BookMooch really dying now?

Haven't had any activity for months. Wondering if BookMooch is really at the end of its useful life now. No books moving in my account and nothing has been upgraded in forever. Sigh.

I mooched 2 books this month and had 4 mooched from me. Not dying, but slowing down from a few years ago.

I haven't found anything for a while now- any book on my wish list that is available is in a language that I don't read.

I occasionally get emails with something on my wishlist, but I have too many books here at home to request more. The books I really want are almost never offered on BookMooch, or I would request those. I don't keep any inventory listed as I prefer not to mail books out any more unless it's in exchange for a book I really, really want.

I'm using the site less frequently, too. I still mooch occasionally when prompted to by a wishlist notification, but those findings are mostly old or uncommon books -- most of my general reading has switched to the digital form.

I have a healthy bank of points still in my account, and I haven't need to add books to my inventory for a while now.

I'm still trying to spend down my points reserve. Except for 1 angel mooch a year a half ago I haven't sent any books out since early 2013.

I was going to say my mooching has slowed down a lot too, (I mean, it has,) but when I actually look at my history I've mooched more than I thought I had in the past few years. Some good ones too, so I guess it's still ticking for me though I've had no transaction complete yet this year (I have a pending that I suspect will become a cancel in a few weeks).

Because I'm not sending anything out I don't feel as engaged, I suppose. I used to constantly check to be sure packages arrived safely, but now I just log in a couple of times a month to clean the wishlist and show I'm active.

One of my mooches was rejected because of the high postal rate to send to Canada from the US-I really haven't see much action for 2 years now.

>8 SqueakyChu: I think the increase in postage rates has all but killed international mooching. At least there is still affordable media mail rates within the United States, but that does not help you. :(

I'm not getting many books from Bookmooch but lately the ones I have been getting are pretty surprising, ones I've wanted for a long time that I never expected to see offered.

>9 susanbooks: Well, that's hopeful. I have a pretty long wishlist there still, and I wouldn't hesitate to request any of those books should they ever become available.

I was less active for a while, but now I'm getting a lot of board books for my baby daughter, plus a few here and there for myself. I still have occasional mooch requests from me too, especially when I post new stuff. I'm doing a bit of a book purge again, so I've been posting more books this year than I have in a while. The used bookstores in my area don't buy or trade books with customers, so it's either post them for swap, sell them in a yard sale (when I can manage to have one), or donate to charity shops or library sales.

I've had three emails from BM lately telling me books from my list were available, and I mooched them all. Two were from overseas. I wondered if there'd been a change in policy regarding alerting members to books available.

I don't think there's been a change in anything on BM for a long time. The policy on alerting members doesn't seem different to me. It may be that as the site has less activity, the remaining members will have less competition for any particular book on their wishlists and thereby see more notifications. I've actually had a tiny bit of activity since I started this thread, enough to still check in once in a while.

I both get and give between 5-10 books a month, often shared between the same handful of moochers; I guess those are the folks I have the most in common with. It's very difficult to discipline myself even when my TBR is ridiculously huge - I try to limit myself to only mooching when I receive wishlist notifications, but still often find myself browsing the recent additions...

I know there are quite a few on my wishlist that I will probably never get, but it is a convenient way to keep track of stuff I'm looking for, and I use it to make my shopping list when a binge is imminent. :D

I'm sorting out books and have started posting again and gotten several requests in the last few weeks. I certainly hope BookMooch is not dying. Many of my books are too old to have ISBNs and it seems that PaperBackSwap only indexes on ISBNs and does not match titles, so I decided recently to make BookMooch my primary listing site. I have so many books that I am less concerned with getting books than having the ones I no longer want go to people who do want them (so I'll have space for more new ones). The two things that really frustrate me about BookMooch are the crazy (?random) assignment of topics when you list from an Amazon search and the inability to add any sort of book description if Amazon doesn't supply one. (I am the sort of dinosaur who prefers real books to e-books.)