Kindle with special offers

I have been using the Kindle for nearly 1.5 months and I have grown fond of it. I was a bit skeptical about this  since I always loved/liked the idea of  holding a book and reading it rather than some electronic gadget which stores all my books. I had to buy the Kindle at one point in time since it was clear that I wouldn't be able to carry them all back when I head back to India.

The part where it said "ads" in the initial launch made me wait for the reviews and judgements compared to the one without ads. Several YouTube videos reviews later , i opened my wallet to Amazon.

• The one interesting thing I started noticing about was that the offers which were displayed were not spam and were real deals in Amazon which has benefited me a lot.Yes , for the argumentative mind you are subduing yourself to buying more stuff from Amazon. Cycling through the ads for the day has become more of a habit these days with the good deals I saw in my Kindle.
• To name a few : $10 for $20 Gift Card in Amazon , $10 off on games in amazon (which worked on accessories as well) , buck a book ( though not the most impressive collection , you wouldn't go wrong with $1 : Water for elephants added :) ) , 25% on selected cameras ( bought a Nikon cool pix  for 62$ ) and so on. 

•  The ads doesn't show up when you read and it is only visible in the bottom most portion when you are in the home page or as a screensaver.

With the offers added , those $ 114 is worth the money spent.

Note : There is a whole thread in slickdeals forums on the offers from Kindle

BRINK DLC , Ohio State Fair

• The BRINK DLC is still not available in the US/UK for Xbox or PC . PS3 got some love yesterday when PSN users were reporting the DLC being available for download.Sony went ahead and made the content available yesterday , 2nd of Aug , which was consistent with the speculations which took roots considering Sony releases new contents on Tuesdays. I am not complaining. The DLC screenshots make for some good wallpapers. That is all what i have to say at this point :)
•  Ohio state fair opened up a week back and the concerts list looks awesome :
• Trace Adkins : Aug 3rd ( which is today)
•  Brad Paisley with Blake Shelton and Jerrod Niemann ( Aug 7) . Now I need to coax my friends to change the Saturday plans to one for Sunday :)
• Kingston & Sandisk 8GB flash Drives are going for around $8 in Amazon. The kingston one goes on and off with the free Super Saver shipping. 
• Update: They only have SS for the 11.99 Frustration free packaging one for the drive than then retail one.Funny how amazon is charging you $4 for changing the packaging.