Free January 2017 ebook from University of Chicago Press (DRM’ed)

The monthly free e-book promotions continue with the University of Chicago Press. This one sadly is Adobe DRM, so to download it you need an Adobe ID that is used for the evil DRMalia. Still, if you have an Adobe DRM ePUB ecosystem device or app, you may already be setup for it anyway, so not a lot of hassle. On the other hand, if you are a Kindle-only reader, then this is a kerfuffle.

Anyway, to cut a long story short, the free ebook offered for January 2017 (you have until 1/31/17 to claim it) is a 2013 book, “Looking for Strangers: The True Story of My Hidden Wartime Childhood” by Dori Katz, 184 pages long. This is not a famous book, but it averages a solid 4.6 out of 5 with 12 customer reviews at amazon.com. You have to get the free e-book through University of Chicago, I am including the link to Amazon so you can read reviews and a sample if you wish!

This is a screenshot below visually explaining how to claim the free ebook. The link in the first paragraph is how you can claim it…

January 15, 2017 Filed Under: media Tagged With: , ,

T-Mobile Tuesdays for 1/17/17 include Vanity Fair, Movie Rental, and Express and Lyft coupons

Time flies faster and faster these days, which means another T-Mobile Tuesday is almost always just around the corner. The Tuesday January 17 (2017) lot is not a bad one, two freebies and two coupons! Here’s a screenshot followed by a summary:

The two freebies is a 1-year digital subscription to Vanity Fair (like other magazines and digital publications they expand their coverage, in a way, it’s almost as if every magazine covers everything these days), and one digital movie rental at FandangoNOW. The movie rental amount you get is $5, so if you want to rent newer movies that cost $6, you have to pony up the extra dollar). Sadly, unlike Vudu that gave us an actual credit to do as we pleased, FandangoNOW’s freebie can only be used towards one movie rental, so if you rent a 99c movie, you use up the coupon, you don’t have a $4.01 balance to rent more like you would with Vudu. Vudu is pretty good 🙂

You also get two coupons. One is $20 off at Express (no, they did not close – the “The Limited” closed). You also get two $10 off coupons for Lyft. Lyft is trying to catch up to Uber which is more famous and popular, which is probably why Lyft keeps on offering T-Mobile Tuesday promotions 🙂

January 14, 2017 Filed Under: services Tagged With: , ,

FREE Noosa Yogurt for Lucky’s Rewards members

Good until the stores close on Tuesday 1/17/17, you can get a FREE 8oz Noosa Yogurt at Lucky brick and mortar stores. You have to be a Rewards member and you have to manually add the promotion to your rewards account. Using the email, it is simple, you just click on the big ole red button and that’s it. Then you buy the item, scanning your rewards card (or entering your phone number) and their computer deducts its price, making it free.

You may need an employee to make it go if you use self-checkout, although by now they are trained and can do it remotely from their “control terminal” that monitors all the self-checkout lanes.

As you can see from the pictures below, they have multiple flavors, you can pick one 8oz container for FREE! If they run out, they may be able to give you a raincheck for a freebie even (it happened to me once).

January 14, 2017 Filed Under: foods Tagged With: , , ,

T-Mobile Tuesday for 1/10/17 are a Bookshout ebook, 3-month IndieFlix membership, and $2 movie ticket

The Tuesday January 10 (2017) T-Mobile freebies, the first ones after another fiery “Uncarrier Streaming Event” (this one at CES 2017) is a media-centric promotion with three offerings:

The Bookshout promotion is ONE free e-book from a choice of ten. Eight of them are fiction, the other two are “new year, new you” type of books (diet and beauty tips). You can read these ebooks with a web browser or using the BookShout apps. Note that Bookshout is a “social media” type of app, it creates a profile for you automatically, so if you hate that kind of nonsense, go through the account and adjust things appropriately.

The $2 movie ticket is as it says, and you redeem it using the Fandango service for a movie theater ticket (the OG Fandango, not the M-Go FandangoNOW). The movie MUST be watched on Tuesday 1/10/17, so it’s kinda restrictive, but that’s why there’s a discount, Tuesdays are not exactly blockbuster movie nights 🙂

Last but not least, it’s a 3-month free subscription to movie streaming service IndieFlix. They typically offer a free 14-day trial, so with this promotion, you are getting a 90-day free trial. It is a for-pay service, $5/month or $40 per year prepaid. As the title suggests, they focus on indie films (think Sundance, Canes, etc) along with other randomness they are able to procure 🙂

January 10, 2017 Filed Under: media Tagged With: ,

Free Tor e-Book: “Off Armageddon Reef” (until 1/10/17)

If you like FREE and scifi, we have good news for you! The Tor free e-book of the month, good until January 10 (2017) is the e-book “Off Armageddon Reef” by author David Weber. You can get it by entering your email address at the Tor e-book club. You don’t even have to sign up for their e-mailing list to get the free ebook. After that, you can download it in .mobi (eg Kindle devices) or .ePUB (most reading apps and other e-readers).

This is book #1 of an 9-book series. This book (book #1 in the series) averages 4.1 out of 5 based on 300+ customer reviews at amazon.com.

Speaking of Amazon, if you are a Prime member, you can score one free e-book from a choice of six every single month. These are the choices for January 2017.

Happy reading 🙂

January 6, 2017 Filed Under: media Tagged With: ,

Free Bagel in January 2017 at Panera (YMMV)

This is a YMMV offer. Not every Panera Rewards member is offered this. I found it in my account when I checked email today. I only shop at Panera occasionally, so this promotion may be intended to encourage hibernating customers to wake up and start visiting Panera on a regular basis. I think they had a similar promotion last year or the year before that (free coffee or something like that).

All you have to do is show your Panera Rewards card or use their app. You get one free bagel per day, but you don’t get a spread. Regardless, most people would feel compelled to buy something, so you can either get a spread or coffee. Unlike the coffee offer of last year, this one is a bit more complicated since you may end up having to buy two items. But if you do this, you will likely accumulate Panera rewards along the way. Still, this is not a slam dunk deal, it depends. You can always do a to-go, grab the free bagel and buy the spread and drink your own coffee/tea away from the premises 🙂

Here’s a partial screenshot from the promotion:

January 3, 2017 Filed Under: foods Tagged With: , ,

Kindle First choices for January 2017 are here (pick one from six for FREE if a Prime member)

January 2017 is here and with it, we get the first round of Amazon Kindle First free e-book options for Prime members. As before, you pick one of the six pre-release e-book choices for free if you are a Prime member. If not, you pay $2. If you want to read more than one of the six books, you have to wait until they are released on the first of the following month (February 1st in this case).

The six choices are *drumroll*

  • “The Mutual Admiration Society” by Lesley Kagen in Family Life
  • “The Night Bird” by Brian Freeman in Suspense
  • “Never Again So Close” by Claudia Serrano, Anne Milano Appel in “Lit Fiction” ~ that’s one way to make literary fiction trendy in the eyes of younger readers 🙂
  • “Palm Trees in the Snow” by Luz Gabás, Noel Hughes in Sagas
  • “In the Shadow of Lakecrest” by Elizabeth Blackwell in Historical Fiction
  • “The Winter Over” (Ned Stark would disagree with that statement!) by Matthew Iden in Thrillers

As usual, if none of them screams at you (READ ME NOW!), just wait a few more days until they pick up more reviews. Since they are pre-release, Kindle First-ers are the only ones reviewing them. You have until January 31st in 2017 to make a pick from this lot. eBooks don’t run out 🙂

January 2, 2017 Filed Under: media Tagged With: , ,

T-Mobile Tuesday freebies for January 3

We have our first T-Mobile Tuesday of 2017, coming on January 3, and just like stereotypical clockwork, it has a “New Year Resolutions” cliche theme 🙂 A total of four items are offered, three freebies and a coupon. The coupon is $20 off of juice cleansing at “JUS by Julie” or something like that.

The three freebies have one returnee, a FandangoNow movie rental. You can rent a movie up to $5. Unlike the Vudu offer that gave you a balance and you could use it any which way you like, FandangoNow’s credit can only be used on a single movie rental and nothing else. Also note that this is not the more well-known Fandango service, but rather the service formerly known as M-Go that got purchased by Fandango. So that “Now” is important in the name 🙂

The other two freebies are digital and first timers. You get a 1-year digital subscription to the “Shape Magazine”, and you get a 1-month service to the fitness app “Aaptiv”. Apparently now companies go for two “As” in the name to be shown first in alphabetically-sorted results 🙂

January 1, 2017 Filed Under: media Tagged With: ,

Free First Uber Ride (up to $30) with Chase

If you haven’t used Uber before, and you have a Chase credit card, good until 12/31/16, if you create an Uber account using a Chase credit card, AND you can use coupon code ChaseUber over there, you can receive a free Uber ride of up to $30 in value for FREE. This offer appears when you logon to your Chase account using their website. Here’s a screenshot of the offer:

Happy Ubering 🙂

December 26, 2016 Filed Under: services Tagged With: , , ,

T-Mobile Tuesday for 12/27/16: $2 Movie Ticket, Wendy’s Frosty, Lyft Ride

Last week was perhaps the best T-Mobile Tuesday of the year (perhaps they saved it for Christmas), but the Tuesday December 27 freebies are not bad either. You get the option to buy a $2 Movie Ticket, which is pretty good considering it’s double figures now for a movie ticket. They also have two returnees, the Wendy’s small Frosty, and a free Lyft ride (up to $15). With Uber being the dominant service, it makes sense for Lyft to be aggressive offering with free rides to get people to try/use their service.

Interestingly, earlier in the week, their teasers had a fourth option, a $10 Restaurant.com credit, but Restaurant.com is such a gimmick, I am actually happy it got pulled because it’s such a baloney service. Here’s a screenshot from before it got cancelled:

December 26, 2016 Filed Under: shopping Tagged With: ,

T-Mobile Tuesday haul for December 20 is pretty good

I have complained for some sub-par T-Mobile Tuesdays the last few weeks, but we have good news! There’s a pretty good haul planned for Tuesday December 20 in 2016! Four solid and tangible promotions! One of them is to be picked up at your local T-Mobile store, so be sure to map out locations and opening hours since supplies are limited. You get either a pair of touchscreen gloves or a beanie hat. I do not know if it is one per line or one per account. Time will tell when it goes live, and it may also be at the discretion of each individual store depending on their inventory.

The next offer you can get, a 6-inch Subway sandwich. Can’t argue with free food, starch and carbs and all 🙂

The other two offers are online, a $25 off discount at the Zappos website, and a $10 off discount on $20+ in purchases of Pepsi products at the Boxed website. These two are first time offers, so I do not know if the limit is per line or per account. This distinction is important if you have multiple lines per account 🙂

December 18, 2016 Filed Under: shopping Tagged With: , ,

FREE 711 Big Gulp with first Amazon Locker Order pick-up

One flying under the radar Amazon feature is the Locker Delivery option. Instead of having the package delivered to your home or office address, you send it to an Amazon Locker location. This includes select 711 stores, and other places, like select Safeway stores. The participating stores install Amazon’s locker boxes. So you don’t have to worry about being at home to get the order, or worry about unattended packages getting stolen. With Amazon’s own delivery drives being green and confused and stressed out, this is a good way to prevent delivery confusion 🙂

Once sent there, you have three business days to pick them up, so be sure you are going to be in-town and it’s somewhere you can walk if your car is at the shop. And things of that nature.

Anyway, to cut a long story short, when you receive an Amazon email that your order was delivered to a local 711 store, you will also see a short paragraph with an offer, you get a FREE 711 Big Gulp with your first order picked up there. You click through the Amazon link which takes you to a 711 website, and you receive the coupon via SMS (the only option even if you open the email with a web browser on a desktop computer).

December 18, 2016 Filed Under: shopping Tagged With: ,

T-Mobile Freebies for December 13 headlined by FandangoNow rental and Wendy’s Frosty

The freebies for Tuesday December 13 in 2016 for T-Mobile customers, as part of the “T-Mobile Tuesdays” weekly promotions are split evenly. Two actual freebies and two coupons. The freebies are returning offers, a free FandangoNOW digital movie rental (this is the former M-Go service, not to be confused with the more well-known Fandango movie serivce) and the good old Wendy’s small frosty.

The other two are coupons. We keep it real here, we are calling a spade a spade 🙂 You get 25c off per gallon at Shell gas stations, and the other coupon is $10 off at SpaWeek.com.

December 11, 2016 Filed Under: shopping Tagged With: , ,

[EXPIRED] Lucky Rewards members: Free 10oz LaLlave Espresso tin can (ends 12/13/16)

This weekly freebie ended, but I believe this is the second time they offered this, so it may return at some point in the future…

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December 10, 2016 Filed Under: foods Tagged With: , , ,

T-Mobile Tuesdays for December 6: Red Robin appetizer, Inkly Greeting Card, Grommet coupon

It’s appetizers and cards and coupons at the T-Mobile Tuesdays for December 6 in 2016. A trio of offers are teased ahead of time, headlined by an appetizer at Red Robin. This is not available for take-out, so you have to stay there, and there is a limit of one appetizer per table. This restrictions could backfire through if everyone shows up and orders an appetizer and water and each member of the party sits at a different table 🙂

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Next up, it’s a free Inkly greeting card, you can scout it ahead of time by checking out their website. Likewise with the “The Grommet” coupon, it’s $12 off your order over there.

So none of the returning champions this week (no Wendy’s, no digital movie).

December 4, 2016 Filed Under: foods Tagged With: , ,