Digital Sextant

So I’ve been a member of BookMooch for a little over 3 years now, and boy it’s been fun. I originally joined as a way to help assuage my book buying (and it’s worked, though I’ve had to reign in the postage to $12/month or so). A few observations: Three months seems to be the [… Read More]

As you all know, I’m an avid user of Bookmooch, a book swapping website where you can find people who want your old books and find people giving away books for you. A while back, they profiled an essay about how to make the most of your BookMooch account. One piece of advice said “free [… Read More]

I’m having a strange experience over at BookMooch. As a way to keep myself from spending too much mailing books, I have a self-imposed limit of $10-12 / month. This means I can mail three or four books domestically, or a smaller amount if I’m sending one overseas. My queue of books to send is [… Read More]

The Ferris Bueller Fight Club Theory: Cameron dreamed the whole thing from his bed. http://bit.ly/tJTYS # Are you on BookMooch yet? Why not? http://bookmooch.com/ # I can’t stop laughing to myself because I just told somebody the clown joke. # Powered by Twitter Tools.

So I’ve raved before here about Bookmooch, the best book swapping site on the interwebs: You list books you want to give away, and get 1/10 of a point for each. You give books away for 1 point each (or three, if you send them internationally). You spend your points to request points books from [… Read More]

For anyone else who uses bookmooch, I’ve got an interesting situation I’d like you to weigh in on. If you don’t use it, here’s how it works: You list a bunch of books you have that you’d be willing to give away. People who want the books you have request them from you. You mail [… Read More]