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Swap Books and Save Money
Smart internet users are
finding out there is a better and cheaper way to get hold of books
than spending a small fortune on new hardback and paperback
novels. At an average cost of $25 for a new hardback and around $8
for a paperback novel, reading can work out to be a pretty
expensive hobby for those of us who love books. In these harsh
economic times, who can afford an expensive hobby?
Well,
actually we can give thanks to the brilliant minds behind book
swapping and trading websites!
Bartering
is a form of trade which quite possibly dates back to caveman
times but is making a big comeback thanks to the joys of the
global communication medium which we like to call the internet.
Book
bartering is alive and kicking online with sites like
paperbackswap.com in the United States and readitswapit.co.uk in
the UK offering up millions of books ready to be swapped amongst
the thousands of book lovers who have already joined these sites
for free and made their unwanted books available for trading.
Using
these sites, you can get new books to read for just the cost of
one book of your own and the postage to send it to another eager
reader. For sending out books you no longer want, you earn
credits, and those credits can then be used to request books from
other members of the site.
Effectively,
you are trading your books on a one for one basis and getting new
books for the cost of media mail postage. For a typical paperback
or hardback book, that works out at a couple of bucks which is a
vast improvement over $8 - $25 for buying new.
Book
swapping is easy, fun and you can also wrap yourself in the warm
fuzzy feeling which comes from the knowledge you are doing your
bit to help the environment.
Think
how many trees are not being cut down, or how many acres of
rainforest being preserved by the reuse and recycling of books
going on through used book swapping sites. One site has over 2.5
million books ready for swapping. That’s a lot of trees!
So book
lovers of the world unite and get sharing your old books with like
minded readers across the globe today!
~ by Mark Falco. Article courtesy of Amazines.
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