If you read my posts you see that I buy a lot of books. I have several ways I stretch and even add to my book budget. I thought that the first of the year would be a good time to share some of the ways I use to buy more books. This is the first of four posts.
One of the first ways I do that is to use in my Borders Rewards account. I started with the free Borders Reward account. With that account every few days I would get email coupons that gave me between 25 and 50% off one book. Since I went by Borders on a regular basis I would print my coupon and use it when I book I wanted came out. I also got Borders Bucks to spend when I spent a certain amount each year. Last year Borders started offering a Borders Reward Plus Account for $20.00. With that account I got an addition 10% off of any purchase and free shipping on any book I ordered from Border.com. I purchased The Plus account for the free shipping. Before I often ordered from Amazon but had to buy $25.00 before I got free shipping. That meant that I would not order until I had books totaling $25.00 and I seldom pre-ordered. Now if I see one book that I want and it is not in the store I can order and not pay shipping. The downside is that Borders is not as good as Amazon in getting some books shipped out. You read what happened with Alien Tango. I had another book that traveled the country before it finally arrived at my house. Even with those problems I will still keep the Plus Account and still pre-order.
One of the first ways I do that is to use in my Borders Rewards account. I started with the free Borders Reward account. With that account every few days I would get email coupons that gave me between 25 and 50% off one book. Since I went by Borders on a regular basis I would print my coupon and use it when I book I wanted came out. I also got Borders Bucks to spend when I spent a certain amount each year. Last year Borders started offering a Borders Reward Plus Account for $20.00. With that account I got an addition 10% off of any purchase and free shipping on any book I ordered from Border.com. I purchased The Plus account for the free shipping. Before I often ordered from Amazon but had to buy $25.00 before I got free shipping. That meant that I would not order until I had books totaling $25.00 and I seldom pre-ordered. Now if I see one book that I want and it is not in the store I can order and not pay shipping. The downside is that Borders is not as good as Amazon in getting some books shipped out. You read what happened with Alien Tango. I had another book that traveled the country before it finally arrived at my house. Even with those problems I will still keep the Plus Account and still pre-order.
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