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I'm just always curious when I see it - is the monetization of the links something done as an afterthought, to get some cash from a project you were working on anyway? Or was it the other way around, looking for some side income and then came up with the project?

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It was both. Started as a side toy to solve my own need, but the monetization potential got me to spend so much time building it.

how much money do you make as an amazon affiliate? i heard they can be pretty nasty about randomly taking you down for no reason

You get very little from book sales, but they also pay you for any other items the user checks out during the same session.

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