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There's something wonderful and human about connecting users to exchange physical things. It reminds me of geocaching - swapping items of interest, sharing experiences. An antidote to the paranoia and distrust we live under these days.
Since we're talking actual physical books here, how are newly published books acquired and introduced into the trading system? Oh. Someone, or rather someone Else, has to actually Buy them first. With like... money. eww.
Forget books, lets just skip ahead and do this with houses and cars cuz i need one of each of those. And in return for someone giving me a free house and car i'll trade you um... One Red Paper Clip, deal?
1. Impulse-buy on Amazon, pay full retail and feel like I wasted money,
2. Wishlist it on amazon and never look at it again OR
3. Put it into my Bookmooch wishlist. At some point it'll become available and I'll get it sent to me, like magic.
So it's a trick to manage the impulse-buy instinct. Of course there are these things called "libraries" too
Libraries are for communists
which is why libraries are AWESOME.
BookMooch seems a lot like craigslist, an idea implemented by a geek, who already has enough money, to solve a problem that the market does not seem to be able to solve efficiently.
I'm using swaptree these days, which I like even better than bookmooch. It has 3 and 4 way trades, all media types, and it's basically immediate gratification, not accruing points.