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Tuesday Thingers


Today’s question:

How do you get your books for reviewing? (Feel free to participate in the poll below, you can check more than one answer). Do you track them somehow (excel, database, etc), or just put them in a tbr (To Be Read, for anyone that doesn’t know) pile?

I get my books a variety of ways: through cold requests to publishers (most of the time I’m successful; some through Shelf Awareness; through Amazon Vine; and through the Library Thing Early Reviewers program (I’ve actually been quite successful with it). About half the books I read are ARCs, though I won’t request very much from the offers I get randomly through e-mail. It has to be a book I think I'll really like in order for me to request it. The other half of my reading material I get from buying (Amazon or Borders, mostly), though occasionally I go to the library. I track all my ARC requests through Google calendar, and I keep a TBR list on Library Thing.

Comments

Alyce said…
I don't usually request many books from random email offers either. I'm especially hesitant to accept books that are self-published.

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