What is Kindle MatchBook? A Way to Kill Boredom at Work

Transfer Your Favorite Print Books to Kindle for Free With Kindle MatchBook

OMG! Here is an excellent way to kill time at work. Log onto Amazon and start searching for books you bought back in the day. Yes. Imagine you bought a book from Amazon 10 years ago. Well, now you can have books that you bought in print transferred to your Kindle through the Kindle MatchBook service today for as low as .99 cents! But some are even Free!

Amazon is adding books every day, so yours are bound to make the list. If they aren't available already.

Amazon already has thousands of titles dating back 18 years

I was excited about this. Now, instead of counting the hours on the clock until its time for you to check out, you can actually use your brain to test your memory by trying to remember the books you have in your personal library at home and getting them transferred to your Kindle. For thousands of qualifying books, your past, present, and future print-edition purchases now allow you to buy the Kindle edition for $2.99, $1.99, $0.99, or free.

According to the website:

"MatchBook makes it easy to have both the print and Kindle editions of books you love--reread and rediscover your favorites with features like X-Ray, Popular Highlights, and Whispersync on your Kindle or free Kindle reading apps for phones, computers, and tablets."

"Kindle MatchBook is available on new book purchases, too. More than 70,000 books have been enrolled so far, including Life of Pi, Wool, Johnny Carson, and Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site. Keep checking back, because we'll be adding more Kindle MatchBook titles regularly." 

If this doesnt kill time for you, I don't know what will. 

Happy Searching!

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OHW Rewind -- Break Hustlers: Smokers

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Look, I understand that you have an addiction. Me, I’m addicted to push-pins. Right now, I have a push-pin of Africa, including Madagascar on my cubicle wall. So yes, I understand addiction. However, my addiction doesn’t allow me anywhere between 2 – 4 extra breaks at my job.

I thought that I was hardly working until I peeped what our office smokers were getting away with. “I have to go smoke a bud,” they’d say. “I’m stressed out, I’ll be right back,” they’d say. No matter the excuse, they are briskly headed for the exits and no one could be the wiser.

Except for me, the non-smoker. It’s not like they Febreeze themselves before coming back. You can smell the nicotine from 10 cubicle aisles away, not to mention the hot breath they acquired while eating an onion bagel just 20 minutes before. I just don’t understand how these people can get away with extra breaks, yet would monitor me if I so happen to come back 10 minutes late from lunch.

I don’t have any tips to stop the ‘Break Hustlers’ from doing their business. I’ll just be damned if every day their smoke breaks equal up to an extra hour of free time and I am not getting mine. When I walk back into the office with lunch from Popeye’s and you know that it takes 20 minutes each way to get there, not including the time it takes to get my car out of the lot, you’ll then realize who the true guru of hardly working is… smoke that!

The (S)talker: You Can't Escape the Inevitable

Do you find yourself creeping around the cubicle maze, trying to keep your height below the teal green walls, hoping that you will not be...

"Hey, let me tell you about what my husband did last night," says the (S)talker.

Every office has one... if you have more than one, we feel for you. The (S)talker (stalker + talker) is the co-worker that can't get enough of telling the same story, word for word to any person that gives eye contact for more than .001 of a second. They are fearless, cunning, and down right annoying. The (S)talker has no sense of time or work schedule for themself, but they know your every move - from car to building, from elevator to office, from desk to lounge, from lunch and back.

The (S)talker is relentless to a point that if you are on your phone, they will hover around until you hang up and immediately hop into a story about their poison ivy covered kids, Stetson drenched husband, nagging wives and family vacations that you can't afford to go on.

There is no escape. If you try to walk to the copier, they'll follow you. If you are in the middle of a conversation, they'll hop in off topic and shut it down. If you are microwaving your lunch, they'll pop up right behind you to say that Healthy Choice is a better frozen food brand than what you're about to eat and that her daughter went through a menstrual cycle for the first time over the weekend.

Let's face it, Batman couldn't hold a candle up to the ninja-like skills the (S)talker possesses. However, we at OrHardlyWorking came up with a few ways to delay your (S)talker from talking about how their son bowled a 215 with his lucky red jammies on.

• The Tag-Team method - since the (S)talker is pretty loud in telling their stories, one of your tag-team partners could call you on the phone, and you could act like a work emergency just came up. Please leave the area immediately without many words. "I gotta Go" should be enough

I know, only one tip. We wish we had more tips, but boy are these (S)talkers some crafty SOB's...

Tell us about the (S)talkers in your office area, and how do you get rid of them...