Be a Mooch

Posted At : March 1, 2007 5:40 PM | Posted By : Derek Toten
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I'm a Moocher. I admit it. But that's OK.

It's BookMooch - something I picked up on at LibraryThing. It's very simple... you list the books you have and no longer want, which gives you the right to peruse everyone else's list of unwanted books. If you see something you like, you notify the lister and he sends it to you. Of course, it works the other way too - if someone wants one of your books, you send it to them. No money ever changes hands. BookMooch assigns points, tracks the transactions, and generally keeps everyone honest.

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LibraryThing!

Posted At : January 7, 2007 2:31 AM | Posted By : Derek Toten
Related Categories: social computing,2007Jan,new media,LibraryThing,Web 2.0,2007,all-entries

Clay, always a step ahead, has just reminded me of a site I visited once and never really examined closely. LibraryThing is absolutely fantastic!

This is what Clay had to say about LibraryThing.

I've already begun to catalog my vast biblio holdings. The pace will really pickup when my hand held barcode scanner arrives. LibraryThing very cleverly cross-coordinates the book's ISBN code with the Library of Congress and Amazon.com to fill in all your information, even a pic of the cover. There's actually an interesting story behind the scanner LibraryThing offers. Once again, courtesy of Clay, the scanner story. It's worth a read.

And in case you're curious: Derek's Library (a work in progress)