free stuff!

Want some free K-Cups?   Here you go! Sign up soon,  they do tend to run out of these samples kind of quickly. 

Want a free audio book?  (if you've never listened to an audio book,  I highly recommend them)  Here you go! On that one,  you do have to sign up for an Audible.com membership.  You will NOT BE CHARGED unless you forget to cancel your membership, and you can cancel the membership as soon as you have downloaded your audio file.   If you have an Amazon account (and let's be real here, who doesn't have an Amazon account?) you don't even have to put your credit card information in,  it uses your saved one.    Just don't forget to cancel your audible account! 

I signed up for the free audio book for the sole purpose of getting Room by Emma Donoghue.   It's my book club selection for November, and I need to get started on it.   Much to my dismay,  it was not available in ebook format at Boston Public Library!  What?   I have a $7.00 late fee at my local library,  so I can't place a hold on the physical book.  I'm firmly against paying late fees,  so I'll probably never be able to place a hold on a physical book again at my library (still can get ebooks though!).   What's a girl to do?  I don't pay for books.   I find it offensive, much like paying late fees.  I do have a gift card to Barnes and Noble, and it was only $9.99 in Nook format,  but still - $10 for a book?  No thank you!   Luckily, I remembered about my free audio book that I've been hearing about on the Stuff You Missed in History Class, and Stuff Mom Never Told You podcasts,  so off I went.    VICTORY IS MINE!   Another free book!   

Nook!

One of the reasons I changed my opinion on E-readers is the Lendme option on the Nook (which I believe is now available on the Kindle, or will be shortly. Don't quite me though, once I decided on the Nook I stopped keeping up with Kindle updates) and the ability to borrow from the library. I've said it a million times before, but I would go broke if I had to buy all my books, so it was pretty important I still had a way to borrow them.

My local public library doesn't have a ton of eBooks for borrowing right now, but the number of books is slowly increasing. I have heard it's worth paying money to join a larger library just to get more content, so I need to look into that. When I was in high school, anyone in MA could belong to the Boston Public Library, so that might be an option. I was in high school a long time ago, so clearly more research will be needed.

A week or so ago I went through my library's catalog of eBooks and placed a bunch of them on hold and one of them was available for check out today. Getting the right software installed on my computer was a daunting task and there is no way I could have done it without Andrew's help. But now I have a nice new book waiting for me on the Nook! The one drawback - it will disappear in 14 days. Good news: no late fees! bad news: I may not be done with it!

My mother gave me a Barnes & Noble gift certificate for my birthday and I already bought a book. I was still trying to plug through The Secret Garden (I'm a sucker for all those older free books that are available!) so I never started it.

Now I need to start 3 Willows: The New Sisterhood Series, Book 1. When I'm done with that, it's on to Heart of the Matter by Emily Griffin. I have no idea what 3 Willows is about - I'm not even sure why I placed it on hold. It looks like a young adult book, but that's never stopped me from reading a series before!