Penny-Free

Notebooks, journals & interactive books for the Kindle Scribe — and one stubborn little calculator.

✦ The Calculator

Penny-Free finds the exact shelf price so your total — tax and fees included — ends in 0¢ or 5¢. No pennies. No rounding.

Open the calculator

YOUR TOTAL ENDS IN 0¢ OR 5¢ — ALWAYS

Free to use, always. Add it to your phone's home screen and it behaves like an app.

✦ From Penny-Free Press

Notebooks & Journals

Hyperlinked notebooks, sketchbooks, organizers and cooking journals, built Scribe-first: whisper links, fingertip-sized taps, no dead ends.

Browse on Etsy →

50% OFF

First Aid for Writers

A diagnostic kit series for stuck drafts — Scene, Dialogue, Mechanics, and more. Find the symptom, follow the prescription, fix the page. Every kit is 50% off for NaNoWriMo, through November 30.

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Press2Play

Interactive books powered by the Touch Entropy Matrix Engine. Randomization in a plain PDF. Not patented. Just exclusive.

The digital fortune cookie, in miniature —

Browse on Etsy →

✦ The Shelf

The books themselves, with prices. Everything is sold through the Etsy shop — sales run there often, so the price in the shop may be lower than shown here.

25% OFF

The Midnight Menagerie Tarot

The complete Press2Draw deck — 78 original animal cards, drawn right on the Scribe.

$45.00$33.75 · Buy on Etsy →

50% OFF

Press2Name — The Name Foundry

Tap to generate names — settlements, ruins, roads and regions — for worlds that need filling.

$19.99$9.99 · Buy on Etsy →

25% OFF

The Organizer

A 16-month hyperlinked planner, October 2026 to January 2028 — daily, weekly and monthly pages.

$20.00$15.00 · Buy on Etsy →

50% OFF

Scene First Aid Kit — Deluxe

24 fixes for troublesome scenes, plus the Press2Play Second Opinion draw.

$12.50$6.25 · Buy on Etsy →

Suvie Recipe Journal and Cooking Log cover

Suvie Recipe Journal & Cooking Log

100 cook logs and 52 weekly meal plans, built for Suvie owners.

$5.00 · Buy on Etsy →

Dragon Sketchbook

100 textured sketch pages under a dragon from 1557, with a hyperlinked index.

$2.50 · Buy on Etsy →

6-Subject Notebook

Six subjects, 240+ ruled pages, indexed throughout — the 99¢ door into the press.

$0.99 · Buy on Etsy →

50% OFF

The Digital Fortune Cookie

Crack a cookie on the Scribe, get a fortune — 150 fortunes in 6 flavors, the whole jar. Press2Play in a plain PDF.

$5.00$2.50 · Buy on Etsy →

Also in the shop: the Rider-Waite-Smith and Tarot de Marseille Press2Draw decks, the other First Aid kits (all 50% off for NaNoWriMo), print-at-home tarot, and a Lite edition of nearly everything for 99¢. Visit the full shop →

✦ Free Samples

FREE

Every line starts with a free sample, so you can put a thumb on it before you spend anything:

Suvie Recipe Journal — Lite (PDF, for Kindle Scribe)
Read it now · Keep it free
Organizer Lite — Sample (the 16-month Organizer's three-month season, Oct–Dec 2026 — PDF, for Kindle Scribe)
Read it now · Keep it free
The Digital Fortune Cookie — Sample (Press2Play PDF — 25 of the full book's 150 fortunes)
Read it now · Keep it free
Scene First Aid — Sample (PDF)
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Press2Name — Lite (PDF)
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Midnight Menagerie — Lite (Press2Draw tarot — 26 of 78 cards, PDF)
Read it now · Keep it free

Full versions live in the Etsy shop; the samples are the real thing, just smaller.

✦ Get It on Your Scribe

Read a sample in the browser first, no downloading needed. When you want it on your Kindle Scribe, pick your road:

OneDrive — save the PDF to OneDrive, open it in the OneDrive app, tap Share, and send it to the Kindle app.
Email — every Kindle has a Send-to-Kindle email address (on the Scribe: Settings → Your Account). Email the PDF to it as an attachment; the book shows up in your library.
Google Drive — save the PDF to Drive, open it in the Drive app, and Share it to the Kindle app — or download it and email it as above.

A USB cable works too: plug the Scribe into a computer and drop the PDF in the documents folder.

✦ The Penny List

Two ways in — take any free sample above through its (free) checkout, or leave your email right here. Either way you're on the list: the welcome note carries a $0.99-off coupon for your first order, and a note every week or two features one book and its free sample. Unsubscribe anytime.

✦ How This Started

After my Kindle Paperwhite was no longer supported, my wife gave me a Kindle Scribe. I loved the notebooks that came with it. I just wanted more of them. I wanted my own custom notebooks, with navigation that let me jump between sections, tables, and whatnot in only a few taps. That meant learning how links work in a PDF.

I am a night nurse and sometimes I get a break or have some down time. During those free moments and in my free time at home I learned and experimented with hyperlinked PDFs optimized to the Kindle Scribe's screen.

While exploring the limits of hyperlink technology I discovered a way to create a no-code randomizer within a PDF document. In technical jargon it's a human touch degradation matrix, but I call it Press2Play. I continue to make custom notebooks and booklets. I continue exploring Press2Play applications and novel uses for hyperlinks. I decided to publish my results here under the name Penny-Free Press.

The Penny-Free coin.