Posts Tagged with ‘Bookcrossing’

Are you a bookworm? Does your budget for dead trees and new ideas exceed your means? Do you have a jones for reading that rivals the national debt in expense? BookMooch is here to help.
Other services offer related services. Most notable of these is BookCrossing, combing a love of books, a need for books on a budget and scavenger hunts in one web application. What do you do if you don't have the time or inclination to go digging [...]

There are some days when I have to buy into the idea posed by a recent commenter that Web 2.0 is a joke. Not everything needs to be online, but there are some folks who apparently think everything from writing letters to blowing your nose needs to be 2.0-enabled. Apparently, this was the driving force behind BookSwim, which is positioning itself as a Netflix-type service for books.
BookSwim follows a similar pricing structure to Netflix's, with 150,000 titles available 3 at [...]