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REALLY excited about this product and I can’t wait to get one! Oprah says it has changed her life! How cool is that. This gaget is a combination device for reading books and blogs wirelessly with a high resolution display that looks and reads like real paper. New York Times Best Sellers and New Releases are $9.99, unless marked otherwise. You can shop for titles from anywhere and download a book in less than a minute. No PC is required to download titles and use this product!

Best part is there are no monthly charges and the device will hold over 200 titles. It is about the size of a paperback book and is very lightweight.

Click the image to view the full specs or to watch the video. Also over 5,000 user reviews at Amazon. Included in the box: Kindle wireless reader, Book cover, Power adapter, USB 2.0 cable.

Use promo code OPRAHWINFREY at checkout and get $50 off through November 1st at 11:59PM PST. As of this posting this item qualifies for Free Super Saver Shipping from Amazon.

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal noted that as we grow older our feet tend to expand and change shape. This applies to both men and women and these changes often begin in our 50’s. Apparently arches can flatten and tendons and ligaments can weaken. No doubt that is why comfort shoes seem to be more and more popular as the baby boomer population ages.

This is from the Slick Deals forum:

RSVP shoes on sale for $9.95 at 6pm.com ($6.95 flat shipping or free w/ $100 purchase)
Go to 6pm.com and search for RSVP. All of the RSVP brand shoes are on sale for $9.95. Please note that when searching, the prices don’t always show as $9.95, but if you click on the shoe and go to the individual page it shows as $9.95 (down from prices ranging $50-$220).

There are way too many for me to pick out individual ones that are good deals. As of right now there is a very big selection in styles, colors, and sizes. For guys, there are boots, dress shoes, casual shoes. For ladies, there are boots, high heels, flat shoes, etc.

Shipping is a flat $6.95 or free with an order > $100.

Hopefully I didn’t miss any details.

We were researching the numerous benefits of green tea and were brought to the subject of antioxidants, which green teas are rich in. Then, kind of in a roundabout way we ran across an interesting product called Protandim.

From what we can tell this product does not contain antioxidants but instead triggers the body to produce more of its own two antioxidant enzymes which helps prevent free radical damage to your cells. Protandim claims to do this thousands of times more effectively than any conventional antioxidant therapy.

The product has been featured on ABC PrimeTime Live, NBC Today Show, and the PBS series “Healing Quest”. Video clips of the segments are available on the company website.

Protandim is clinically proven to slow down the cell aging process to the level of a 20 year old. Learn more at Protandim.com.

The also offer a Free Trial if you are a new customer and enroll in the auto-ship program. Looks like you only pay shipping and they give a customer service phone number to cancel if you choose to.

We just got back from a trip to northern Wisconsin last weekend and as I was sorting the bills in my wallet I came across a dollar that was stamped: Track this bill at www.WheresGeorge.com It wasn’t hyperlinked but you get the idea.

Anyhow, I have a step-son named George who is very Web savvy and who has been on the road for sometime. Because we don’t know where George is right now I typed in the Web address on the extremely slight chance that “our” George put up the site. Well, he didn’t and the “George” in the URL refers to George Washington but what a cool site. I entered the serial number of my dollar bill “L83242103A” and the series “2006″ and a Bill Tracking Report appeared showing me that the bill has most recently traveled from Brooklyn, NY. What does this have to do with shoes? Not a whole lot but it just seemed like a fun site.

This is from Katherine at Deckers … I have some great news to share with you all that I’m personally super excited about! So, as you know, we (Deckers Outdoor Corporation) own three great shoe brands that have experienced tremendous growth.

Well, I am very excited to let you know we now have a fourth brand to add to the family! Deckers Flip Flops are back!

Deckers Flip Flops were born in the early 70s and were all the rage in surf shops up and down the southern California coast. Deckers flips went away as the company focused on its then-partnership with Teva. After a 14-year long siesta, and a LOT of customers asking for these, we’ve decided to bring these back as an online-only brand with free shipping, free return shipping, a 100% lifetime guarantee and, if you owned a pair from back in the day, you can send them in for a brand new pair. Check out the site to learn more about these amazing flip flops.

An interesting article was just published in The Wall Street Journal Online titled “Pain at the Other Pump: Shoe Prices Rise” by Rachel Dodes and Ray A. Smith. Apparently shoe prices in the United States have been declining over the past decade due to the huge manufacturing shift to China where about 85% of the shoes sold in the U.S. are now made

Anyhow, that’s about to change because of higher costs in China as well as higher (shipping) fuel costs as well as the weak U.S. dollar.

According to the article, Brown Shoe Company, Inc. which owns our partner Shoes.com as well as brands such as Via Spiga, Franco Sarto, and Naturalizer plans a fall increase of between 5% to 12%. We assume those increases are brand specific as the article did not discuss pricing at Shoes.com which carries hundreds of brands not associated with Brown Shoe; however, don’t be surprised though to see higher prices on most brands at all of the major retail outlets.

As a side note, we do have to mention that Brown Shoe Company is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri (along with Shoes.com) and does maintain a design center in Florence, Italy where Via Spiga design work is performed. Franco Sarto is an Italian born designer who hand sketches many of his designs. Many Franco Sarto styles are manfactured in Brazil. Franco Sarto the designer does not reside in China.