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About three weeks ago I ordered an Amazon Kindle . Since then, I've purchased and read more books than I have for the entire last year and I've loved every second of it. Just like ordering Amazon Prime did for online shopping for me, the Kindle has made it super convenient and cheap to buy books that I want to read. It's really great to be able to get a book when a topic is fresh in my interests (they tend to change daily) and start reading it within seconds... and no, I'm not getting paid to say this. I was immediately surprised by the screen when I opened the box and saw an instructional image displayed, asking me to slider the power slider at the top to turn it on. I quickly looked for a plastic tab to use to remove this sticker that covers most LCD screens on electronics, but couldn't find one. I figured I'd have to dig my nails into the corner of the screen to try and pry it loose. Then I realized I was looking at a naked screen... there was no sticker o...

I love my Amazon Prime account . I pay $79 per year and get free 2-day shipping on everything I buy on Amazon . Sure, not everything is covered by Amazon Prime, but if it's not I won't buy it from Amazon. I save myself numerous trips to the store per year and lots on shipping costs by not having any minimum purchase amounts for the free shipping. I've literally used it on a $5 item before. It's very convenient. I recently discovered a way to receive free overnight shipping and it's totally legal and doesn't break any rules. Basically it's taking advantage of Amazon's 2-day guarantee and the extremely high cost of getting things delivered on the weekend. Turns out weekend delivery is so expensive, Amazon will overnight a package to you instead of having to meet their 2-day delivery date by having it delivered on Saturday. See what I'm getting at here? If you want overnight delivery for something that you'd like to have before the weekend but f...