Check Out the Great Mother's Day Deal at Amazon.com

Two Great Deals for Mom

Get an $25 Amazon Gift Certificate when you purchase a Kindle 3G or Kindle DX.

Doctor Who Season 6 Available at Amazon

For the Doctor Who fans out there, Doctor Who: The Impossible Astronaut is available at Amazon Instant Video! I'm only getting basic/expanded cable at home, and BBC America isn't one of the channels we gete. But thanks to Amazon Instant video, I can still watch Doctor Who without paying a lot for a higher costing cable package.

I had a laugh though. Death Valley is in California, not Utah!

Kindle DX $299 (Down $80) - Through Midnight April 15, 2011

Kindle DX available for $299 today only (April 15th). That's $80 off the regular price!

Features:

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  New High Contrast Pearl E-Ink Screen
• 9.7" Diagonal Display
• Read in sunlight, no glare
• Books in under 60 seconds
• Buy once, read everywhere
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  Global Coverage, wireless coverage in over 100 countries & territories
• Auto Rotating Screen
• Large selection over 900,000 books
• Free book samples
• Built in PDF Reader
• Battery life with wireless off 2-3 weeks
• Battery life with wireless on seven days
• Storage 3,500 books

Buy today, because the price goes back up tomorrow!

Amazon Kindle Special Offers for $114

Get a Kindle Wireless Reading Device, Wi-Fi, Graphite, 6" Display with New E Ink Pearl Technology - includes Special Offers & Sponsored Screensavers
for $114. That’s $25 less than the regular model. You’ll be receiving special offers on your screensaver as well as a strip at the bottom of the page. Don’t worry, it won’t affect your reading.

Special offers such as:

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  $10 for $20 Amazon.com Gift Card
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  $6 for 6 Audible Books (normally $68)
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  $1 for an album in the Amazon MP3 Store (choose from over 1 million albums)
• $10 for $30 of products in the Amazon Denim Shop or Amazon Swim Shop

Cat Bordhi's New Sock Book for Knitters

Knitters!

Have you checked out Cat Bordhi's Personal Footprints for Insouciant Sock Knitters: Book Two in the New Pathways for Sock Knitters Series? I got mine yesterday, and talk about illuminating. I thought New Pathways for Sock Knitters: Book One was innovative, but this one looks even better. She has included a new stretchy bind off method. Several ah ha moments!

Check it out!

On Novels, Series, Stand Alones and Trilogies

Back in the 80s, I started reading Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time Series but got bogged down about book four. Robert Jordan started that series, and it became a best seller. Each book while having an ending of sorts, also had a cliff hanger. As the series progressed, more characters and story lines were introduced. He wanted to put every little detail into his world. Unfortunately, he never lived to complete it. If you've followed the series, Brandon Sanderson took over in Book 13!

I really like Anne McCaffrey's Pern Series because even though Mrs. McCaffrey has written over a dozen books, maybe even twenty or more books in the Pern world, they are either stand alone books, or at the most grouped into a trilogy. By stand alone, I mean that the story is complete in itself, while trilogies usually are a three-book story with a cliff hanger at the end of each book. Now, Todd McCaffrey, Anne McCaffrey's son has continued the Pern legacy.

Probably the most famous trilogy is The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary, One Vol. Edition.

Check them out!

Not So Good Deal at eBay

Over on ebay, cruising for iPads, I saw an iPad 2 with a top bid of $30. I placed a bid via eSnipe, and read more carefully especially the shipping. It had a shipping charge of $600! Needless to say, I clicked back to eSnipe and deleted my bid!

If you're going to place a bid, make sure you use a sniping service, because if you change your mind, you can cancel the snipe. If I had made the bid via eBay, I would have been stuck with an iPad that cost $633, and the same model was running for $499 at apple.com.