March 9, 2010
Mooch with Me
If you are like me, and keep buying more books despite the precarious piles stacked next to your already filled bookshelf, then maybe you should try out BookMooch.com. It’s essentially a book-for-book barter system in which you get a point for sending someone a book, and you lose one point for each book you “mooch.” There are some other helpful stipulations: you earn three points for sending a book internationally and 1/10th of a point for leaving feedback for a swap well done. You can search for books by language, country of origin, and (more interestingly) most “wishlisted” and most available ("The Da Vinci Code" is a contender for that title, with four hundred and ninety-two copies up for mooching). It seems like an ingenious way to save money (and space!) for those of us looking to update our libraries. Do you participate? Leave a comment with your thoughts on the system.
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