It seems that the Coinstar machines are starting to offer Amazon.com giftcards, among other stores, in exchange for your change. If you choose a giftcard, Coinstar won’t charge their usual 8.9%! Now, if they’d just start offering this service here in Denver…
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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2 Replies to “Books for your pennies”
They have the service at Albertson’s grocery store. Your change jars are a little heavy, but I notice the Coinstar here does Starbucks, too….
Yeah, I saw that. I just figured it wasn’t worth packing 25lbs worth of change for the plane flight.
They have the service at Albertson’s grocery store. Your change jars are a little heavy, but I notice the Coinstar here does Starbucks, too….
Yeah, I saw that. I just figured it wasn’t worth packing 25lbs worth of change for the plane flight.