Book stuff
Mar. 12th, 2013 05:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skjamI have another review up at my blog http://www.skjam.com on "Where the Cherry Tree Grew", a book about George Washington's childhood home.
I got in one of those Goodreads giveaways I mention every so often.
I enjoy this, because I never know precisely which of the five-to-ten entries I've put in might pay off. I don't overdo; I only enter those giveaways where I think I can actually read the book and give it a fair review.
So I'm not sure how to react to a message I got recently offering a new app. It's designed to detect which giveaways are ending on a given day and autoenter all of them. It also tells you your odds of winning an individual giveaway or the aggregate based on how many people had entered when the program activates.
That seems like a cheat to me, and liable to get you books you wouldn't want to read, useless to you. (I note that the giveaways are apparently not completely random--the fact that I win so many of them is a clue there.) You'd be cheating yourself, and the people who actually wanted to read that particular book.
I got in one of those Goodreads giveaways I mention every so often.
I enjoy this, because I never know precisely which of the five-to-ten entries I've put in might pay off. I don't overdo; I only enter those giveaways where I think I can actually read the book and give it a fair review.
So I'm not sure how to react to a message I got recently offering a new app. It's designed to detect which giveaways are ending on a given day and autoenter all of them. It also tells you your odds of winning an individual giveaway or the aggregate based on how many people had entered when the program activates.
That seems like a cheat to me, and liable to get you books you wouldn't want to read, useless to you. (I note that the giveaways are apparently not completely random--the fact that I win so many of them is a clue there.) You'd be cheating yourself, and the people who actually wanted to read that particular book.
