Captain Compost is addicted to books. She spends hours scouring Amazon, her local book stores, thrift stores, and yard sales for readable treasures.
About a year ago, Mr. Captain Compost discovered PaperBackSwap. This website is one of the best things her family has found, truly. The concept is simple. Read a book and once you’re finished, you post it on the website for others to request. Once someone requests your book, you mail it out (media mail is only $2.23) and when they receive your book, they alert the website and you receive a credit. With that credit you can request someone else’s unwanted book… which arrives in your mailbox a week or so later.
Captain Compost and her mister have used this website to grow their book collection and according to PBS have saved over $400 by swapping books instead of purchasing new ones! CC likes that she has saved money as well as trees by reusing books and then passing them on to be read again. CC has also enjoyed the decluttering that resulted from sending out the books that she and her husband are finished with.
Along the same line, PBS has two sister sites where you an swap DVD’s and CD’s. The credits you earn by sending out unwanted DVD’s, CD’s and books are all interchangeable within the three websites.
Please do yourself a favor and check out PaperbackSwap! You won’t be disappointed!
Happy Swapping!
I’m so excited by this and can’t wait to check it out and get started.
I’d never heard of this! Thanks for the tip; I will definitely be using it~
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