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: Has your lunch ever embarrassed you?

Have you ever brought food to work or school that you could not bring yourself to eat in front of your co-workers or classmates? Maybe it was tuna and you didn't want to hear complaints about the smell. Or even peanut butter and jelly?
Today I brought Chicken in a Biskit crackers and chicken Vienna Sausages. I was only working half a day, and didn't need anything too heavy. So, when I saw the crackers and sausages in the pantry this morning, while deciding what to take to munch on, I snatched them up!
However, once I got to work, I realized what a horrible mistake I had made. Here I am making a very good salary, trying not to stand out as the only "colored" person in the office (that's another story!) and I find myself about to chow down on potted meat (in phallic form) and crackers! What does that say about me? Does it reveal my impoverished upbringing? I mean, what will people say? And the smell? well, you know what vienna sausages smell like, don't you? (They kind of smell like spam flavored hot dog water.)
Anyway, I blatantly placed the box of crackers on my desk. The sausages... Well, they're in my purse. I have them securely wedged between my wallet, and a bottle of water. I use a fork to dip down into my purse when nobody's looking, and quickly snatch up a yummy piece of pressed meat .

I bet my co-worker is wondering why I keep dipping down under my desk. And he's probably wondering about the smell...

Guru Rant: I am not the guru

Has this ever happened to you:

You volunteer for a special project at work that is not really in your field of expertise per se, but you have some knowledge of what they need in that area. Let's say it's something like, taking pictures at a conference. Your wonderful boss decides to have you not only take photos of events for your firm, but tells a rep from another agency that you wouldnt mind sharing the pictures with them in addition to getting a few more shots that they requested.

Going in you know its going to get bad. And it does.

After the conference, you take the time out of your busy schedule and burn the photos to a CD. You even categorize them and place them in separate folders because you want to represent your firm in the most positive light.

Next thing you know, the point of contact at the other firm is asking you all types of questions. He wants to know if you can print out a contact sheet, make prints of select photos, and even has the nerve to ask you to burn him another CD for his co-worker!!!

To top it off, now that he "knows" you, you have become the one and only contact about photography in the office, even though you've explained over and over that you are not a photographer. He starts dropping by your desk asking for little favors, asking you questions to which you have no idea how to answer, and he refuses to go to anyone else.

You have become the GURU. What do you do?