Comments on: BookMooch – Trade your unwanted books! http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/2006/09/03/bookmooch-trade-your-unwanted-books/ World Organi[sz]ation Of Broken Dreams Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:35:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: David Goodwin http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/2006/09/03/bookmooch-trade-your-unwanted-books/comment-page-1/#comment-26510 David Goodwin Tue, 05 Sep 2006 20:45:42 +0000 http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/?p=456#comment-26510 Kat's been using http://www.readitswapit.co.uk which seems to have worked quite well - from what I can gather, you publish a list of books you have, and then scour other people's lists for ones you'd like. After identifying such books, you have to hope the person with the book you want, wants one of yours - if so, you swap. Perhaps BookMooch is better, if some sort of voucher system can be worked out,as at least then you don't get people with few/crap books being unable to get any others. On the other hand - how do you value vouchers? Does the recipient of the book assign 'feedback' (like ebay) to indicate the value of the book they've received? Perhaps worth investigating. Thanks! David. Kat’s been using http://www.readitswapit.co.uk which seems to have worked quite well – from what I can gather, you publish a list of books you have, and then scour other people’s lists for ones you’d like. After identifying such books, you have to hope the person with the book you want, wants one of yours – if so, you swap.

Perhaps BookMooch is better, if some sort of voucher system can be worked out,as at least then you don’t get people with few/crap books being unable to get any others.

On the other hand – how do you value vouchers? Does the recipient of the book assign ‘feedback’ (like ebay) to indicate the value of the book they’ve received?

Perhaps worth investigating. Thanks!
David.

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