10 years of ILMK! Free books! Amazon gift certificate giveaway! All to thank you!
August 28, 2009…the first post in this blog.
August 28, 2019: today!
It’s been quite a journey…I may have been the driver, but you’ve been the engine. 🙂
I want to thank you…and I’ve got some gifts lined up to do just that.
First, three of my books are free on Amazon.com…please make sure you check that they are free. I’ve asked Amazon to make them free today (and I’ve extended that period through the weekend), but you never know. They also may not be free in your market.
The Collected I Love My Kindle Blog Volume 1 (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
This is the first 101 posts in this blog. 🙂 I did 101 posts so I wouldn’t cut off Doctor Watson’s Blog: A Kindle Abandoned (which is a four-part story).
The Mind Boggles: A Unique Book of Quotations (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
When it was first published back in 2012, I believe it was the most popular book of quotations in any format at Amazon…for a really, really short time. 😉 The focus is on geeky books/movie/TV and I know they aren’t the most profound quotations for everybody, but I really enjoyed doing this.
The Kindle Kollection: Three Early Books about the Kindle
This one combines the three below into one volume:
* ILMK! (I Love My Kindle): Being an Appreciation of Amazon’s E-Book Reader, with Tips, Explanations, and Humor
* Free Books for Your Kindle
* Frequently Asked Kindle Questions
Regular readers, though, now I’ve given those away before. 😉
I’ll only have a first decade celebration in this blog once, and this is sort of a last hurrah from the paid subscriptions…so I’m going to give away 10 $10 Amazon gift cards!
I thought I could do that through an Amazon giveaway (I love doing those), but gift cards aren’t eligible.
If you want to be in the running for one, please comment on this post saying that’s the case. Do not include your contact information in your comment! I’ll see the e-mail address you use to post. I will only use that to send you the gift card (it would just be electronic) if you are picked.
I’ll give people until noon Pacific time this Sunday, September 1st, 2019, to comment. Then, I’ll randomly select ten winners from those comments that say they are interested. Each person can only win once, unless there are fewer than ten comments (in which case, I’ll randomly select again for who gets the ones exceeding ten…I think that’s unlikely, though). I will not publish the e-mail addresses or names of the winners, although you can mention you won in a comment, if you like. I’d love to have some idea what you plan to spend it on, as long as it isn’t too personal!
Good luck!
In no particular order, here are ten of my favorite posts from ILMK’s first decade. Is that egotistical? I don’t think so…I think it would be unhealthy if you didn’t like and take pride in what you do.
Okay, that was 11…one to grow on. 🙂
I didn’t pick any of my analysis posts…those were actually some of my favorites to do, but they’d be really obsolete at this point.
I have, of course, loved comments from my readers, but there isn’t a good way to recognize those here.
I certainly want to recognize my fellow bloggers: we formed a very loose community, but would discuss things in e-mail sometimes.
I want to thank all the authors! Whether they were already famous or not, I’m always honored when an author “stops by” to contribute. I’m still honored that Anne Rice gave me permission to reproduce a quote
That permission came from the Kindle Forums, where I was super active for some time, and which in a way, led to the genesis of this blog.
I want to particularly thank Len Edgerly on his podcast several times:
The Kindle Chronicles
Thanks also to Amazon! None of this would have happened without them, and I’ve appreciated my interactions with them. I’ve never gotten to interview Jeff Bezos…but maybe some day in the future, because I’m not planning to stop. 🙂
Finally, and specifically, I want to thank all my readers and especially my paid subscribers. Without your interest, I would never have kept ILMK going this long.
Thank you.
Join thousands of readers and try the free ILMK magazine at Flipboard!
All aboard The Measured Circle’s Geek Time Trip at The History Project!
Bufo’s Alexa Skills
* I am linking to the same thing at the regular Amazon site, and at AmazonSmile. When you shop at AmazonSmile, half a percent of your purchase price on eligible items goes to a non-profit you choose. It will feel just like shopping at Amazon: you’ll be using your same account. The one thing for you that is different is that you pick a non-profit the first time you go (which you can change whenever you want)…and the good feeling you’ll get. 
Shop ’til you help!
This post by Bufo Calvin originally appeared in the I Love My Kindle blog.
I Love My Kindle 