New Kindle Game - POGO Hearts, Spades and More!

POGO Hearts, Spades and More! ($3.99), by Electronic Arts Inc., is a collection of five card games for Kindle. This is the seventh entry in the Kindle Game arena for EA and I suspect it's only a matter of time before I give in and get it - I have the other six and all are great implementations (and Monopoly got played here nearly every day for months after it came out).

Game Description
Play 5 popular card games: Hearts, Spades, Euchre, Gin and Canasta.

In Hearts, the object is to win as few points-paying hearts as possible or to win all of the points-paying cards at once. The winner is the one who finishes with the fewest points at the end of the game. In Spades, the object is to bid and win a specific number of hands, by playing the highest card by round or by playing the highest spade. The team that bids and wins the most hands, wins the game. In Euchre, the object is for you and your partner to get as many tricks per round as possible. You get tricks by having the highest trump card or highest suited card if no trump card is played. The team that scores 10 points first wins. The goal of Gin is to make sets of cards, based on runs in suit or matching rank. The player who can make the most matches earliest typically wins. In Canasta, you make sets of up to seven cards. The player who first makes sets of all his cards will make the most points and typically wins.

Learn and master each game through in-depth tutorials with rules and tips on how to improve your play and track your stats across all 5 games.

What game are you going to play first?

New Kindle App - TakeNote

TakeNote ($0.99), by IzzyLabs, is a new note taking app for Kindle, the first one from this publisher.

App Description
TakeNote is a tool for Kindle that lets you jot down whatever is on your mind quickly and easily.

TakeNote is designed to make note taking quick and easy. For example, as soon as TakeNote opens, you can start taking notes right away without having to press any buttons to begin. You can capture a phone number or address, add to a daily diary, take some meeting notes, and even save a shopping list while on the go.

For easy access, your notes are listed in your notebook in chronological order. You can add, edit, or delete them as you see fit. While navigating a note, you can quickly jump to the top or bottom if needed. Help pages are available from anywhere in the title.

TakeNote lets you jot down what you are thinking right now.

Free and Bargain Book Updates

First, for those taking advantage of the Georgette Heyer sale, a few pricing updates.

• Sylvester: or The Wicked Uncle has finally dropped to $1.99. It was apparently and very briefly marked as free while the price was fluctuating (mostly between $9.39 and $9.99), but this price should stay until the end of the sale.
• Frederica is apparently selling so well, it's price has dropped further to $1.59
• Simon the Coldheart has dropped to $1.79

The pricing genies at Amazon often drop the price of (non-Agency) books that are selling well or jumping a lot on the movers and shakers list, so the last two books could see their prices go back to $1.99 at any time.

Next up, a number of books that are now free in additional formats (links are to the original posts). The first is a novella that is finally free in the Kindle store, the next two books that were originally only free for Kindle customers in the UK and Europe, that are now free in the US, while the rest have additional EPUB formats that are now free..

• Haunting the Night (Kindle/EPUB/nook/noDRM)
• More Than Me (Kindle)
• The Seeking Kiss (Kindle/nook)
• Free Short Story Trio (Kindle/EPUB/nook)
• Zendegi (Kindle/EPUB/nook) - recommended!
• The Everything College Survival Book (Kindle/EPUB/nook)
• Grammatically Correct (Kindle/EPUB/nook)
• The Edge of Grace (Kindle/EPUB/nook)
• Guns (Kindle/EPUB/nook)
• The Slackers Guide to U.S. History (Kindle/EPUB/nook)
• The Everything Guide to Study Skills (Kindle/EPUB/nook)
• The Everything Guide to Algebra (Kindle/EPUB/nook)
• The Wind Knot (Kindle/EPUB/nook)
• Portable MFA in Creative Writing (Kindle/EPUB/nook)
• Organized Teacher, Happy Classroom (Kindle/EPUB/nook)
• I'm an English Major--Now What? (Kindle/EPUB/nook)
• Robert's Rules of Writing (Kindle/EPUB/nook)
• Hurricanes in Paradise (Kindle/EPUB/nook)
• Crossing the Bridge (Kindle/nook)

$5 off a $10 purchase at Amazon (KSO)

This offer is only for those with a Kindle with Special Offers:

Save $5 on a $10 purchase at Amazon.com

Click on offer, then click on the link on the offer page to receive an email with the promotion code. Sign-up for this offer expires on August 20.

You'll get an email (right away), a link to the Special Offer page and a promotion code to enter at checkout. Once you have the promotional code, you have until September 20 to complete your purchase. Like previous offers, this one requires you to use the full checkout process in order to enter your promotional code. Also, like all Amazon sales that use promotional codes, if you have a gift card balance, you must use it for the payment (if there is not a sufficient balance, then you can pick which credit card or other payment to use).

This offer can be used more than once per account, so long as you have more than one KSO registered. Just click on the ad on each device to receive the individual promotion codes via email.

There are a few restrictions on this offer - no gift cards or digital products (including Kindle books). But, there is no restriction on adding this promotion onto any other valid promotion at Amazon, including the KSO offers, such as the $10 off Kindle Accessories offer that expires on Aug 19, the Save $5 on Kindle reading lights offer (stack all three and get some of the reading lights for free), the 50% off Kindle Lighted Cover offer, the Save $25 on Jewelry offer (net $30 off $50) or the Save $25 on Textbooks offer (yielding $30 off $100 if you were taking advantage of that one) or .... Well, you get the idea. Remember, too, if you don't have Prime shipping, that it's the total before the promotion codes are added that counts towards the $25 free shipping requirement, so even if the total ends up being under $25 (or even free), you shouldn't have to pay shipping on most items for these offers, either.

Save $40 on Watches at Endless.com (KSO)

This offer is only for those with a Kindle with Special Offers:

Save $40 when you spend $100 on watches at endless.com

Click on offer, then click on the link on the offer page to receive an email with the promotion code. Sign-up for this offer expires on August 20.

You'll get an email (right away), a link to the Special Offer page and a promotion code to enter at checkout. Once you have the promotional code, you have until September 20 to complete your purchase. Like previous offers, this one requires you to use the full checkout process in order to enter your promotional code. Also, like all Amazon sales that use promotional codes, if you have a gift card balance, you must use it for the payment (if there is not a sufficient balance, then you can pick which credit card or other payment to use).

This offer can be used more than once per account, so long as you have more than one KSO registered. Just click on the ad on each device to receive the individual promotion codes via email.

There are definitely some extremely expensive watches on Endless, but there seem to be a number of reasonably priced ones as well. You don't have to buy a single watch that costs over $100, but can add multiple watches to a single order totaling $100. I know I'm going to look thru the list and maybe pick out an early Christmas gift (if you have someone graduating soon, it might be a good time to look for him or her, as well).