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15 December 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Information Today Inc. Book Sale

Information Today, Inc. is offering a one-time discount to all of our customers, friends, and family. From now through Monday, January 16, 2012, receive 40% off all book purchases made through the Information Today, Inc. website. The discount is good on an unlimited number of orders placed during the sale period—and with more than 150 [...]

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29 August 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Deals & Freebies

Yesterday I was stumbling around the web and came across a site I hadn’t heard of before called 101 Free Tech Books. They have a raffle once a month and give away print tech books (not e-books) to the winners. If you’ve bought a book on programming or computers lately you know that these books [...]

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24 August 2009 ~ 5 Comments

Online services should work: A rant about Staples Online

Today I spent the day in the library collecting resources for my research. I saved everything to my jump drive and thought I’d go to an office store after the library to get the articles printed (the library cost $.15 a page and the office store is $.05). I looked at the websites for Office [...]

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18 December 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Pricey Booklover Gift

If you’re still looking for the perfect gift for the book lover in your life (and you have $80) this might be an options for you. Even with a heavy duty air purifier and regular vacuuming around the apartment, our book collection can be a pain to clean, gathering dust like a Katamari dustball. The [...]

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12 December 2008 ~ 0 Comments

SantaThing is so cool!

Somehow I missed this last year, but LibraryThing has announced its second annual SantaThing event!. SantaThing is Secret Santa for LibraryThing members. The idea is simple. Pay $25. You play Santa to a random LibraryThing member, and find them up $20 worth of books, based on their library or a short description. Someone else does [...]

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08 December 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Information Today, Inc. Holiday Blowout Sale

Now this is the kind of sale that I love!! Stock up on your library related titles at Information Today during their holiday sale: 40% Off All In-Stock Books When You Order Online! The discount is good on an unlimited number of orders placed during the sale period—and with more than 150 titles available on [...]

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06 December 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Holiday Shopping Dealines

There is a very handy list from Dealhack that tells you when you have to order by in order to get your gifts in time for Christmas. From Amazon to Zappos, here is Dealhack’s 2008 list of holiday shipping deadlines for over 150 top retailers. For each, we assume that items ship out one day [...]

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14 August 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Universal Wish List

Ooooo – Check out this message that I found today on my Amazon.com wish list. I’m going to have to give this a whirl!! Technorati Tags: amazon

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06 June 2008 ~ 0 Comments

PayPal Plugin

This is pretty darn neat. You can now use PayPal on sites that don’t use PayPal. PayPal provides a quick and easy way to pay for goods on eBay, Half.com, or other sites that accept the service. But what if you want to buy something from a store that doesn’t accept PayPal, but don’t feel [...]

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29 May 2008 ~ 1 Comment

New Borders.com Site

I mentioned that the new Borders.com Beta site was available back in January, but the new Borders.com site wasn’t ready until now! If you’re interested in searching Borders online apart from Amazon (which is where Borders has been for years), then give their new site a look. I certainly like the new homepage and the [...]

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