BookMooch: Giving new life to used books

August 17, 2006 · Posted in Library and Information Science

If you want to trade titles in your personal library, or if you missed a a title and you want to acquire it, try BookMooch : a community for exchanging used books.

BookMooch was launched last week, and already, it has around 4,000 members “mooching” used books. To start mooching (exchanging) used books, one has to register and start earning points. The number of points you earned determines your eligibility to particular book that you want to receive. You can earn points by posting books that you want to give away. To facilitate the exchange of books, members will shoulder the shipping costs. Giving away and receiving books have their corresponding points that is credited to your account.

Basically, BookMooch is similar to Library Thing, though it goes beyond by simply cataloging personal collection to include exchanges as well.

Technorati Tags: BookMooch, book exchange

Comments

5 Responses to “BookMooch: Giving new life to used books”

plasticspam on October 9th, 2006 4:41 am

I interviewed the owner of bookmooch recently (John Buckman)

http://librarytwopointzero.blogspot.com/2006/10/interview-with-john-buckman-owner-of.html
scookepiemo on February 6th, 2009 7:11 pm

cialis inch by inch doctrinaire
Alex18 on October 22nd, 2009 8:30 pm

America’s Talk continues to air Bruce’s program at the same time each night. ,
Gangster33 on October 23rd, 2009 7:14 pm

What am I to Think about Easter? ,
Mr.Carrot92 on October 23rd, 2009 7:14 pm

You may also want to find another surgeon to get a second opinion, to confirm if surgery is the right treatment for you. ,