Online Book Swap Communities


Illustration: Wesley Bedrosian

The Wall Street Journal tests out four websites dedicated to exchanging books in Online Swap Meets for Books. The article describes how each community works and also provides a useful matrix at the end comparing setup, experience, cost, and providing comments. The websites discussed include:

Paperbackswap.com
Swaptree.com
Bookmooch.com
Bookins.com

via Library Stuff

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One Response to “Online Book Swap Communities”

  1. Magalie Says:
    August 25th, 2008 at 5:35 pm

    The site [un] library : http://www.unlibrary.com/ is quite good too for book swap and you can keep track of issues/ returns and reserves + there’s a mashup with Google maps.

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