January 1-December 31, 2011
Retroredux's Reviews is hosting her very first challenge, the Public Domain E-book Challenge. She writes:
I received a Nook about 6 months ago and I love it. My favorite thing is discovering new (to me) book offerings under the various sites that promote their organization's scanning and saving of these otherwise vanishing books once they hit the "public domain". All of these books are FREE-a bonus to a thrifty reader.
The one problem I saw was that many or even most of these books-there is little to no information of what they are about, or even reviews to let others know what they are about. But, that's part of the fun!
I feel it behooves us as the reading community to help these volunteers "save" these books-simply by giving them "press". Read them, review them, and by doing so, get the word out to other readers about these undiscovered gems.
The Rules:
1-Pick a level of participation for the year:
"newbie"level-read and review 3 public domain books (non bloggers will just post reviews inthe reviews comments page)
"advanced" level-read and review 6 public domain books (non bloggers will just post reviews in the reviews comments page)
That's about it-easy peasey:) You pick the book, genre, length, etc. Readers who don't own a e-reader are welcome as well (e-reader apps on phones, etc or just read on your PC). You can cross this over with other challenges as well.
