Bookmooch: New Life for Old Books

August 8, 2006 9:06 AM

Bookmooch officially launched a few days ago. It's a site that facilitates trading books with other members of the site. It has various ways to enter in books in your library, and it has nice integration with Amazon. Definitely check out the bookmarklet that you can use when browsing amazon to automatically check if the book is available to "mooch".
posted by RustyBrooks (9 comments total)

I joined the site when it was in "alpha" testing. Since then a lot of improvements have been made, most importantly to my eye is the ability to more easily bulk-import the library of books you are making available to mooch. It has only been live a few days but there is already a pretty impressive collection of books available.
posted by RustyBrooks at 9:07 AM on August 8, 2006

http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/53685
posted by Sully at 9:09 AM on August 8, 2006

just scroll down a bit on the front page.
posted by timory at 9:09 AM on August 8, 2006

Aw, jesus. Sorry.
posted by RustyBrooks at 9:11 AM on August 8, 2006

I have 1200 books in my collection but I find the paperbacks are impossible to shelve... they waste so much space. So all the better.

I do wonder if the Amazon Marketplace hucksters who charge $150 for used books with low availability will go in there and start picking off all the hard-to-find books.
posted by rolypolyman at 9:18 AM on August 8, 2006

Another thought -- I notice they're tapping the Amazon database as a lookup tool for adding titles. That seems kind of provocative considering the site takes business away from Amazon.
posted by rolypolyman at 9:25 AM on August 8, 2006

posted by cenoxo at 9:49 AM on August 8, 2006

That seems kind of provocative

the mooch aint for nothing.
posted by eustatic at 9:55 AM on August 8, 2006

The parasitic bookmarklet is an interesting component that I didn't catch in the previous post.
posted by StickyCarpet at 10:05 AM on August 8, 2006