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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Today's Deals

If you don't want to brave the crowds to try to get one (of the very limited number of) doorbuster Kindle Keyboards at Target, you might check out Best Buy, who has them for $5 more and where you can order them today. With all these sales, Amazon may also have a sale on them either Thanksgiving Day or on Black Friday, but it will be a first time for the Kindle series, if they do. To protect that new Kindle, you might want to check out the deal on M-Edge Executive Kindle Jackets over on IceMonkey, where they are $14.99 while supplies last ($40 at Amazon).

Additional formats on free books, including some EPUB's at Sony for a change.

If you need a new MP3 player, you might want to take a look at Amazon's featured Black Friday deal on the SanDisk Sansa Clip+ 4 GB ($29.95; multiple colors). This is the MP3 player that I use and it works very well, both with Audible and for putting MP3's on it for listening to music, as well as listening to FM radio (it has a digital tuner) or using as a voice recorder. You'll get a $2 MP3 credit with it, which isn't much, but will buy you a couple of songs to get started with. There is a newer model (which ads color for cover images), but at this price, I'm considering get a second one for backup and/or listening to audiobooks just in the car.

I also noticed when playing with an order, that as a Prime Member, Amazon would like to entice me to take the slower 5-7 day shipping on orders over $25 (or to is seems, I didn't get the offer on a $10 order). If I pick the slower shipping, they will throw in an additional $1 in free MP3's (so, $3 total on this particular item).
Book Description
There's so much more to love when you play with a SanDisk Sansa Clip+ MP3 player. With four gigabytes of storage, this tiny player lets you listen to up to 1000 songs in stunning audio quality. It boasts a wide array of outstanding features, including an FM radio, long-life battery, and integrated voice recorder. And with its expandable memory card slot, you can add pre-loaded microSD, microSDHC, or slotRadio cards so you can listen to your favorite music, podcasts and audio books without having to access a computer or wait for downloads.

Brought to you by SanDisk, the global leader in flash memory cards, the Sansa Clip+ MP3 player offers distinctively big sound and a wide array of features packed into a tiny, ultra-compact design.

The Sansa Clip+ MP3 player, recipient of an August 2009 CNET Editors' Choice award, is built to bring your music to life. The player features solid-state flash memory for skip-free playback, making it ideal for working out, and with MP3 quality for a rich, full-bodied sound. Whether you're a jazz aficionado or a classic rocker, the Sansa Clip+ MP3 player will ensure that your music comes through loudly and clearly.

The Sansa Clip+ MP3 player supports the most popular audio formats, including MP3, WMA, secure WMA, Audible, Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC.

Thanks to the Sansa Clip+ MP3 player's expandable memory card slot, you don't have to rely on your computer or the Internet to listen to the music you love. Simply insert a preloaded microSD or microSDHC card, and you'll be ready to play music, podcasts, or audio books in seconds--with no waiting for downloads and no computer required.

Leaving Paradise ($0.99), the young adult title by Simone Elkeles, is today's Kindle Deal of the Day.
Book Description
Nothing has been the same since Caleb Becker left a party drunk, got behind the wheel, and hit Maggie Armstrong. Even after months of painful physical therapy, Maggie walks with a limp. Her social life is nil and a scholarship to study abroad—her chance to escape everyone and their pitying stares—has been canceled.

After a year in juvenile jail, Caleb’s free . . . if freedom means endless nagging from a transition coach and the prying eyes of the entire town. Coming home should feel good, but his family and ex-girlfriend seem like strangers.

Caleb and Maggie are outsiders, pigeon-holed as "criminal" and "freak." Then the truth emerges about what really happened the night of the accident and, once again, everything changes. It’s a bleak and tortuous journey for Caleb and Maggie, yet they end up finding comfort and strength from a surprising source: each other.

The Age of Instability ($1.56 / £0.99 UK), by David Smith, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US Edition is $9.58).
Book Description
Bored with endless grandstanding and people being wise after the event? Then, The Age of Instability is the one book you should read on the financial crisis. Setting the near collapse of the international financial markets and banking system in a global and historical context, Sunday Times Economics editor and bestselling author, David Smith, looks not only at the political and economic factors that contributed to the fall of Lehmans, collapse of Iceland and disintegration of the subprime mortgage market but also at the emergence of a culture of risk and greed that made it possible to believe that greed was good and the good times would last forever. The Age of Instability provides an authoritative yet accessible guide to what happened, where, and when with practical suggestions for what needs to happen next.

This Boy's Life ($2.25 Kindle, B&N),a memoir by Tobias Wolff, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle.
Book Description
This unforgettable memoir, by one of our most gifted writers, introduces us to the young Toby Wolff, by turns tough and vulnerable, crafty and bumbling, and ultimately winning. Separated by divorce from his father and brother, Toby and his mother are constantly on the move, yet they develop an extraordinarily close, almost telepathic relationship. As Toby fights for identity and self-respect against the unrelenting hostility of a new stepfather, his experiences are at once poignant and comical, and Wolff does a masterful job of re-creating the frustrations and cruelties of adolescence. His various schemes - running away to Alaska, forging checks, and stealing cars - lead eventually to an act of outrageous self-invention that releases him into a new world of possibility.