I got home today to find a box from Poetry magazine and an envelope from Google in my mail. I pulled in a pretty nice haul of free stuff, if I do say so myself.
Poetry magazine sends out up to 10 free issues each April for National Poetry Month, so I signed up to get some to hand out to friends. I don't recognize any of the poets in this issue, but if someone gets to like poetry a little more, all the better.
The Google Ebooks bookmarks were a total surprise. I found a blog post complaining about the bookmarks. It didn't quite say, How dare Google send me free stuff!, but it cam close. You can read the post here, and read my comment either on the original post or below:
I got these in the mail today too, and I'm pretty excited. My only problem is I don't have a tablet or a smartphone. I have a Nook. Where's the bookmark that says, "My other book is an ereader."? I can give the smartphone one to my friend, but I don't know if I even know anyone with a tablet. I do use my laptop for reading ebooks because I'm a grad student & it makes typing in notes a lot easier when I don't have to look off of my Nook and click through the pages. Plus I like my laptop and use it all the time, more than my Nook. One nice thing about Google Ebooks is you can read in a web browser, so they should have a bookmark that says, "My other ebook is a web browser." Still, I don't use Google Ebooks all that much, since its not that convenient to convert Google Ebooks to Nook-compatible files with Adobe Digital Editions on Ubuntu like I have to. The cheapness of the bookmarks makes me more ambivalent about it. Had they been more expensive, I would have felt like Google wasted more. But as it stands, I'm psyched I got free stuff from Google!
Looks like fun stuff!!!!
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