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Yet another damn WEB20SOCIALNETWORKBULLDADA site, but I find this one appealing. The deal with BookMooch is this:

-List books you want to give away.
-When someone wants a book of yours, you send it to them and get credit for doing so.
-Take your earned credits and request books you want from others.

I'm sitting on a bunch of books that I know I'm not going to read again and have zero buy back value at the local used book stores. I'd rather give them away to people who want them.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 28 August 2006 22:58 (nineteen years ago)

I've only have two listed right this minute, but my page is here: http://bookmooch.com/m/inventory/quartzcity

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 28 August 2006 23:01 (nineteen years ago)

Could be fun. If I ever finally do my proper book purge I'll keep this in mind.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 28 August 2006 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

i knew this was a chris thread :-)

― el borracho (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 28 August 2006 23:15 (nineteen years ago)

I got tired of listing useless eBay/Amazon auctions for stuff that's only selling for a quarter. Time to make a run to storage and take another crack at this.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 28 August 2006 23:17 (nineteen years ago)

i didn't bring very many books from home, but i'll try my hand at this tonight.

― el borracho (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 28 August 2006 23:18 (nineteen years ago)

I feel like most of the stuff I'd want to be rid of, no one else would want either. When we move (shortly), maybe large amounts can go to the local library for their booksale. Or maybe we'll get strapped for time again and just pack them all up (all 2 tons of them), thinking we'll sort it out later.

― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 00:30 (nineteen years ago)

This is a great idea! I've got tons of books that are dead weight here.

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 00:48 (nineteen years ago)

I bought a bunch of great stuff cheap at auctions and yard sales in late '04 and early '05, thinking I was going to conquer the world via eBay and Amazon, but that shit's hard work. I've already given a lot of it to the Salvation Army. If I had any kind of work ethic, I'd list the rest of it here. Loads of 50s crime paperbacks.

― Danny Aioli (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 00:54 (nineteen years ago)

do you guys know that libraries give you books to read for free, and then when you are done you just bring them back, and then you don't have to worry about them after that?

― sublime frequency (sublime frequency), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 05:35 (nineteen years ago)

What's the fun in that?

― My Little Ruud Book (Ken L), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/ourtown/060811/bookexchange/

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

I want those Merle Haggard guitar tabs.

― My Little Ruud Book (Ken L), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

do you guys know that libraries give you books to read for free, and then when you are done you just bring them back, and then you don't have to worry about them after that?

Never heard of them. I certainly don't work in one or anything.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

sublime, I think you should read this

― My Little Ruud Book (Ken L), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

If not this

― My Little Ruud Book (Ken L), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

Ages ago, I worked in an office with several other readers. Every few weeks, one of us would bring in a grocery sack full of random books we'd finished and some other of us would take them away to read. There was also a bookshelf in the break room where books would come and go.

I'd be more likely to manage something like that - shipping off a random box of books every now and then, rather than going through the listing and selecting and rejecting.

So - any of you lot want a random box of books? Email me. No guarantees what you'll get, but we're moving soon and need to thin things out. If you're outside the US, it goes via slow boat.

― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

do you guys know that libraries give you books to read for free, and then when you are done you just bring them back, and then you don't have to worry about them after that?

Do you know that libraries don't have all the books that I'm interested in? And that the books I want from them, they've taken out of the system and are selling in their book sales?

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

do you guys know that libraries give you books to read for free, and then when you are done you just bring them back, and then you don't have to worry about them after that?

Or did you know that our local library, which assumes that everyone is a half-blind Catherine Cookson fan, was vandalized into the ground and has closed, and there isn't another lending library within ten miles of where I live?

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

Jaq, I'd love to take you up on your offer, but if I bring in more books, etc.

Still taking my spare books to the Oxfam shop, where I bought them.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

completely understood Accentmonkey :) Wishful thinking on my part that I can convince others to accept part of our pile, so I won't have to actually deal with it! Taking it all to the local thrift shop or donating to the library might be the better thing.

When we moved the last time (almost 3 years ago), we boxed several hundred up and chucked them into storage. I had a peek in there last week - box upon box of books.

― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

I'm so far behind on my reading I can't really consider signing up for this, but I have some friends and neighbors that will probably shoot to the top of the bookmooch charts in no time.

― My Little Ruud Book (Ken L), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 01:46 (nineteen years ago)

i'm very sorry to hear about all the bad libraries. you should clearly move to a town with a better library!

― sublime frequency (sublime frequency), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 07:20 (nineteen years ago)

... or just do this thing i guess.

― sublime frequency (sublime frequency), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 07:21 (nineteen years ago)

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