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FREE Kindle Book - Printers and Ink: Money Saving Secrets Everyone Should Know (Was $2.99)

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Associatedbcouper @ Amazon Cloud Reader on 03/08/2013 - 11:52 amazon.com (2180 clicks)
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Hi Oz Bargainers
I listed this book here a few months ago for 99c and thought I'd go one better this time and offer it free.
Would love to hear your thoughts.

I really do think this book is a must read for people that don't want to pay the high costs of printer ink. Even the most seasoned Oz Bargainer will learn something. It's an easy read and is quite humorous at times, definitely not dry and boring.
Download it for now or for later - Oz Bargain style :)

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  • meroveus on 03/08/2013 - 12:16

    Thanks for this

  • EarlyBird on 03/08/2013 - 12:17
    +4

    Free - that's the way to go in order to get good and useful feedback from Ozbargainers!

    However, readers expect writers to be able to spell or use a spelling-checker.
    Errors like "difinately not dry or boring" will most definitely damage your prospect as a writer.

    • Associatedbcouper @ Amazon Cloud Reader on 03/08/2013 - 12:19
      +6

      lucky I had a very good editor… :)
      I really do need an editor for my forum posts

      • EarlyBird on 03/08/2013 - 12:29
        +8

        It's good to see that you take criticism with humour and the right spirit, that's an increasingly rare quality these days.

        • Associatedbcouper @ Amazon Cloud Reader on 03/08/2013 - 13:46
          +1

          Your criticism was fair… and my mistake was stupid.
          I would go insane if I didn't laugh at my many mistakes (but still learn from them)

        • Tenebrae on 04/08/2013 - 00:23
          +1

          I thought you were just from New Zealand.

  • Associatedbcouper @ Amazon Cloud Reader on 03/08/2013 - 13:38

    <edit> Just cleaning up my mess

  • nerd1 on 03/08/2013 - 14:00

    has this been updated since your last post?

    • Associatedbcouper @ Amazon Cloud Reader on 03/08/2013 - 14:35
      +7

      Only small changes. Not much has changed in the printer ink industry in the past 2 months; people are still getting ripped off.

  • shmahoo on 03/08/2013 - 14:57
    +9

    I used to think that such good books like this that are absolutely free were just a pigment of my imagination.

    I hope my memories of reading this book never fade

    • Associatedbcouper @ Amazon Cloud Reader on 03/08/2013 - 15:44
      +6

      Amen Brother… After researching this book I put my HP in a Canon and shot it over Mount Fuji while singing an epSong

    • theStinge on 03/08/2013 - 17:24

      I see what you did there. :)
      +1

  • PJC on 03/08/2013 - 18:25

    Nice post, but I don't think I can get it because Amazon want to deliver it to something called Kindle Cloud Reader. I'm on dialup, so I might not live long enough. A PDF would have been nice …

    • Daniel15 on 04/08/2013 - 02:38

      Wow… What's the internet like on dialup these days? How do you survive with the large number of multi megabyte sites?

      • PJC on 04/08/2013 - 02:50
        +1

        If I had a pet tortoise, I would name it Dialup. And take it for a scrape around the park. Some websites I avoid (i.e. YouTube) until I stay at a relative's house.

  • mikeInside on 03/08/2013 - 18:29
    +1

    Haven't read the book, but one money-saving tip is to get a continuous ink supply system. I installed it three years ago and I haven't had to refill the ink once since then.

    In Thailand a whole CISS setup cost me about $20 and they installed it for me. In Australia we're not so lucky, my Rihac CISS was >$100, but it was still not much more than replacing the official cartridges once.

  • shmahoo on 03/08/2013 - 20:30
    +1

    With the info I learned in this ebook, I can now almost just about afford to print it out !

  • PJC on 03/08/2013 - 20:59
    +1

    Well, I went through all the Amazon processes, they created a Kindle Library for me, I clicked on Read Now, and all I get is the title followed by "Error Loading Content". Its happened 5 times now, so I give up, and I wish good luck to the author and all who are able to read the book.

    • MasterScythe on 03/08/2013 - 22:23
      -2

      Yep hence requesting mediafire, which was apparently inappropriate?
      Besides the obvious fault of Amazon hardly ever working on a Linux system (maybe it needs javascript enabled?)
      The title says FREE, yet Amazon want to mine personal info from me to see the book. That is a cost. My (and your) personal info has value to companies.
      Oh well.

      Thanks anyway OP, i'm sure most people will be happy :)

    • retiredfeline on 03/08/2013 - 22:34
      +2

      Not sure what happened for you but Cloud Reader only requires Adobe Flash plugin (not JS or Java). If you are able to view Flash media, you should be able to run the Cloud Reader. Just read the first page on Chrome on Linux, and I have no reason to believe it wouldn't be equally readable on other platforms with Flash.

      As for shipping info, yes you do have to set up an account with Amazon first, after all they are in the business of trying to sell you stuff, hence freebies now and then. I do buy stuff from them occasionally so I have an account. You are at liberty to not deal with them at all.

  • PJC on 03/08/2013 - 23:18
    -3

    As said before, nice post, but I cannot read the OP's book. He says "Download it for now or for later - OzBargain style :)". Reading something on Cloud does not seem to be a style of downloading. Uploading it to a filehoster would facilitate a normal style of downloading, but Masterscythe's request is deemed inappropriate, even though the author could delete the uploaded file at any time. Therefore, to read the book, our liberty to not at all deal with Amazon is somewhat compromised. There was no mention of Adobe Flash during my attempts, nor in the email Amazon sent. It would be a rare OzBargainer who cannot read a PDF …

    • retiredfeline on 03/08/2013 - 23:37
      +4

      Amazon's e-books are in AZW format and DRMed. I won't go into that aspect; everybody has an opinion on that. However downloading for later means pulling it down to your reader, either Cloud Reader, which will require Flash to run in your browser, or a physical Kindle, and you can read it later. Actually once you have "bought" it, it's always available for download, at least that edition.

      The author is providing it on his/her terms and is not obliged to provide it on a public archive. Perhaps he/she wants to charge for it later and having free non-DRMed copies will hinder that. So because of the author's choice if you want the book you'll have to deal with Amazon. You'll have to take that issue up with the author. To not deal with Amazon, you have the liberty of not getting the book.

      • Associatedbcouper @ Amazon Cloud Reader on 04/08/2013 - 12:39

        Thanks Greenpossum I couldn't have said it better myself.

        A part of amazon’s rules is that to be able to offer it free with them I cannot sell it anywhere else in digital form, it's called KDP select. Amazon is by far the number 1 marketplace of digital books, this fact gives me no choice but to bide by their rules.

    • Sick of This on 04/08/2013 - 09:39
      +1

      Try installing a Kindle Reader app:
      http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=sa_menu_karl?ie=UT…

  • Agret on 04/08/2013 - 03:42
    +4

    My #1 method of saving money with printer ink is to print stuff at work :P

    • Associatedbcouper @ Amazon Cloud Reader on 04/08/2013 - 12:30
      +1

      You have nailed step one in the book already ;)

    • nulled on 05/08/2013 - 00:52

      Beware! increasingly, bosses are becoming wary of employees' personal printing practices at work. Most office printers have the option of storing usage log files and even the actual files being printed.

      • cwongtech on 05/08/2013 - 01:06
        -3

        Nulled - if the printer has an internal log, usually they don't have that much memory. Just keep printing official documents so your massive personal jobs go to the end of the logs and get overwritten :p
        If there is a print server that has logs though, you can't hide from it :/

        • sferau on 05/08/2013 - 09:45
          -1

          A lot of photocopiers have pretty big hard drives and have pretty detailed logging…

        • cwongtech on 05/08/2013 - 10:16

          It depends on the model I guess, usually it just logs file name, user-who-printed the document, and number of pages

  • cwongtech on 05/08/2013 - 01:04
    -1

    @bcouper
    I have read over your book and agree with everything you have said, I've researched the stuff before so everything was not new to me (I am that seasoned OzBargainer, but I learnt about the inkjet idling leads to clogging - through experience).
    I'd like to make a point why I chose Epson +3rd party eBay inks ($2.50 for high yield, page tally is 280 b&w page, good enough for me).
    It is, indeed, important to check if there is an active market of 3rd party compatibles. I also noticed Epson rebadged their older lines of printers, and slapped new model numbers (exact same functions for some of the 'new models', along with the ink cartridge naming system, and will take a while before China manufacturers grow in the 3rd party compatibility market for the rebadged inks (possibly new chips will be needed)
    While other brands, use thermal print heads, Epson use piezo electric heads. This will mean there is no heating of ink (original or 3rd party) as seen with thermal print heads, essentially it is using electric pulses to pump/pulse out ink, hence with Epson it is impossible to clog their print heads from using 3rd party inks, this is, of course with consistent use (no extended periods of idle time that might allow ink to dry and clog)

  • citybargainhunter on 05/08/2013 - 11:53

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