So the other weekend I cashed in all my loose change.  I had three coffee containers full - which ended up working out to be a little over $300!  I used a coin sorting machine that gave me an Amazon gift certificate, and that’s now led to the following:

That’s 17 books so I think I’m good from now to the end of the year (if only because I’ll be trying to figure out how any publisher can make money when I can get this many books delivered to me via UPS for so little).

In case you’re looking for a book to read, here’s what’s on the list (from top to bottom):

The Soul of a New Machine - Tracy Kidder

Divided Kingdom - Rupert Thomson

No Longer Human - Osamu Dazai

Life and Fate - Vassily Grossman

Perdido Street Station - China Mieville

Demonic Males - Wrangham & Peterson

All God’s Children - Fox Butterfield

Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases - Kahneman, Slovic & Tversky

The Machine that Changed the World - Womack, Jones & Roos

Empires of Light - Jill Jonnes

The Rings of Saturn - W.G. Sebald

RESTful Web Services  -  Richardson & Ruby

The Forever War - Dexter Filkins

Right Hand Left Hand - Chris McManus

The Box - Marc Levinson

Empire City - Jackson & Dunbar

On a related note, this shopping experience completely confirmed why Amazon is the platform for buying things.  Every single one of these books was part of my wishlist (some for a few years).  Amazon never asked me to update my wishlist, rather just kept it there for the day when I was finally ready.

Also, now that I’ve bought the books they don’t appear in my wishlist and if I go to the page for any of the books there’s a gentle reminder that I’ve already bought it:

If that’s not the ultimate retail experience, then I don’t know what is.