Read It, Love It, Share It
Nov 3rd, 2008 | By Wise Snob | Category: Sustainable Living
Purchasing books can be an addicting and expensive habit. Why not swap your books for new ones? Here’s how you can easily save cash and reduce clutter while expanding great works of literature.
Book Mooch is a free online community where registered users post books they’d like to mail to other members who’d like to receive them. Each book sent gives you a point, and the points accumulate to allow you to receive books in return. Just like Ebay, users get get feedback from transactions to help indicate those who are great to work with and those who aren’t as timely. The only cost is the shipping and the time spent waiting to receive a book. You even get bonus points if you ship internationally.
Book Crossing is another free swapping site and was founded in 2001 by a couple who found tracking books an interesting hobby. This idea developed into an online community of over 720,000 members and 5.1 million books that are being shared and tracked over time. Book Crossing differs from Book Mooch in that it allows you to register books that originated from you so that you can track them as they travel from reader to reader. This is a nice touch and allows you to see how some of your favorite books are being shared around the world.
So take a look at your library shelf. How often do you honestly read the books you’ve collected? Wouldn’t it be great for you to share some of those great tomes with other interested readers? And wouldn’t it be great if you stumbled upon something you want to read and received it at no virtually cost? These sites allow you to free your literature to curious minds out there, so register today!
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