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Another tool to help you not buy books from Amazon

There are more than a few good reasons to not buy books from Amazon.com. That said, Amazon’s site is still one of the best ways to research books before you buy them. So this is my suggestion: go to Amazon to do your research, then use the convenient bookmarklet I’ve created below to get yourself over to the site of a local bookstore, where you can make the final purchase. I’ve chosen Harvard Book Store to redirect to, but this bookmarklet can be easily modified to redirect to any other bookstore that uses the booksite.com service. [Hint: in the bookmarklet, replace 1624 with the id for the bookstore of your choice.] The more ambitious in the audience might consider creating a version of this that works for IndieBound.

Instructions: Drag the link at the end of this post to the toolbar in your browser. When you are on a book detail page at Amazon.com (for instance), just click the link to be sent over to the Harvard Book Store page for the same book, where you can buy it (and even have it delivered by some hippy on a bike). Easy as pie.

Amz.com => HBS

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