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. …

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 …

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 …