Okay, I'm liking BookMooch: a community for exchanging used books much better than BookCrossing so far. The local community and "random acts of kindness" aspects of BookCrossing are pretty appealing, but it's hard to feel part of a Whuffie economy when you never find any books for yourself and no one finds the books you leave out (or at least they don't visit the website to update the tracking if they do find one).
By contrast, I joined BookMooch last week, and today received my first book, with two more on the way--and I've already sent out two. I have emailed with a user in Austria, who doesn't mind the postage to send me a book. Interactivity abounds!

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Posted by erik to HipSmart at 8/15/2006 03:07:08 PM