August 24, 2008

• Free books

  I’ve talked about the fact that I adore LibraryThing before – and I do adore it just for itself – but as an extra special bonus, they have something called the Early Reviewers program, which boils down to publishers sending people free books.

  Every month, a bunch of publishers pledge as many books as they want. People then request ones that they’re interested in, and LibraryThing magically chooses who gets what based on things like whether you’ve written reviews for books you’ve gotten before, what books are listed on your account, how many books you’ve already gotten, etc. Sometimes there’s a 2nd round in a month, but it’s usually only a few books.

  For July, I got a book from both the regular round and the bonus round! It took about a month from hearing that I’d won for the books to arrive. (The publishers ship the books directly.) I’ve read and reviewed both now (short form – really liked them both!)
  The Lemur by Benjamin Black
  The Whiskey Rebels by David Liss

  Any LibraryThing member can join the Early Reviewers program – you don’t have to be paid. (I paid up because I wanted to be able to import more than 200 books at a time from the various other places I had kept track over the last 5 yrs.)

  Who doesn’t like free books?

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