BookMooch
A couple of weeks ago I joined BookMooch, a book swapping site started by the founder of the online record label,Magnatune, John Buckman.
BookMooch is unique among online booktrading sites in that there is no cost involved, and philanthropy is encouraged. You can give credits to charities like libraries, children's hospitals, and other needy causes, so that they can receive books. You receive 1/10th of a point for every book you make available, and for every book you send out you receive a point that may be used to request a book in the system. At the very least, you must send one book for every five you "mooch," and this ratio is strongly enforced.
So far, I have mailed six books, received five, requested four more, and have made 57 books available to fellow moochers. The BookMooch selection of books available matches my tastes a bit more than PaperBackSwap (my other book trading service), I have been able to pick up a couple of graphic novels and Murakami short story collections through BookMooch.
Comments
david, i linked to your site from jodi's. i just started on bookmooch too and i love, love, love it. bookmooch is like the farm your dad told you your dog went to. he really got rid of it, but it went to a nice home. i have a lot of craptastic choices from bookclub that i disliked reading once and would probably never read again, so if someone wants them, i'm all to happy to oblige.
i have limited space too, so to know that someone else will take and love my books is such a good feeling. makes me feel less of a faliure as a bookowner. i love going over to other people's houses and looking at all of their books, but i hate them in my own home. isn't that weird?