Bookmooch! Free books!
About three weeks ago, i ran into this very neat site - Bookmooch. The principle is simple - you list the books you are willing to give away. Someone asks for them and you send them. For every book sent you accumulate credits towards asking for books yourself.
I am TRYING to clean out my bookshelves (there will probably be a post in early August of all the books i am willing to give away to anyone who asks) and quickly got a request for Pnin by Nabokov. I sent it out promptly and got three credits. Today i was informed that my copy of Paul Auster’s New York Trilogy is on its way from the UK! How exciting. i figure i won’t be here when it arrives, but it will be something to look forward to when i return to North American soil.
Two four-day weeks to go. I am nervous. Sickeningly nervous. But committed. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, right?
Thanks for sharing the link! I’ll have to look into it. My bookshelves are overstacked and in need of space, so guess I’ll have a place where to give my books away (and not in the recycle bin)
Bookmooch is amazing. You might want to check out swaptree.com and paperbackswap.com as well.