Deals: 20% Off BooksFree Membership

Hey!  Stop looking at the naked kid reading, you pedophile!  I put it there because, you know, this post is about reading, not for you to gawk at!

BooksFree is pretty much Netflix for books and audiobooks: you sign up for a plan and they ship you set number of books or CDs.  As you send them back, more are sent to you.

Why post about it on a travel blog?  Well, other than the fact that I am also reading naked on a toilet seat right now, it's also good for getting your hands on a lot of audiobooks.  Have BooksFree send you a dozen or so, rip them all to MP3, and you have something to keep you sane on the TransSiberian Railway (AKA sounds more fun than it actually is) or any other mind-numbingly long jaunt.

And since I don't believe in paying full price for anything, here's a coupon code for 20% off your membership:

20% off your membership at Booksfree.com. Use coupon code: CJ86

Deals: $20 off o2 Gear Shop

o2 is a pretty sweet gear shop that I've purchased from in the past.  They currently have a deal for $20 off all orders of $100 or more.  For all you non-math people, that's a million percent off or something.  As you can tell, I am also a non-math person. 

Here's the link:

Save $20 on All Orders of $100 at o2 Gear Shop Use Code: "GETDOWN"

How to: Turn Your Travel Pics into Photo Books

A friend recently showed me travel photos from a trip to South America.  But instead of pulling them up on her laptop like I like to do, she took out a leather-bound book and opened it.

Since then, I've been wanting to make a photobook of my own, containing my best travel pics.

Since I spent some time searching for discounts (because that's what I do), I thought I'd do everyone else a favor and put all the current coupons for photo books into one spot:

1. Photoworks.com

Free shipping with coupon: MYFIRSTORDER

2. StorePhotos.com

Save 5% on your entire order with coupon: SCRAP

3.  Pixable.com

Save 25% on all hard cover photo books with coupon: 25HCPB

4.  Kolo.com

Free ground shipping with every order of $100 or more

5.  Mixbook.com  

Free shipping on orders over $30

6.  OurHubbub.com

Save 20% on any order with coupon: DADSGIFT

Deals: 15% off Frommer's Products

It worked!  If we were to compare travel guides to types of women, Frommer's would be the Old Money Princess and Lonely Planet would be the book that everybody's had. 

Since I kept posting so many Lonely Planet Discounts, it finally made Frommer's jealous and now she's mine! 

Which means I found a discount for 15% off their products.  They are best known for their travel guide books, but they also do vacation packages as well.

When you click on link, it will take you to their homepage, and when you go to checkout, a 15% discount will automatically be applied.

Click Here for 15% off Frommer's Products

Deals: Free Audiobook From Audible

Audible.com currently has an offer for a free audio book of your choice.  Could be just the thing to shorten a long bus ride or plane flight.  And I mean that literally by the way, because I know you would choose to listen to "The Anarchist's Cookbook" while hugging a bag of fertilizer.

The catch is that you have to sign up for a 14-day free trial to get the free audio book, but you're smart enough to just get your book and then cancel the trial.  Right?  Right?

Well, I guess it won't matter since you're blowing yourself up anyway, leaving your Audible debt to your relatives.

Selfish.

Click Here to Get your Free Book.

Deals: 10% off Coupon for Wickers Sportswear

Wickers, which I mention in this post about cold weather gear, makes clothes that wick sweat off your body, keeping you dry in hot and cold weather.  It's not as good as outsourcing your wicking to a Cambodian boy who towels you down with his loin cloth whenever he sees sweat appear, but from experience I can say it's a close second.

I currently use their soft silk long sleeve crew neck as a base layer when I travel, and wish I had found this coupon six months ago: 10% off your purchase with code WEAR10.

Deals: Free Shipping and 25% Off "Tell Me More" Language Learning Software

Tell Me More is currently having a 25% off sale and are tossing in free shipping to boot.

Although it doesn't have the advertising mojo and mall kiosks of Rosetta Stone, Tell Me More is Language Learning software that has something else going for it: it's used by a number of universities as well as the U.S. State Department and the FBI.

Might be something to it.  Unfortunately it's useless to me as I already know every language ever created, including one that I'm making up right now: foifi gerun blat!

Deals: Coupon for 20% off the FuelTank

Almost everyone and their mother (including my mother) has either a smart phone or an MP3 player these days, and it's hard to find a hostel that doesn't have half a dozen flashpackers bobbing their heads with their earbuds in.

Although I stopped taking my iPod on trips once I got my netbook, one of the biggest problems I remember was that I could only play one two hour movie before the battery was dead.  For an 8 hour bus trip where all the windows are drawn, chicken feathers are floating in the air and the karaoke is blaring, that's six hours too short.  I'd have brought along extra batteries except, well, Apple doesn't let you replace the battery.

So I'm assuming that's why Callpod came up with the FuelTank Uno Essentially it's an extra battery that plugs into an iPod or any one of "3,000+ devices" according to its website, but it happens to be a battery with four times the capacity of a normal battery, even though it only weights four ounces.  Technically, it'd even get me through a 10 hour bus ride.

If that sounds like it's for you, then now might be the time to get it, because Callpod is currently selling them for 20% off.  Use coupon LS2010.

Bow Chika-Wow-Wow: 20% Off Match.com and Two Free Weeks at Chemistry.com

Where once finding love was a matter of being the best plower in the village (um...), now we have to do new-fangled things like go online and add women to our shopping carts before checking out and waiting for UPS to deliver.  I'm all for online break-ups, so I suppose I have to be for online dating, too.

What does this have to do with travel?  Not a damn thing!  But I did meet my girlfriend through Match.com and Chemistry.com is part of the same company, so when I saw these deals, I thought it'd be worth posting for your lonely travel-bleeding ass!

Coupons:

1.  20% off Match.com 

2.  Two free weeks at Chemistry.com

Go forth and conquer, clicker!

Deals: 30% off Lonely Planet Pick and Mix Chapters!

When I first started traveling, I voiced several times my wish that I could just buy only the sections of a guidebook that I needed instead of lugging the whole thing around.  It was suggested that I just razor out the parts I wouldn't need.  To me, though, cutting up a book felt sacrilegious.

And then the Lonely Planet gods (hey, I do hear people referring to their Lonely Planet as their "bible") answered my prayers with their "Pick and Mix Chapters".

Basically, you choose the chapters you want, pay and download the PDF files of that chapter.

At this point, lazy people just print the whole chapter.  My advice is to read through it and only print the pages you need.  For example, I never need the restaurant and accommodations pages because I usually book a hostel through HostelBookers by looking at the ratings and then eat at what every is in the area of the hostel, or whatever happens to be around when I get hungry.

By only printing the pages you need, you save a lot of weight (and can throw away pages on the road as you go from city to city).  I would say that this also saves trees, but I am guilty of photocopying the printed pages so that they are double sided, thereby cutting the amount of pages I have to carry in half.

Oh, and now that I am done expounding on guidebooks, how about I get around to the deal: 30% off Lonely Planet Pick&Mix Chapters!

Click Here: To Save 30% off Lonely Planet Pick and Mix Chapters

Deals: 11% off Your Purchase at All-Batteries.com

Ah, batteries.  Always need 'em, whether it's for my digital camera, netbook or Real Doll.  Nah, just kidding.  Real Dolls don't use batteries!  They plug into the wall, just like a real woman! 

And yes, the picture to the right really is a sex doll.

Anyway.

It just so happens that All-Battery.com currently has a special going:

11% off your purchase from All-Battery.com  Use Code: Battery2008

So if you've been debating over whether to pick up a spare battery for whatever electronic toy your flashpacking self is taking with you on your next trip, now'd be the time to man up and buy yourself a Real Doll.  Wait!  I mean...

Nevermind.

Deals: 10% off Lonely Planet Products

Here is a 10% off discount code for Lonely Planet Products:

Coupon Code: CJCOUPON10

Hint: Don't buy their books.  Download what you need from their Pick 'n Mix Chapters and only print up the pages that you need from the PDFs you download.  You'll save weight and space in your bag and you can throw away chapters as you visit cities, meaning you'll decrease your weight as you go.

Click Here: Save 10% off your next purchase at Lonely Planet! Use coupon code: CJCOUPON10

Deals: Discount Codes for WorldTraveler.com

Couple of discount codes I found for WorldTraveler.com

1. $10 off an order of $150.00 or more at WorldTraveler
Use coupon code AF0501 at checkout.

2.  10% off and Free Shipping on a $100 or more order of Luggage or Briefs
Use Code CJ10 at checkout

Briefs means Briefcases and not underwear.  Buy the way, if it did mean underwear and you did buy $100 worth of it, I'd ban you from my site.  No person ever needs either A) that much underwear or B) underwear that expensive.

Unless we're talking lingerie, in which case I'll unban you if you model it for me.  Ladies?

3.  WorldTraveler's Closeout and Discount Page (So You can Look for More Deals)