December 3rd, 2007 · 2 Comments
But for most of those who’ve signed on to BookMooch, the environmental benefit of keeping books out of landfills is likely a byproduct, not a primary motivation — it comes from thinking of a book not as a dead hunk of paper, but as a living thing that was created by someone, has a reason to exist, and can enrich others’ lives after playing its part in our own.
That’s the kind of thinking that makes conservation not a chore but a way of life. By helping avid readers feed their habit by giving books away, entities like BookMooch expand the ways in which reusing consumer goods can be almost as easy as (and a lot more fun than) curbside recycling.
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1 Article on BM at Green Right Now.com « BookMooch Blog // Dec 3, 2007 at 5:23 pm
[...] really well researched, thoughtful article about swapping/trading, with a strong focus on BookMooch, was published today at Green Right [...]
2 lucy41 // Dec 5, 2007 at 1:41 pm
great article. one site that does it all, that you somehow left out is http://www.swaptree.com.
There you can trade cds, dvds, video games and books, for free. And no confusing points. Straight up trading.
Heres a good video on how it works:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbCdhbXdsik
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