Love Reading, but can't afford them? Then Library Thing is the place for you!

Over at Library Thing  Early Reviewers: Free advance copies of books

In todays economy it can be very hard to feed my book addiction, so when an Aaron Lazar, (author of LeGarde Mysteries) aplazar  told me about Library Thing I was instantly hooked. I signed up and have a wonderful catalogue of all my books, including books that I have won here at Gather; are now entered into my Library.  It is a wonderful way to keep track of my book collection, chat with Book Authors and catch up on the latest releases.  They also hold the occassional contest for writing reviews.  ( I won an upgraded membership last year which is awesome.)

Want to see some of my latest reviews, then become a member of my gather group: April's Book Reviews aprilsbkreviews.gather.com where you can also discover the most popular books of the hour and browse an RSS feed  of my Library Thing reviews.

 What is Early Reviewers? Publishers give away advance copies of books all the time, and Library thing gives them away . If you sign up you can get books for free and before everyone else, and you have a wide audience for your review.

 They also encourage you to post the same review to other sites like here at gather or Amazon.com

Who is eligible? How can you get free books?

You have to have a LibraryThing membership--which is free--to apply for books. No purchase is necessary.

To enter, complete the registration form at http://www.librarything.com/er/signup and indicate interest in one or more books at http://www.librarything.com/er/list.

You can apply for as many books as you'd like, but you can only apply for each book once.

You may apply any time between when a book appears on the Early Reviewers page, until 6pm EST on the date listed under "Request by" for that book.

To get books: Click "Request it!" next to the books you're interested in. At the end of the giveaway period, you will receive a comment on your profile page letting you know whether you've won a book or not.

Eligibility: Publishers do things country-by-country. Books in this batch are open to residents of the US, Canada, the UK, Israel, Australia, France, Germany, Argentina, Brazil and Spain. Check the flags  to see which countries the book you want is available in.

Deadline: Requests for the March Bonus batch must be in by Friday, April 3rd at 6pm EST.