Tor Book Reviews, they are a-comin'

by @scottmarlowe 1/17/2010 10:54:00 AM

The year is 2008. Tor is giving away free eBooks. Lots of them.

I featured those eBooks on this blog as they were released, adding a little bit of information about the authors or the books. I'd also planned on eventually doing accompanying reviews for each of the titles released. There was only one problem: I had no 'good' option for reading them. I can't read long form on a computer screen, nor did I want to print every one of those books. Kind of defeats the e-purpose, if you know what I mean.

Now, thanks to my new Kindle and Amazon's free PDF-to-AZW conversion process (see "Option to Convert PDF Files to Kindle Format" at bottom of page), I'm finally not only getting around to reading those eBooks, but I'll also be reviewing them. Some might be micro-reviews, others will be full reviews. Some of the eBooks I might start and not finish; I'll note that in the review.

Consider this a long term goal. It might take the better part of the year (or longer) to get through them all as I'll also be reading other eBooks along the way. But, now that I have a viable option for reading eBooks, I figure it's time to crack open my treasure trove of free eBooks and start reading them.

This effort goes hand-in-hand with my joining LibraryThing's 50 Book Challenge for 2010 (more on that forthcoming).

For reference, here is the list of eBooks previously given away by Tor. I'll review them in roughly the same order (though I'm starting with Old Man's War by John Scalzi).