My new favorite website
Book Mooch
I've found a renewed interest in reading lately. In the last two months I've read five books. More in such a short period than I ever have before. I decided to start reading award winning sci fi books as a starting point so I started with these:
Neuromancer
Ender's game
Speaker for the dead
Ringworld
Starship troopers
Right now I'm working my way through the first book in the wheel of time series, the eye of the world. So far I haven't been disappointed with any of them.
Buying new books seemed kind of silly since I am reading stuff that's been published long ago. I bought most of these books at used stores with the exception of the ender books. Then just this week I found Book Mooch.
Book Mooch is sort of a roundabout trading site. I post books I own on the site and people request them. I mail the books to them, paying for shipping myself (~2.80 per book so far) and earn points on the site which I then spend to request books from others. I posted 10 books on the site and overnight got requests for six of them. I have three more books from others on the way for me. The website and search could use some work but otherwise the concept behind it is brilliant.
Edit: I wish someone would write an iPhone app for livejournal or that livejournal would make their site more iPhone friendly...
I've found a renewed interest in reading lately. In the last two months I've read five books. More in such a short period than I ever have before. I decided to start reading award winning sci fi books as a starting point so I started with these:
Neuromancer
Ender's game
Speaker for the dead
Ringworld
Starship troopers
Right now I'm working my way through the first book in the wheel of time series, the eye of the world. So far I haven't been disappointed with any of them.
Buying new books seemed kind of silly since I am reading stuff that's been published long ago. I bought most of these books at used stores with the exception of the ender books. Then just this week I found Book Mooch.
Book Mooch is sort of a roundabout trading site. I post books I own on the site and people request them. I mail the books to them, paying for shipping myself (~2.80 per book so far) and earn points on the site which I then spend to request books from others. I posted 10 books on the site and overnight got requests for six of them. I have three more books from others on the way for me. The website and search could use some work but otherwise the concept behind it is brilliant.
Edit: I wish someone would write an iPhone app for livejournal or that livejournal would make their site more iPhone friendly...