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You helped me spend $150 on books! Two comments

1. I regret you earned $0 for helping me spending so much on books. Have you considered setting up affiliate links or a donation button? Maybe affiliate links as a service will be your next project.

2. The Amazon links are for Amazon.com, but I'm in Canada. Maybe easy internationalized Amazon affiliate links will be your next project.

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For #2, there are services OP could use, that will automatically switch links to the right country store, e.g. https://geniuslink.com/how-it-works/for-affiliates

   You helped me spend $150 on books!

Check your local Library. Depending on where you are, it could be a fantastic resource for books.

After reading such comments here on HN, last month I got myself a local library card and it has turned out to be a great decision! I am using Libby app to get digital books and even audiobooks! Absolutely fantastic

The Libby app has also made some great usability improvements lately for people who have multiple library cards. If you live in an area with multiple library systems (like city and county), it's totally worth signing up for both.

Thanks! I will check out

Thanks for mentioning Libby. Just installed and spent 3h on it. I had no idea local libraries could be this convenient

In addition to Libby, there is also Hoopla and Kanopy. Hoopla is pretty similar with ebooks and audio books, while Kanopy is mostly video

Thanks, downloaded both the apps!

Unless you're in the UK, where a lot of local libraries have shut down, unfortunately :(

Or just order used books from thriftbooks.com. It’s the only place I buy books for the last few years now. Cheapest prices (almost) always, but even if they’re not quite the cheapest for a particular title, the free shipping on any order over $10 always puts it over the top.

Note also that addall.com used book search doesn’t include thriftbooks in the results, so I just always go straight to thriftbooks and don’t bother searching addall.com anymore..

No affiliation, just a longtime happy customer.

I regret that so many people regret that other people are not monetizing.

You know what, if commenter OP finds value in the services offered; and wishes to compensate the author of the software - just gonna say - I have no problem with that.

You might not have a problem with that, but some of us dislike knowing that monetizatization has to become omnipresent, as it changes everything.

Affiliate programs are the most anti-big corp monetization strategy ever.

Considering I already buy books on Amazon, if there's anyway I can just find an affiliate (any affiliate), Amazon gets 5.5% less revenue.

For tracyhenry, they would get ~$8.25 CAD straight out of Amazon's pocket for my $150 purchase.

https://associates.amazon.ca/help/node/topic/GRXPHT8U84RAYDX...

except it becomes much harder to find genuine recommendations for things on the web.

You can use Pi-holes' monetization link.

(edit) just scroll down that page: https://pi-hole.net/donate/#sponsorship

Amazon would get even less revenue if you bought your books somewhere else, like https://bookshop.org/ or directly from an independent book store.

A Patreon/crypto address to make a donation to is the compromise here, surely.

How do you pay your bills?

People should get paid for work.

Whether that work is having a job. Or making a website.

I don't see the difference...

Someone who does useful work deserves wages.

I regret that some people seem to think that any sort of compensation for services rendered or monetization in any way is automatically bad or wrong somehow.

I regret having read this entire comment chain.

I regret that you did not get compensated for your lost time.

Agree.

People should get paid for work.

Whether that work is having a job. Or making a website.

Someone who does useful work deserves wages.

Even 2,000 years ago the Bible said: "the worker deserves his wages."

Most of the people who are again monetization are perfectly happy to get paid by their employer.

Is direct employment the only morally upright way to receive payment for hard work?

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