It’s time for another giveaway: choose your book!
update: this drawing has ended
Remember the Paperback Swap giveaway? We did this once before and it was a lot of fun, so I’m ready to do it again. I learned of some great books that I had never heard of when you all posted your choices, and I’ve received many of them from PBS since then.
I’ll also confess that we got loads of free books for referring all the people who decided to join Paperback Swap and we’re low on credits. Must…have…books!
According to PBS, we’ve received 144 free paperbacks and hardbacks of our choice so far, including:
- Before and After Graphics for Business for our budding graphic designer (a $50 book we had been wanting for a long time!)
- Animals do the Strangest Things, a title in a favorite series of ours
- many by
- Abigail Adams : Girl of Colonial Days and other titles from another favorite series, Childhood of Famous Americans
- most of the Redwall series by
- Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
- Calligraphy Alphabets Made Easy
- The Calvin and Hobbes Lazy Sunday Book
- Equiano’s Travels (African Writers Series) - highly recommended, though I wish I had requested an unabridged copy.
…and many, many more! We are also on the waiting list for 200 different titles. When we reach the front of the line for a particular wishlist title and it becomes available, PBS will email us and hold the book for us for up to 48 hours. It's a great system and we've received many books from our wishlist already!
I’m going to be lazy efficient and copy the instructions from the old drawing:
We get more free books for referring new members, so we’re going to pull a little publicity stunt.
TO ENTER: Go to the Paperback Swap website and browse 1.8 million books, then come back and leave a comment telling me what book you would choose if you won. If you like what you see, why don’t you join and list 10 books? New members get 2 free books of your choice from PBS right away!
We’ll choose a winner from among all the comments and the winner will receive the book of her choice, absolutely free, delivered right to her doorstep. That’s the way Paperback Swap works, and we want you to have a little taste of what members enjoy all the time. Then you’ll want to join and we’ll get free credits for referring you, and hubby can keep ordering new books to his heart’s content while I try to find room for them on the bookshelves.
Watch my family blog, Life in a Shoe, for a chance enter again!
the small print:
- Please be sure to choose from Available Books, not Wish List books. This should be easy since Available Books is the default choice. Otherwise your title of choice might not be available if you win.
- Winner must have a mailing address in the U.S.
- If you win and your choice is not available for some reason, I will email and ask you to choose another title.
- If you win, please email me promptly when you receive your book so I can mark it received on the PBS site.
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47 Responses to “It’s time for another giveaway: choose your book!”
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:06 pm
Wow, fantastic giveaway! Thank you so much for even having a giveaway like this. The book I would choose if I won would be Dan Brown’s Angels & Demons!
July 23rd, 2008 at 3:45 pm
This sounds fun! I would love Jane Austen’s Persuasion!
July 23rd, 2008 at 5:23 pm
If I win, I would like Martha Stewar’s Baking Handbook. I joined PBS and put you down as my reference.
July 23rd, 2008 at 6:31 pm
What a fun contest!
I would choose this book: The New Rabbit Handbook: Everything About Purchase, Care, Nutrition, Breeding, and Behavior
by Lucia E. Parent, Lucia Vriends-Parent, Matthew M. Vriends
Thank you!
July 23rd, 2008 at 6:37 pm
Such a nifty idea! Likewise, I put you as my reference on PBS.
Hm, I’d choose Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen.
July 24th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
If I win I’d like to get Irvin Yalom’s Love’s Executioner.
Thanks for hosting the contest.
July 24th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
If I won, I’d like The Fussy Baby Book : Parenting Your High-Need Child From Birth to Age Five by Dr. Sears.
We really need this one!
July 24th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Hello! I would love to win the book “Bygones: Sommerfield Trilogy!” Please enter my name in your drawing. Thanks, Cindi
July 24th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
Our home library needs “The House at Pooh Corner.”
July 24th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
Wuthering Heights, I was supposed to read it my senior year of high school.
July 25th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
I would choose :
How to Decorate: The Best of Martha Stewart Living (Best of Martha Stewart Living)
Good Things for Organizing
This is a great idea. I will be signing up and using you as a reference.
Thanks,
Angela
July 25th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
This sounds fun! I would love Jane Austen’s Persuasion!
July 25th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
I’d get the first book in the Chronicles of Narnia series. I’ve been itching to read the first one to see if I’d like to read the whole series. Thanks so much for the opportunity.
July 26th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
I would like The Promise of God’s Power by Jim Cymbala.
July 26th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
I love PBS! I’m torn between The Creation: A Poem
by James Weldon Johnson, Creation by Helen Haidle, and Noah by Patricia Lee Gauch.
July 28th, 2008 at 9:15 am
Wow, so many books to choose from it’s hard to narrow it down to just one…but I think I would really enjoy reading this book to my son Evan Pangburn. The book is called Because I Love You
by Max Lucado
Thanks so much,
Evan Pangburn
http://www.evanpangburn.com
July 28th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
please enter me! i’d choose Mean Season by Heather Cochran
July 28th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
I would love Lori Wick’s A Song For Silas.
Thanks for the giveaway.
July 28th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
another book I’d like is Anne of Green Gables. Thanks!
July 28th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
The Fussy Baby Book : Parenting Your High-Need Child From Birth to Age Five by Dr. Sears
July 28th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
i would liek the james harriet book
ANIMALS DO TEH STRANGEST THINGS
July 28th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
i love PBS. i’d love a new book that my friend keeps telling me about (but i can’t remember the name…i could get it from her quick though)
July 28th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
Thanks for the giveaway I would choose Copy Cat by Erica Spindler
July 28th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
I would love to get Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner.
July 29th, 2008 at 4:45 am
I would love the book The Mozart Season, the one that was Published on 4/1/2000. Thanks.
July 29th, 2008 at 5:02 am
I would pick Directed Verdict by Randy Singer.
July 29th, 2008 at 5:49 am
The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate is the book I would choose. My fiance and I are getting married in 10 days and I hear that every couple should read this
July 29th, 2008 at 11:24 am
One I’ve been eying for a while is Hip to Be Square by Hope Lyda. I am a PBS member and have so many books at home…but who can resist a free one!
My giveaway this week is for 5 paperbackswap credits, check it out and please enter!
July 29th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
I would choose Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola.
July 29th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
I’d like the first Felicity book from the American girl series for my daughter.
July 29th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
I would get Taken by the Night by Kathryn Smith.
I’ve read the other books in the series and would love to read this one also. Thanks for the great giveaway!
July 29th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
I’d like Office Yoga: Simple Stretches for Busy People by Darrin Zeer.
July 29th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
I would choose mind fast soul feast by michael beckwith
Great giveaway! I hope i’m the lucky winner
July 29th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
I would pick Step on a Crack – James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge. Thanks!
July 29th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
i’d choose meet kaya, from the american girls collection, for my sisters who are trying to collect all the books from the series. they have all mine but kit, kaya and julie didn’t come out til i was too old for the books! thanks!
sarah
sadiekate2001 (at) yahoo (dot) com
July 30th, 2008 at 4:42 am
Died in the Wool (knitting mystery) by Mary Kruger- thanks for the giveaway
July 30th, 2008 at 7:53 am
I would choose At Close of Day by Joseph Bentz.
July 30th, 2008 at 9:36 am
I would choose Dr. Green’s Baby Book
July 30th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Thanks!
Choices:
America’s Best Places to Retire
50 Fabulous Places to Retire in America
Thanks for the great contest!
Bella:)
July 30th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
The Rage of Echos by Simon Clark or any book by Simon Clark. Thanks for the giveaway
July 31st, 2008 at 12:53 am
I’ll pick the same one DH wants, The Dream Quest of Unknown Kaddath from HP Lovecraft. Thanks!
July 31st, 2008 at 5:02 pm
I would choose Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey. Thanks!
July 31st, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Thanks for having a giveaway. I would choose The Twenty-Four Days Before Christmas by Madeleine L’Engle.
August 1st, 2008 at 8:16 am
I’d like Animals do the Strangest things thanks for having it.
August 1st, 2008 at 11:20 am
I’d chose Renfield by Barbara Hambly
Great idea
August 2nd, 2008 at 7:33 pm
The winner has been chosen and was (or will be) announced here.
August 2nd, 2008 at 7:33 pm
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