Some of you may know I do a Thrifty Thursday meme to read the freebies I get. I often combine it with other challenges like Ho-Ho-Ho Readathon, so I am going to challenge you to do this also.
The Rules
So grab your holiday reads, your winter books, your yuletide murder-mysteries, your naughty & nice romances and even your holiday horror and get ready for some fun! Audiobook or ebook, you will read the same sort of books as you normally would for the Readathon with winter and holiday reads but they will also be freebies.
- These are only freebies I get (Kindle, Nook, Kobo, etc) by purchasing for $0 or ones through author newsletters which anyone can sign up and get for free. Both Tantor and Audible have occasional free audios (to anyone) and I do include those.
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Not included are things like Kindle Unlimited or Prime Free Reading, Audible Plus, library books or advance reader copies (ARCs).
Since I one-click on 1-2 freebies a day or probably at least 5 a week, I came up with this feature to make sure I start reading them.
Giveaway:
I have set this up so you can enter 2 books each day into the rafflecopter. I tried to make it easier by putting everything into the rafflecopter and not having a separate review linky. That means no one but me will see all your freebie review links, but you are welcome to link them up to my regular Thrifty Thursday post next week (The link won’t work until November 25th) That’s Thanksgiving but you can link there as many as you want daily and it will be open for links indefinitely.
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I have a few holiday themed books on audiobook that I’m hoping to get through. My concentration for sitting and reading isn’t good at the moment but I’m finding that audios are perfect as I can be a fidgety as I like and can listen while cooking, cleaning, walking, or gaming. 🙂
Thanks for being an “Elf” Anne! I love this readathon.
I enjoy this RAT also but this is the absolute earliest I want to read holiday books. I have 93 on my holiday shelf of which 81 are freebies. I better get clicking I was sure it was over 200, lol. No doubt I will be able to pick something from 81 choices. Do I sort by highest rating, oldest, newest or do I pick an anthology with 8-10 books in it and do that? Decisions decisions.
I know I have plenty of freebies that fit the requirements. Thanks for hosting!
Thank you for having me! I just explained in the last reply that I have 93 holiday books with 81 freebies so I should be able to find something.
I’m so excited it’s time for the HoHoHo again! I’ll have a look for some freebies.
Happy reading.
Thank you Maureen. I have some fun ones picked to read. (If I can just finish up a couple ARCs.)
I have over 100 Christmas books on my TBR. I consider most of them freebies as I will be getting them from the library. Some were from Amazon, and some are from KU. I am loving this readathon, and thanks for being an elf. I am one as well, so I hope you over to my post at Carla Loves To Read.
Yes I have plenty of freebies but for this challenge KU and the library and ARCs don’t count. I have 3,3xx freebies but only 91 are holiday related.
I have more than enough reads/listens to make it through this challenge. Audible Original/Plus Catalog has a nice handful of Holiday Romance. The library as mentioned by someone else. And there is my large stash of ebook and audios. Happy Holiday Reading/Listening.
I am using some of those sources but for this challenge KU, Audible Plus, library books don’t count only books which came free either by purchasing for zero (with no membership) or from an author newsletter available to anyone. I am in fact listening to Anne Perry’s Christmas stories which are in Audible Plus for the next few days, but they don’t count for this challenge.
freebie Amazon – Holiday Terminal: A Second Chance Secret Baby Billionaire Holiday Romance (The Warren Family Holidays , #1) Kindle Edition
by Gwyn McNamee free & KU -https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Y5NRSQW
Have lots more freebies for the Holidays with links:
Holiday Terminal: A Second Chance Secret Baby Billionaire Holiday Romance (The Warren Family Holidays , #1) Kindle Edition by Gwyn McNamee free & KU -https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Y5NRSQW
Meet Me Under the Mistletoe Kindle Edition
by M. Robinson (Author), Skye Warren (Author), Claire Contreras (Author), Katee Robert (Author), Pam Godwin (Author), Giana Darling (Author), Jenika Snow (Author), Amelia Wilde (Author), Alta Hensley (Author), Theodora Taylor (Author) free & KU – https://www.amazon.com/Meet-Me-Under-Mistletoe-Robinson-ebook/dp/B09JNPRKFW
Sorry for the delay …. internet went down
Thanks for sharing!
Wonderful combination of challenges, Anne💜
It seemed like a good idea since I do it every year but people don’t seem to understand what is not included?
Thanks for hosting a giveaway during the HoHoHo RAT! 🙂
I really thought it would be fun and I collect so many of these and this give me a chance to read them.
I inadvertently planned ahead for your challenge, Anne. I wanted to read books that would count for COYER and HoHOHoRAT so I am buddy reading A Kiss for Midwinter by Courtney Milan with Kara. And, it happens to be a freebie so it counts here. Woohoo!
That’s excellent planning. And I enjoyed that one, and everything I have read by Courtney Milan.
I have no clue, will probably be more in the urban fantasy area since those are most of the freebies I get. probably toss in a mystery or two.
You have to be in the HoHoHo Read-athon to do this one, and they must be holiday or winter stories. I mostly have ones which are holiday romances but a few mystery ones too.
I have a ton of books on my Kindle, I just need to figure out which ones were free and which ones I have paid for. The one I finished today was one of my free ones! Thanks for doing this.
yes that is one of the things I have done since the beginning is put it on a Goodreads shelf to indicate how I got the book. I separate free purchases from author newsletter freebies which came thru Bookfunnel or something like that. Of course, I also have ARCs and library books and books / audios I purchased for $$$$.
I WISH I had done it from the beginning, it is such a chore with over 1500 on the Kindle, but that includes all my kid’s books too, sigh! Some day I will catch up 😉
I’ve done some updates over the years. The batch editing tools in Goodreads are really quite good. I track where I got it but also the criteria I use to find books to read like the genre, format, and whether it is first in a series, and also if for a particular challenge. I broke mystery into 4 subgenres this year and I’m still reclassifying from the main mystery genre a bit at a time.
I hope you don’t mind, I sent you a friend request on Goodreads. I am an organizer and always interested in others shelves and what they are reading.