75ers Book Swap

I have many books looking for new homes. Instead of donating them somewhere, it would be nice if they went to people I know.

So here's the thread we can all join in and swap books between us.

Post the books you want to pass on.
Claim the book you want.
Send the book to the claimant.

Be sure to post when books have been claimed.

Have fun!

This sounds interesting. So how do you envision this working, Stephanie?

Say I post a list of books I want to pass on? Would the person interested in it send me a PM requesting the book? And then when I've mailed the books out, I update my post with a 'sent' tag next to the title?

Do I then keep just the 1 post, and edit it periodically when I have new books to add to the list?

>2 cameling: Caro, something like that. :-)

I was thinking a post with books to be swapped, PMs for claiming and making arrangements, updating the original post when books are sent out. Then another post for a new list so people will know we've got more to swap?

I'm interested, but I have to think about this a little because I usually keep an inventory of books I want to give away on bookmooch. So I need to figure out if I can manage 2 lists which may end up duplicated, and to ensure I update them simultaneously otherwise someone could be requesting a book that's already been claimed on the other site.

That's the problem I had with maintaining bookmooch and paperback swap...I'd forget to update one of them and then run into problems and have to disappoint a requester.

Caro, that's understandable. I'm sure you'll figure out a way to make it work for you. At least I hope you do.

I know there will be some kinks to work out but I have faith in our community to figure them out fairly as we go along.

My list will go up over the weekend.

Interesting! What a great way to pass around ARCs!

I think mostly, that the "rules" of the swap should be left up to each individual.

And yes Richard, I hadn't even thought of that one :-)

I would definitely be interested Stephanie. Unfortunately in my case postage would become a little prohibitive. Let's see how we can work around that for now.

The link to my list of books available for swap is here. Please PM me if there's something you'd like and we'll work out the details.

Negotiating With the Dead - Atwood, Margaret
Occidental Mythology - Campell, Joseph
Evil Under the Sun - Christie, Agatha (no dust cover)
Indigo Slam - Crais, Robert
Chasing Darkness - Crais, Robert
Towers of Gold - Dinkelspiel, Frances
You Come Too - Frost, Robert
Catch-22 - Heller, Joseph
Wizard of Earthsea, A/Tombs of Atuan, The/Farthest Shore, The - Le Guin, Ursula
Year in Van Nuys, A - Loh, Sandra Tsing
Who Am I This Time: Uncovering the Fictive Personality by Martin, Jay (Touchstones not working)
Cinderella - McBain, Ed
Religious Literacy - Prothero, Stephen
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde - Stevenson, Robert Louis
Monkey and the Tiger, The - Van Gulik, Robert
Little House on the Prairie (9 books) - Wilder, Laura Ingalls
Caine Mutiny, The - Wouk, Herman (International Collector's Library edition)

interesting!

I just gave away a box of books... timing is key :) I will have a look though and see what I have that could go to a new home. I work all day today, though .....

Thanks for this Steph!

I was asked to visit here ;-)) and I would seriously be interested if I lived in the US. But being from the Netherlands and reading mostly books in Dutch I think it will not work for me. ;-)))

This is a great idea, Stephanie! I've been on Bookmooch for at least 5 years and have acquired a couple hundred books but sharing them with fellow LTers has a certain appeal.
Of course, shipping internationally is going to be touchy.

To add my two cents.... Since we are probably all on Bookmooch or Paperbackswap, maybe this thread would be a good way to share our lists/postings that we already have on those other sites. I'm pretty sure you can search by user (at least you can on Paperbackswap).

At least this way, you would still get your book credits for going thru the service. (Granted the same international shipping issues exist, not much we can do until they develop the transporter that Star Trek promised us)

To that end. On Paperbackswap, my username is mahsdad and I currently have the following listed...

Eat, Pray, Love
The Emperor's Children
Plane Insanity
The Plot Against America
Water for Elephants

Here are books I am more than willing to share. If anyone wants some, or all, please send a post on my home page, letting me know which ones and your full name and address:

The Anatomy of Wings by Karen Foxlee
Autumn Journey by Priscilla Cummings
Everywhere by Bruce Brooks

I have more, I'll post those later today.

>13 mahsdad: That's a good idea too, Jeff. My name on bookmooch is the same as it is here on LT .. 'cameling'.

The list I have that's available for sharing is:
The Crush - Sandra Brown
Moonlight Becomes You - Mary Higgins Clark
Crossing the Mangrove - Maryse Conde
The Black Cat - Martha Grimes
Devices and Desires - P.D. James
Lullaby: An 87th Precinct novel - Ed Mcain
Plain Jane - Ferm Michaels
The Italian Wedding - Nick Pellegrino
A Spanish Lover - Joanna Trollope
Left for Dead : The Untold Story of the Greatest Disaster in Modern Sailing History - Nick Ward
Once Removed - Mako Yoshikawa

If anyone wants these, please PM me with your details and the title of the book.

Oh, some of these are ex-library books.

By the way, I've added this thread to the group wiki.

>17 drneutron: Thanks Jim!

I suspended by BookMooch account a while ago because I was having health problems that made getting to the post office to mail off mooches problematic. This might be just the inspiration I need to start back up!

I don't do Bookmooch or PBS... I usually take books to a used book store for credit, but if they are GOOD reads,I'd rather they go to a good home. :)

So I'll use this listing for books that I really enjoyed and save the not so good ones for the used book store points!

>20 TinaV95: Tina, that's pretty much how I was gonna do it.

This made me consider reactivating my bookmooch account as well .... I stopped using it when the "international points debacle" occurred.

BookMooch and PBS ended up being a titanic PITA, stuff came in that was ungood and stuff went out to ingrates, so I'll leave sharing for here.

Here is the ongoing list. I can't afford international shipping, sorry! I'll mail them media mail to US addresses every week or so. PM me the addy, and I'll PM you the confirmation.

Richard, your link in >23 richardderus: took me to my own catalog?

>24 rosalita: me too

>23 richardderus: BookMooch and PBS always seemed a ginormous PITA for me so I never joined. C'es la vie.

I wonder why. I'm getting my Swap collection, the URL is for my Swap collection...try again, maybe? A transient bug?

>26 richardderus: must have been a transient bug, it worked for me the second time.

I am not on Bookmooch (In four years, I was unable to find a single book I wanted that anyone would ship to me) and I suspended my Paperbackswap account a year or so ago because it was simply too much of a hassle. Credits were accumulating, and I didn't want to use them for more books! That would simply exacerbate the problem.

There's a yard sale looming locally at the end of May, and I'll be disposing of a lot of these then. Alternatively, if there are books that people would like and don't mind compensating me for postage on, in the form of an Amazon gift certificate, I'd be happy to lug 'em down to the post office and mail them.

I've got Ruth Rendell Inspector Wexford books; a lot of the early Anne Perry books (most of these are hardcover, incidentally), multiple books by Elizabeth Peters, Lisa Scottoline, Jill Mansell, Sarah Challis, Catherine Alliott, Nora Roberts (the thriller/suspense books only, not the romance novels), Laura van Wormer, Stephen White, Simon Brett (the "Death under the Dryer" series), Erica James, Cathy Kelly and lots of others that I'll try to be more specific about. You can look at my library, and ask if there's something specific you're interested in. I may dispose of John Harvey mysteries, too. If it's a mystery series, chick lit, and older, odds are that it's on my disposal list. Not classics like PD James, or favorites like Susan Hill or Val McDermid, but...

A few others --

a bio of Mike Wallace
Before Versailles by Karleen Koen
Two older medical/science policy books by Laurie Garrett
Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly
Uncoupling by Meg Wolitzer (ARC)
Two mysteries by Shirley Tallman
Two by James patterson, Double Cross and 7th Heaven
Weekend in Paris by Robyn sisman
The Florabama Ladies Auxiliary by Lois Battle
Shake Off by Mischa Hiller
Moonlight in Odessa by janet Skeslien Charles (ARC)
Symphony by Jude Morgan
The Demon in the Freezer by Richard Preston
Some stuff by Rona Jaffe, Robert Ryan
Some true crime, including by Joe McGinniss

I'm sorry about mentioning PBS and Bookmooch. Seems I've opened some old wounds. Personally I never had a problem with PBS (tried Bookmooch, but like Chatterbox said, couldn't find anything that someone would ship).

I think in the end, we'd all like to see our books go to a good home and the folks here in this group are on the top of my list. So how ever you decide to share, its a good thing.

I've never had a gripe using PBS either. Sorry so many find it a hassle. I've never tried Bookmooch.

I am laytonwoman3rd on PBS, too, and currently have a dozen books listed:

For Margaret Maron fans:

Up Jumps the Devil
Killer Market
The Bootlegger's Daughter TAKEN
Uncommon Clay

Also:

Freedom by William Safire
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Speaking in Tongues by Jeffrey Deaver
Pastime by Robert B. Parker
Montenegro by Starling Lawrence
A God in Ruins by Leon Uris
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
Miss Bugle Saw God in the Cabbages by Sara Yeomans

I also have a copy of Thirteen Stories by Eudora Welty, not listed on PBS, but available if anyone here wants it. I offered it to participants in the American Authors Challenge, where we're reading Welty for May. No one there has claimed it so far. Just p.m. me with a request and your address if you would like it or the non-listed Maron noted above.

I like the idea of making a Swap collection for those who don't do BookMooch and PBS. I'll have to work on putting one together and will post here when it's ready to peruse.

I've been fortunate in my experiences on PBS as well--only once have I received a below-par book. My user name is Ronincats there as well, and my list of books up for adoption there. Go to PaperBackSwap.com and look for me in the Member Directory which is under the Community tab at the top. Then click on my Book Shelf once you have found me.

>32 ronincats: Thanks for explaining how to navigate the PBS site, Roni. I just came back here after thinking it isn't exactly intuitive, and people who don't use it might have trouble finding us. But you beat me to it!

I might also say you don't need to USE PBS--if you see something you like, come back here and tell me and I can pull it off the site.

Roni, check your pm please. :-)

I'm just bumping this up a bit~

I have some books (mostly gothic novels) that I've used for tutored reads here on LT (with lyzard as my tutor) that I would like to share with others on LibraryThing. You can either use my previous tutored reads as reading guides or request that lyzard be your personal tutor. I'm sure she'd love this (if she has the time to fit you in). I want to check with her first to see if this is okay since she sent me some of these books. If so, I'll be back with the list of books after I locate them and I get her permission.

Caveat: I need to limit my sharing of these books to those LTers within the U.S. due to the price of postage. Sorry!

Other information:
1. These books are often hard to obtain and may not be sold. These are strictly gifts although they may be passed along to other interested readers.
2. All of these books have a BookCrossing label taped neatly inside the front cover (in the hopes of a journal entry). :)
3. If you belong to BookMooch*, I'd love to send them to you via BookMooch so I can get the points. If you are not a member of BookMooch, that's okay as well. I can send them without getting BookMooch points.

*By the way, I've used BookMooch for years, and it's worked almost perfectly for me (with only one exception). I continue to use it and like it.

By the way, if there are any LTers within the DC/MD/VA/PA area, I'd highly recommend your coming to the Gaithersburg Book Festival in Gaithersburg, Maryland, tomorrow (Saturday, May 17, 2014). Festivities and parking are free.

I'll be there at a BookCrossing booth with other Bookcrossers. We will be giving away over 1,200 gently used books FREE of charge. You can look for me there. I'll be wearing my "SqueakyChu" button! Please stop by to say hi to me.

>37 SqueakyChu: That's perfectly fine - they're your books, sweetie! :)

I am releasing my copy of The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton to a good home. Please PM me if you would like it.

Spoken for!

Available for readers in the US only (APO okay). See Msg #37. The tutored read for the following book can be found here. If interested, please send me a private message with your mailing address.
1. Clermont by Regina Maria Roche

ETA: Not requested as of 7/9/12 so offer retracted.

I wish I could ship overseas, but the cost is too much for my budget. Available for any US address:

Funeral Games Mary REnault
Sula Toni Morrison
The Last Detective Peter Lovesey
Faithful unto Death Caroline Graham
Under the Covers and Between the Sheets Alan Joyce
The St. Valentine's Day Murders Ruth Dudley Edwards
Carnage on the Committee Ruth Dudley Edwards
The Kalahari Typing School for Men Alexander McCall Smith
The Black Death Robert Gottfried
Nine Tailors Dorothy Sayers
Losing Battles Eudora Welty--available second week of June

This is such a lovely idea. Unfortunately international shipping is horrendously expensive so I won't be able to join in but I'm really glad to see so many people willing to give away books to good homes. Warms my heart.

I am releasing Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee from my library. If you would like it, please PM me.

I am giving my copy of The Historian to a good home. PM me if you would like it.

I've never tried shipping internationally, but I'll take all your advice that the cost is prohibitive.

I've got a great fun one to offer:

Enchanted, Inc.

Send me a PM if you'd like it, as I rarely see this thread!

Oh. And I'm in the US.

>46 TinaV95: Oh, Enchanted, Inc. is fun! I encourage someone to ask for it.

I've updated my spreadsheet of books available to a good home.