Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
ATLANTA, June 11 /PRNewswire/ -- PaperBackSwap.com, an innovative web site that allows the public to recycle used books, launched two sister sites, SwapaCD.com and SwapaDVD.com, due to demand from club members.
The Thinking Mother (Free subscription) | 05/30/2008
PaperBackSwap.com (PBS) is a website with free membership. You list books easily and quickly into the system that you are willing to give away to other people. When someone wants your book you are notified by email of it. You print off the shipping label on your computer’s printer. You mail the book out via media mail at your expense. That earns you one credit. With one credit you may choose to receive...
The Thinking Mother (Free subscription) | 03/19/2008
PaperBackSwap's inventory of free books is close to two million! They are running a contest for members to try to pinpoint exactly when the two millionth book is listed. If you are a member and want to play, go read the details of how to enter your guess! I have been swapping books on PBS for almost two years! If you want more information about PaperBackSwap, click on this link. After you list nine...
Wired For Noise (Free subscription) | 12/27/2007
I just joined a new group online and I have to share. It's called Zwaggle and it's almost like PaperBackSwap and Freecycle met and had a child. A hippie child that encourages sharing resources for love. Zwaggle was created with our own families in mind. We value neighborhood and conservation, and envision an online community that [...]
Wired For Noise (Free subscription) | 12/17/2007
On Friday a book that was meant to be a Christmas gift came in the mail. But me being me couldn't wait and immediately opened it up for Evan to enjoy. I was originally excited when I found A Child's Garden of Verses at PaperBackSwap and swiped it up. I expected to get an older book, [...]
Open Culture (Free subscription) | 10/25/2007
After we mentioned Book Mooch last week, one of our faithful readers alerted us to another site — PaperBackSwap.com. PaperBackSwap is reportedly easier to use than Book Mooch, and the actual process of exchanging books runs more smoothly. Meanwhile, despite the site’s name, you can swap both paperback and hardback books there. In case you [...]
Beam in on this, will you? (Free subscription) | 09/21/2007
You guys know what's awesome? PaperBackSwap.Com is awesome. Basically, you post books that you're willing to give away, and eventually other members request them. You send your books off to those members, and for each book you send you get a credit. For each credit, you can order your own free book from all the books posted on the site. All you have to pay for is shipping the books you send out, which...
SusiePie (Free subscription) | 07/25/2007
Today makes two whole years that I have been a member at PaperBackSwap . According to their calculator thingy, I have saved $1,000 over these last two years; meaning, if I had purchased the books at regular price that I received from other members at PaperBackSwap, I would have spent $1,000. That's pretty cool, huh? My to-be-read pile has grown exponentially since I joined the club. I just can't say...
PaperBackSwap.com (Free subscription) | 05/07/2007
Robert C. Benchley's sketches and articles, published in periodicals like Life , Vanity Fair , and The New Yorker , earned him a reputation as one of the sharpest humorists of his time; his influence--on contemporaries such as E. B. White, James Thurber, and S. J. Perelman, or followers like Woody Allen, Steve Martin, and Richard Pryor--has left an indelible mark on the American comic tradition. The...
PaperBackSwap.com (Free subscription) | 05/07/2007
A new arrival to America, Irish artist Maureen O'Rourke is commissioned to paint watercolors at a Lousiana cotton plantation. There, she spies a man in the woods-a proud and noble Chitimacha chief. He is called Racing Moon, and Maureen longs to capture his beauty on canvas. But when the chief returns her admiration, their newfound passion ignites the rage of Maureen's employer...Racing Moon's bitterest...
PaperBackSwap.com (Free subscription) | 05/07/2007
In an adventurous sequel to THE MALLOREAN, David Eddings tells the story of King Garion's abducted infant son and his efforts to save him. Unfortunately, he and his friends are detained by the friendly, but determined Zakath, who refuses to let them leave. As a horde of demons ravage the Cities and a plague lets loose its terrors, Garion has little time left to reach his destination, or the kidnapper...
PaperBackSwap.com (Free subscription) | 05/07/2007
Dean Koontz has surpassed his longtime reputation as “America’s most popular suspense novelist”( Rolling Stone ) to become one of the most celebrated and successful writers of our time. Reviewers hail his boundless originality, his art, his unparalleled ability to create highly textured, riveting drama, at once viscerally familiar and utterly unique. Author of one #1 New York Times bestseller after...
PaperBackSwap.com (Free subscription) | 05/07/2007
The national bestselling saga from the stunning imagination of Robert Silverberg continues in the first new hardcover Majipoor novel in nearly a decade. As a prequel to Silverberg's earlier Majipoor novels. Sorcerers of Majipoor provides a deep, dark vision for the background of the conflict inLord Valentine's Castle and Valentine Pontifex. Treachery and wizardry run rampant under the reign of the...
PaperBackSwap.com (Free subscription) | 05/07/2007
"In an earlier life, McCrumb must have been a balladeer, singing of restless spirits, star-crossed lovers, and the consoling beauty of nature. . . . The overall effect is spellbinding." --The Washington Post Bestselling author Sharyn McCrumb is "a born storyteller" (Mary Higgins Clark) who astonishes readers and reviewers with the power and scope of her talent, prompting the San Diego Union-Tribune...
PaperBackSwap.com (Free subscription) | 05/07/2007
Jan Karon's millions of fans can't wait to sit down with her heartwarming and hilarious characters, who have a way of becoming family. In A New Song , Mitford's longtime Episcopal priest, Father Tim, retires. However, new challenges and adventures await when he agrees to serve as interim minister of a small church on Whitecap Island. He and his wife, Cynthia, soon find that Whitecap has its own unforgettable...
