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Posted: June 19 2010 at 8:32pm | IP Logged Quote robinhigh

I just learned about this from Dakotamidnights post on the 10 top must haves... anyone else here a member? What has been your experience?

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I'm off to check it right now.

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Posted: June 21 2010 at 12:42pm | IP Logged Quote Donna Marie

I have just started this..I will let you know...I am mailing out a few books this week. I also use paperback swap and that is fun too!

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Posted: June 21 2010 at 2:15pm | IP Logged Quote jillian

That's awesome!!! I literally have 2 20gallon rubbermaid totes full to the brim with books (and that's organized neatly)
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Posted: June 21 2010 at 5:41pm | IP Logged Quote dakotamidnight

Why don't we all add our Bookmooch names so we can browse each other's books?

I'm Sandygirl on bookmooch.

I've been a member since the end of February, and I've mailed out nearly 400 books and gotten about the same back. I actively look for books wanted by others on bookmooch that are kids books as I can get them cheap at my local thrift shop {10/$1} and they are lightweight to ship.

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Posted: June 21 2010 at 6:17pm | IP Logged Quote robinhigh

I'm "Robin High" and I've been on Bookmooch for two days. I have 13 books going out and 2 coming in.
I have about 170 on my wish list.
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robinhigh wrote:
I have about 170 on my wish list.



This is what I'm afraid of!

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I'm "Robin High" and I've been on Bookmooch for two days. I have 13 books going out and 2 coming in.
I have about 170 on my wish list.


170 on the wish list is small - I've got around 1600. A lot of those are various versions of a single title - sometimes I have 20 different copies of the same book on my wish list so that I don't miss any copy that posts.

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I'm "me3rd"... I don't have a ton of stuff up there since I do frequent purging... but I'll be rethinking that!

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I have to say, I don't really understand their division of categories...I go to "short stories" and a lot of what I see is novels...I go to "children's" and I see a lot of NOT children's books?
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Okay, I joined...I'm AZLori, but there's probably not much there on my list anybody here would be interested in...I guess it's much easier if you just do a search instead of by category?
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Posted: June 22 2010 at 6:36pm | IP Logged Quote Donna Marie

I have been searching by book title and author for books that I have wanted for awhile, but just didn't have the budget to get. I used various homeschooling lists to compile my wish list. My wishlist at paperback swap is full!

I am purging and listing other books as quickly as I can. Right now I am tappclan at bookmooch.

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Lori wrote:
I have to say, I don't really understand their division of categories...I go to "short stories" and a lot of what I see is novels...I go to "children's" and I see a lot of NOT children's books?


their category system really doesn't work - it is borrowed from Amazon and all the data for it is from them.

The best way I've found is to search Amazon for what you want, then use the bookmooch moochbar to easily mooch it at bookmooch.

I use the Amazon recommendations, browse them, then mooch as available.

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Okay, I joined...I'm AZLori, but there's probably not much there on my list anybody here would be interested in...I guess it's much easier if you just do a search instead of by category?


Actually I just mooched two books from you!

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One thing to watch out for at Bookmooch... if you have a wish list item come in, it is not just reserved for you. A message goes out to everyone who has that book on their list, and then the race is on. I have missed out on a couple of my wish list books now because someone else was faster.

That is both good and bad. You don't have to wait in line when you add a book to your wishlist, which is good if you are lucky and quick. OTOH, you might not ever get the book if a lot of people also want it.

At Paperback Swap you do have to wait your turn on line, but then once a wish list item arrives, it is held for you for several days.

Pros and cons

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Posted: June 22 2010 at 8:57pm | IP Logged Quote Lori

Donna Marie...how funny that we are both offering the same "Pledge of Allegiance" book!

And dakotamidnight (aka sandygirl!)--glad some books were helpful to you and found a good home! :-)
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Melinda, good points to consider.
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SeaStar wrote:
One thing to watch out for at Bookmooch... if you have a wish list item come in, it is not just reserved for you. A message goes out to everyone who has that book on their list, and then the race is on. I have missed out on a couple of my wish list books now because someone else was faster.

That is both good and bad. You don't have to wait in line when you add a book to your wishlist, which is good if you are lucky and quick. OTOH, you might not ever get the book if a lot of people also want it.

At Paperback Swap you do have to wait your turn on line, but then once a wish list item arrives, it is held for you for several days.

Pros and cons


You can use an RSS reader to help improve your odds of getting a wish listed item - I keep Google Reader open in a tab, and refresh it every hour or so which gets me quite a few that I never get the emails for.

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Does it get overloaded on the server often? I was on the site and it started to get reallllllllllllly slow, and now it can't "load the page"...maybe more people on it at night? Has this ever happened to anyone else?
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The best way I've found is to search Amazon for what you want, then use the bookmooch moochbar to easily mooch it at bookmooch.

I use the Amazon recommendations, browse them, then mooch as available. [/QUOTE]

What is a "moochbar"?
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