Comments on: Have you used PaperBackSwap? http://sensetosave.com/2007/11/07/have-you-used-paperbackswap/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:56:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Homemaker of the 21st Century.http://sensetosave.com/2007/11/07/have-you-used-paperbackswap/comment-page-1/#comment-1878 Homemaker of the 21st Century. Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:32:00 +0000 http://sensetosave.com/2007/11/07/have-you-used-paperbackswap/#comment-1878 This sounds really great! I'm always running out of books to read, this would be a great way to always have some around! Thanks for sharing :) This sounds really great! I’m always running out of books to read, this would be a great way to always have some around! Thanks for sharing :)

]]> By: Mar.http://sensetosave.com/2007/11/07/have-you-used-paperbackswap/comment-page-1/#comment-1877 Mar. Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:10:00 +0000 http://sensetosave.com/2007/11/07/have-you-used-paperbackswap/#comment-1877 Sounds like a good idea, but Baltimore has an even better one (I think). It's called the Baltimore Book Thing (http://www.bookthing.org/) and you take your unwanted books there and pick up as many books as you want. It's not a one to one exchange. We've gotten lots of stuff there, including some neat cookbooks, travel books, history, mythology, etc. Sounds like a good idea, but Baltimore has an even better one (I think). It’s called the Baltimore Book Thing (http://www.bookthing.org/) and you take your unwanted books there and pick up as many books as you want. It’s not a one to one exchange. We’ve gotten lots of stuff there, including some neat cookbooks, travel books, history, mythology, etc.

]]> By: Nicole.http://sensetosave.com/2007/11/07/have-you-used-paperbackswap/comment-page-1/#comment-1876 Nicole. Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:31:00 +0000 http://sensetosave.com/2007/11/07/have-you-used-paperbackswap/#comment-1876 I love PBS. Right now I have a stack of great To Be Read books from there that cost me practically nothing (just around $2 per book for each book I sent out to other people). <br/><br/>It also has a CD swap (which I haven't used yet) and a DVD swap (which is pretty new). If you're really thrifty and you have CDs you don't need or want, you can post those and earn credits for sending them out (about 99 cents) and use those credits to get books. That's even cheaper than the $2 or so that it costs to send a book out! I love PBS. Right now I have a stack of great To Be Read books from there that cost me practically nothing (just around $2 per book for each book I sent out to other people).

It also has a CD swap (which I haven’t used yet) and a DVD swap (which is pretty new). If you’re really thrifty and you have CDs you don’t need or want, you can post those and earn credits for sending them out (about 99 cents) and use those credits to get books. That’s even cheaper than the $2 or so that it costs to send a book out!

]]> By: HRL.http://sensetosave.com/2007/11/07/have-you-used-paperbackswap/comment-page-1/#comment-1875 HRL. Wed, 07 Nov 2007 04:04:00 +0000 http://sensetosave.com/2007/11/07/have-you-used-paperbackswap/#comment-1875 BookIt!!! I thought BookIt was funny because it was supposed to encourage kids to read. But the goal they set was something like 10 books for the summer. I think I read 10 books each week during the summer. It was nice to get free pizza as a "reward" for doing something I loved anyway. <br/><br/>The book swap sounds intriguing. I might have to check it out, but we have the BEST used bookstore here that gives generous store credit when you take books in. Every couple of months we take books that won't sell on half.com, and its like Christmas!<br/><br/>Here's something else based on a similar idea, with a wider selection of stuff: www.poshpoints.com. You get 15 points for signing up. When I joined in the spring, most of the stuff was junk, but I did find some things to spend my 15 pts on (mostly craft supplies). I haven't been back on since I used up my 15 points, but it was fun to get some free things! BookIt!!! I thought BookIt was funny because it was supposed to encourage kids to read. But the goal they set was something like 10 books for the summer. I think I read 10 books each week during the summer. It was nice to get free pizza as a “reward” for doing something I loved anyway.

The book swap sounds intriguing. I might have to check it out, but we have the BEST used bookstore here that gives generous store credit when you take books in. Every couple of months we take books that won’t sell on half.com, and its like Christmas!

Here’s something else based on a similar idea, with a wider selection of stuff: http://www.poshpoints.com. You get 15 points for signing up. When I joined in the spring, most of the stuff was junk, but I did find some things to spend my 15 pts on (mostly craft supplies). I haven’t been back on since I used up my 15 points, but it was fun to get some free things!

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