Ink Node is made of great art. However, Ink Node is also made of roughly twenty thousand lines of programming code that lives on a web hosting server in Tacoma, Washington with a monthly hosting charge (alackaday!). A donation will help us get in the black, after triumphantly vanquishing the hosting charges of yore, and will help us secure our immediate future against the hosting charges to come — we have every reason to believe, monthly.

There’s also another exciting way that your donation will help: if Ink Node can raise enough bullion and/or doubloons — $900 to be exact — then it can do something rather transformative, for at least the next year anyway, which in computer jargon is “move from a shared hosting environment to a virtual server environment,” but which for you, and for Ink Node, means:

(1) The ability to upload author photos (of yourself!) and book photos (of your books!).

(2) The ability to see the “Most Read”, “Top Rated” and such categories, not only of “All Time” but also of “This Month”, “This Week” and so on.

(3) The ability, and we’re pretty happy about this one, to see either a weekly email or a screen upon login, which gives totally personalized and custom-tailored reading recommendations for YOU, based on what you’ve read in the past and how you’ve liked it.

(4) Considerable improvements in general speed and spryness, all around.

So please do consider a donation, small or large. It will ensure not only INSTANT KARMA, but the pleasures of literary delight for a long time to come.

- Your Friendly Neighborhood Ink Node