When I first bought a Kindle with ads the ads were usable things like $10 off on $20 purchase and lots of $1 books. Now the ads are almost exclusively for local crap I could care less about. And by local I mean usually 20+ miles away from where I live. And by crap I mean deals at stores I have never heard of and will never shop at and for things I would never buy. I wish Amazon would bring back the Amazon.com special offers and stop wasting my time with local offers.