VERY VERY COOL SITE
bookmooch.com
BookMooch is a community for exchanging used books.
BookMooch lets you give away books you no longer need in exchange for books you really want.
Give & receive: Every time you give someone a book, you earn a point and can get any book you want from anyone else at BookMooch. Once you've read a book, you can keep it forever or put it back into BookMooch for someone else, as you wish.
No cost: there is no cost to join or use this web site: your only cost is mailing your books to others.
Points for entering books: you receive a tenth-of-a-point for every book you type into our system, and one point each time you give a book away. In order to keep receiving books, you need to give away at least one book for every three you receive.
Help charities: you can also give your points to charities we work with, such as children's hospitals (so a sick kid can get a free book delivered to their bed), Library fund, African literacy, or to us to thank us for running this web site <grin>.
World wide: You can request books from other countries, in other languages. You receive 3 points when you send a book out of your country, to help compensate you for the greater mailing cost, but it only costs the moocher 2 points to get the book. John Buckman, who runs BookMooch, has lived in California, England, France and Germany, and was frustrated by the vast number of books that were printed in just one country and not available in the other countries (for example, many books are published in Britain and never made available in America).
Wishlist: you can keep a "book wish list" that will automatically arrive to you when you have the points and/or the book becomes available in our catalog.
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Menolly
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I've been a member of bookcrossing for several years. One of my own released books wound up in Russia. It's pretty cool... 
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stonemaybe
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deer of the dawn
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I'm definitely joining bookcrossing, for now. It's something I've been doing for years, anyway. As for Bookmooch, I'm afraid mailing them from Nigeria would be prohibitively expensive.
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ahhhh... if only all our creativity in wickedness could be fixed by "Corrupt a Wish." - Linna Heartlistener
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Menolly
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I love bookcrossing.
"Releasing" books anonymously,
other than tracking numbers,
just opens your eyes to where they can wind up.
I generally leave mine on a coffee table in front of the fireplace at my local Atlanta Bread Company. Being in a college town, they're always picked up, although not always followed through on who takes them.
It really is a cool thing to take part in.
"Releasing" books anonymously,
other than tracking numbers,
just opens your eyes to where they can wind up.
I generally leave mine on a coffee table in front of the fireplace at my local Atlanta Bread Company. Being in a college town, they're always picked up, although not always followed through on who takes them.
It really is a cool thing to take part in.