Most of my readers know that I am a complete book-a-holic. As a matter of fact, my used book store on Amazon is named “TN Book-A-Holic”! So it’s official!! I am addicted to books (and especially curriculum)! My FAVORITE book store is Amazon by far! I have been a prime member for 5+ years because not only am I a book-a-holic, I am also impatient to get what I just bought 🙂 With Amazon Prime, I get my books (or toys, groceries, music, houseware items, etc.) in two days! Recently they have added so many new benefits to the membership that I am just starting to really take advantage of them myself. Amazon lists the benefits as follows:
- FREE Two-Day Shipping on eligible items. Note: If the item you’re ordering is out of stock or unavailable to ship, we’ll get it to you two days after it’s back in stock. Remember to check the cut-off time shown on the detail page. Items are delivered every day but Sunday, and orders over $1300 may require a signature.
- FREE Standard Shipping on eligible items.
- FREE No Rush Shipping (typical delivery one week after placing an order). Note: You may receive promotional credit for selecting No-Rush Shipping. Credit will be automatically applied to your Amazon.com account once the first package from a No-Rush Shipping-eligible order ships. You’ll receive an e-mail as soon as the credit is available. You may select No-Rush Shipping as many times as it’s offered to you, but you won’t be eligible for the credit if you cancel your No-Rush Shipping order or return items from it.
- Shipping Upgrades to expedite delivery.
- Free Prime Instant Video access for paid or free trial members in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Note: Instant Video isn’t available to customers receiving free Amazon Prime shipping benefits through Amazon Student, Amazon Mom, or as guests of another membership.
- Kindle Owners’ Lending Library access to members in the U.S. For more information, go to Kindle Owners’ Lending Library.
Note: Customers in a paid membership, free trial or receiving a free month of Prime benefits with a Kindle Fire activation are eligible. The Kindle device must be associated with the Prime account that’s eligible for the benefit.
The two benefits I personally am most excited about are the Kindle Lending Library and the Instant Video Access. We bought the boys used Kindles this year and we are already using them in our homeschool classroom all the time. If you are a regular reader, you probably saw the POE post where I purchased Meet Christopher Columbus as a Kindle version for our read alouds! Kindles themselves are already saving us a bunch of money on books! But now with the lending library… we should see even bigger savings! The Instant Video Access is great to view videos in our homeschool (and family time). We canceled our cable earlier this year and bought Roku. So with the Roku and this Instant Video access… we have cable replaced very inexpensively!
Interested in checking it out for yourself? Amazon is having a promotion where you can get an Amazon Prime 30-Day free trial to see if you think it is worth the $79 a year. For us, we know it has saved us money… but you get to evaluate it for yourself. Join Amazon Prime – Watch Over 40,000 Movies! If you are like us, every dime we can save is important right now!
Until next time…
Trish Corlew
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