Wow, so I have advocated Paperbackswap now for, well, I think years! I recently signed up for the Box-O-Books. I thought: Great- now I can get books even if I don't have credits! At first I was disappointed :( People wanted to trade my good kids books for unappealing Romance novels. (YuCk!- I don't like Romance books, could ya tell?? Unless they are ones like the few you see up top of my stack in the picture below- but I really don't consider those Romance..)
I got my box of books today and WOW! I feel a bit ashamed that I asked for so many now. Other than 4 of the books in the picture here, those are what they sent. I cannot figure out how much shipping was because it is in stamps with a lot of heavy postmarks all over them. But I can tell it had to be a pretty penny! I am so thankful!!
So after about 6 offers to trade for those type books I was thinking I made a big mistake. And that's always sad...
I got a message about 2 weeks ago, however, from someone with good books! I was sooo excited, I just can't even tell you how excited. I went to their list and immediately found 21 books I wanted! They requested 24 of my Magic Treehouse books (actually- ALL of them- I only had 24). After thinking about it, I thought that it wasn't really fair of me to ask them to trade bigger, heavier, hardback (some) books in exchange for my books. I whittled down my choices to 12 and thought that was good. I paid $3 some for shipping to them.
I got my box of books today and WOW! I feel a bit ashamed that I asked for so many now. Other than 4 of the books in the picture here, those are what they sent. I cannot figure out how much shipping was because it is in stamps with a lot of heavy postmarks all over them. But I can tell it had to be a pretty penny! I am so thankful!!
But those are my Paperbackswap books delivered to me in the last two weeks.
On one transaction with another wonderful swapper, I requested one book but she had another that I really wanted- but I didn't have enough credits to request it. I asked if she would be willing to send it along with the other one I requested...I expected a nice apology but no. She said YES! It was so kind of her!
So I just wanted to share my excitement with my Paperbackswap deliveries and to let others know that may not know about this service. It is a great wonderful way to build up your library! And if you have books that you no longer need, or want, you list them and someone is almost guaranteed to want it.
***Disclaimer: The links are 'affiliate' links. While I do not receive cash compensation, I could receive credits if you sign up for this service. You really should check it out!***
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