you can still decide not …

The easiest way to get your free book into your Kindle is to browse to the download page with your Kindle's browser and download right from there. Open the Kindle's browser. For Kindle Fire: Tap the Web tab. For Touch, Paperwhite, Voyage, Oasis, or any Kindle with a touchscreen, except Kindle Fire: Tap Home. Tap …

The easiest way to get your free book into your Kindle Fire is by using our Book Cave Direct app. Click here to learn how to do that. For other Kindles, or when the Kindle Fire is not cooperating, Amazon's “Send to Kindle by email” is a good option. Amazon assigns an email address to every …

You'll need some kind of file explorer so you can move the downloaded ebook to the Kindle app's folder. Amazon recommends ES File Explorer, so the instructions below are specific to this particular file explorer. You can download ES File Explorer from Google Play. Navigate to the download page The email you received from us will have …

Authors and publishers should always do a search in manuscripts for the actual amount of swears according to the lists below. Readers who have access to ebooks should do the same. For print books, read ten successive pages chosen from the middle of the book, count all swears and use the formula below to determine …

With billions of books to rate, MBR needs the community to help. We've created some flyers to help spread the word. Please feel free to use these in book clubs, author groups, community gatherings, and church groups. This is YOUR site, and we can't do it without you! Click on the flyer to make it …

For books that are already live on MBR, your rating will go live immediately, and you can change it at any time. For books not yet on our site, we check the links and make sure all the book information is correctly filled out before posting. That can take anywhere for a few minutes for books …