Remember how I was all worried that I’d committed some ethical sin by signing up for that free trial to Amazon Prime?  I played right into their marketing hands.  While I did not renew my free trial, I bought almost all of my school books (did I mention I started grad school last week? No? I did.) through Amazon and a few extra goodies.  I even let my Barnes and Noble membership lapse while I enjoyed free 2 day shipping a la Amazon and got great discounts on not quite textbooks from all of their used affiliates.

I liked my Amazon Prime so much, I’ve put my first commerical button on the sidebar.  I’m not so quick with the web editing stuff — I’ve meant to add more links, fancy up the site, make sure there are links to my portfolio, but it’s slow, slow work.  Click the link in the sidebar and get a free Amazon Prime trial.  If you’re afraid of getting suckered, it’s really, really easy to make sure that your credit carn never gets charged if you don’t want to autorenew.  Just go to your account, click on “Prime” and turn off renew.

But you know, I might just get the service.  When you count the gas I wasted driving to a Borders that was supposed to have an additional book I needed for Thursday and then the time it will waste to go all the way to Fullerton early so I can read one measly play before class–I think it might be worth that annual fee for free, fast shipping.