Register books you've read which you would like to swap, then look what's been registered by other users and swap. All for free, only for the cost of posting the book. Let's hope it'll stay like that and that google & co won't buy this one up as well.
Of course there's one problem: I signed up, really keen to get one particular book. Instead, I've swapped two other books just because I was so excited and wanted to get started. Now my library of swappable books is a bit poor (I'm quite precious about most of my books) and I stand no chance. Ah well, look forward to the other two books though! I can just see how I'll end up reading books I would otherwise never have read, while still maintaining my usual Amazon wishlist (see right, just in case anyone wants to get me something nice for my birthday next weekend
).Another great new discovery is the freecycle movement - local free exchange egroups where you can get rid of your stuff and get stuff for free that others no longer need. Unfortunately there's been some trademarking scuffle internationally and also for the local Glasgow egroup, so that they now call themselves freeshare to keep things going as unburocratically as possible. Let's hope that the original freecycle doesn't go down the drain of commercialism and corporate sell out. Instead, it should continue to use the internet to make life easier and people happier. So far, I haven't actually received anything, but it's the greatest pleasure to do someone a favour by giving something that otherwise would have been swallowed by another black bin bag.