Paperback Swap

Swaptree.com is better as far as selection also you can trade video games, CD's, and DVD's.

between swaptree and paperbackswap i've completed over 50 trades... there have only been three or four titles i have wanted but not been able to get my hands on, and to be fair they've all be recently published or are multi-volume collections. its been a great way to clean house of books that have been gathering dust in storage.

Mirkah always recommends bookmooch (at least that's what I think it's called). Maybe she'll come in here and post... *hint hint*

less than an hour after i signed up, i got rid of two books. i have tons of books just lying around.

Two weeks later..

www.bookmooch.com

I love them! It's international, you can swap all over the world, or just domestically. You can also donate points to worthy causes that promote literacy. The interface is great, too.

I'll check out swaptree. I kinda hate paperbackswap. I don't like the way it's organized, the way the hold a book for 48 hours and all the emails they send. I belong to it just to broaden my chances of getting a book.

swaptree is convenient. list what you've got that you'd like to swap away, books, cd's and dvd's all in one place. then form a want list. for each item you list you can view every potential item you can get if you choose to swap it, or sit back and let swaptree notify you of matches and trades for the item on your want list. they even do three-way trading, incase someone who has an item you'd like doesn't want anything you've got to offer; they automatically find a third person to bride the gap.

i've been impressed

you're right about paperbackswap, they could use a serious site-redesign. they are pretty good about fulfulling all but my most obscure wish list demands, though.

paperback swap works on a credits system. each book you trade, you earn a credit towards any other book available in the system. it's not a one for one simultaneous trade like swaptree.

when i signed up, they gave me three credits just for joining. im not sure if they're still doing that, but three free books alone was nice. i've had no issues using my credits or swapping with them, except for the ugly interface.

Thanks for all the information, tourist. I might join swaptree, but I am more accustomed to the credits system at this point which both bookmooch and paperbackswap use.

At bookmooch you earn 1/10 of a point for every book you list to swap. You also get 1/10 point for leaving feedback on a transaction.

You get one point for sending a domestic swap, 3 points for international.

A domestic book costs 1 point, an international, 2

Another thing that annoys me about Paperbackswap is how they practically yell at you before allowing you to post a book! They make you check off that box that says, Yes, I REALLY can post. Then when you agree to mail a book, you get yet another accusing pop up , like, "Really you can, YOU PROMISE??"

I'm exaggerating, yes, slightly, but I dislike being treated like an idiot or a dishonest person.

On bookmooch:

I've mailed: 111 books (41 internationally)
I've received: 80 books (2 more on there way)

On papaerbackswap:

I've mailed: 36
I've received: 43

You get three free credits for joining. After that, you get a credit for each book you send. You can buy credits at paperbackswap, too. That's another reason I don't like it.

so if you get 1 credit for each book you send wouldn't that still be a one for one kind of deal?

paperback swap works on a credits system. each book you trade, you earn a credit towards any other book available in the system. it's not a one for one simultaneous trade like swaptree.

Yes, but you can hold onto your credits until a book you want shows up. At swaptree, you have to wait for a direct exchange.

ahhhhh now i see said the blind man.

Anyone have extra paperbackswap points they'd like to trade for bookmooch points?

i'd totally do that again but im down to 1 pbs point. if it were bookmooch points you were after i could help a bit. the day i joined 20 of my books were requested

Thanks anyway, Berto! It's so much easier for me to get points at bookmooch for some reason. Maybe because I ship internationally. I used my last PB S credit yesterday to get The Minimalist Cooks at Home by Mark Bittman. I just like to have a couple of points there. I'll list some books on PBS if no one comes through with a swap.