Book Mooch

3 ratings since posting on Wednesday, August 16, 2006
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milk
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For you monkeys who can read
The problem: neglected books in the basement collecting dust. The other challenge: chasing down elusive books that have gone out of print. I am amazed by Bookmooch, one of those killer applications that has materialized out of the noise of the intraweb.

It works like this. . . you list the books you want to get rid of and agree to send them promptly when people ask for them. You get points in bookmooch credit for both of these tasks. Search for the books you want, if anyone has them in their inventory you can mooch them, and then they send them to you for free.

In only a couple of weeks, I've scored several excellent finds (including Cormac McCarthy's <i>The Road</i> the week it was published). And those stacks of unwanted book are disappearing at a rapid pace. . . and appearing in the hands of people who want to read them. All for the modest price of a little postage. Awesome. - milk , posted 10/02/06
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How cool is this?
I'm not sending and receiving yet, but I can't wait. This will be better than buying and selling at Half Price books!!!! - , posted 08/17/06
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FREE BOOKS RULE
BookMooch is a community for exchanging used books: give away books you no longer need in exchange for books you really want.

Every time you give someone a book, you 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.

There is no cost to join or use this web site: your only cost is mailing your books to others.

You can:
- browse books by language of the book, by location, including by country, counties and cities in the USA, cities in the UK and departments in France.
- view book lists sorted by author's last name
- look for people using all these many methods as well
- filter on title/author/description as well as view results for just one language
- add a book to your inventory directly from the book detail page, and the whole wishlist process is much smoother
- use the Library software called "Books" for exporting to BookMooch books.aetherial.net/wordpress/ - , posted 08/16/06

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