It’s very revealing, don’t you think, to see someone’s bookshelf?
Thanks to Alexis from Knot Sew Crafty I am now a card carrying member of PaperBack Swap. It is a book exchange group. It’s very simple – you sign up, you list the books you want to swap away, and then you wait for someone to want one of your books. When they do you mail it to them, they mark that they received it and then you have one book credit. When you join up and put up 10 books for trade you automatically get 2 credits to start with.
It’s called PaperBack Swap but you can also list hardback and audio books.
I tend to want to hang on to my hardbacks but the paperbacks are just hanging around, using up valuable shelf space. I listed about 28 books so far. I have another box of books still to go through. They do have to be in decent condition. No water damaged books, no books missing their front covers. I hope they accept dusty, spiderwebby books because I have lots of those out on the shelves in the garage.
It was rather alarming to see what I use for bookmarks. I found a checkbook that is at least 8 years old because it has our old address on it. A $10 American Express traveler’s check. A boarding pass (actually a couple of them). I bet you anything most of my pile of books was purchased at an airport newstand.
The best part is getting to package up and ship off a book. I love sending packages to people ~ even people I don’t know. And it’s RECYCLING! Whoot!
Hi! I personally check out 99% of the books I read from the library. I reserve them online and select the branch near my house to pick them up. I’m so bad at mailing packages! I wanted to recommend Garden Spells and Sugar Queen for you to read. Very fun reads.
What a great idea. I’ve got loads of books and so does my daughter. I am definitely signing up. Thanks for the post.
Thanks for the tip! But I think from the looks of your stack of books, we could just swap books without a “middle man”—we really have the same taste in reading material! My cat & I sit & read together every afternoon—so relaxing! If I’m not on the sofa at the appointed time, she comes looking for me……
Wow! This is a cool idea! I dont’ ahve many books to swap though… But I do have Camille’s new book list from her highschool. I plan to make may way through the list, as best I can! First up is Angela’s Ashes!
Hi!
Thanks for the tip. I signed up today myself.
Hugs,
Traci
I’ve been a member of PBS for a while now. I’m really enjoying it.
I’ve been a member of PBS for a while now. I’m really enjoying it.