Well, we're already up to Day 3, so I'm a little late in finding/posting this, but I figured I'd post it anyway.
Google books is having a contest/game for the next ~week called 10 Days in Google Books.
It's basically a search and find trivia contest that takes you through the Google Books site and has you answer various questions about some of the books they host there. At the end, you get to submit a "brief creative entry on the topic of books" and the top 3 entries each day win a Sony reader. Not sure on the judging criteria for the winners, but it's kind of fun to explore Google Books anyway.
I really like the idea of having such a large virtual library online and accessible to everybody. They have a great selection. I'm not a huge fan of reading books electronically (I've tried a handful of e-readers), but for research and reference books, it's great. It's also nice to have the option, especially for some of those hard to find books that you might never get a chance to read otherwise.
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About Me
- Okie
- Husband, Father of 3, Reader, Writer, Student, Employee in Corporate America.
Books Read in 2012
Books Read in 2011
- The Star Shard
- The Shakespeare Thefts
- Peter and the Starcatchers
- The Maltese Falcon
- Flygirl
- Batman: The Killing Joke
- Jacob T. Marley
- Doc: A Novel
- The Man in the Iron Mask
- The Throne of Fire
- The Death Cure
- The Good Earth
- Rise of the Darklings
- The Ruins of Gorlan
- Stranger in a Strange Land
- The Orphan of Awkward Falls
- The Invention of Hugo Cabret
- A Room With A View
- The Gypsy Morph
- Casino Royale
- The Red Pyramid
- Kingdom Keepers: Disney After Dark
- Oliver Twist
- The Lost Hero
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles
- Tuck Everlasting
- The Scorch Trials
- Crucial Conversations
- The Tale of Desperaux
- The Name of the Rose
- Matched
- The Elves of Cintra
- The Learning eXPLOSION
- A Lion Among Men
Books Read in 2010
- The Graveyard Book
- The Last Olympian
- The War of the Worlds
- The Maze Runner
- The Lord of the Flies
- The Dain Curse
- Fablehaven
- The Turn of the Screw
- Dracula
- A Charmed Life: Growing Up in Macbeth's Castle
- The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch
- Foucault's Pendulum
- Chains
- The Battle of the Labyrinth
- The Search for Delicious
- The Holy Man
- Mockingjay
- The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
- Those Extraordinary Twins
- The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
- Beyond the Grave
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- The Sword Thief
- The Amulet of Samarkand
- The Great Divorce
- The Titan's Curse
- The Black Unicorn
- One False Note
- Magic Kingdom for Sale | Sold
- The Four Loves
- Catching Fire
- A Monstrous Regiment of Women
- Soulless
- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
- Right Ho Jeeves
- The Maze of Bones
- A Tale of Two Cities
- The Hourglass Door
- The Sorrows of Young Werther
- The Drug of the New Millennium
- Archenemy
- Great Work Great Career
- Sea of Monsters
- The Hunger Games
Books Read in '09
- Beloved
- Holes
- The Tales of Beedle the Bard
- Jesus Without Religion
- The Water Babies
- Coraline
- Erewhon
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- The Elusive Pimpernel
- The Island of Doctor Moreau
- The People of Sparks
- Heart of Darkness
- Watchmen
- Tarzan of the Apes
- The Lightning Thief
- Angels & Demons
- Rapunzel's Revenge
- Son of a Witch
- Prince of Persia
- Austenland
- BUtterfield 8
- Chickens in the Headlights
- Bullies in the Headlights
- The Beekeeper's Apprentice
- Pillage
- The Mysterious Benedict Society
- Babbitt
- Frankenstein
- Red Harvest
- The Public and Its Problems
- Fables: Volume 1
- The Great Gatsby
- Captain Blood
- Coming of Age in Samoa
- Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey
- The Sun Also Rises
- Fantastic Mr Fox
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
- But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes
- The 7 Habits of Happy Kids
- The Big Money
- The Scopes Trial
- The Charlemagne Pursuit