Bottom Of The Barrel

Mooch a book

If you are an avid reader and are not sure what to do with all those books once you have read them, try Mooching. Book Mooch is a web site for exchanging used books that you no longer need in exchange for books you really want.


The clever part of the site is the point system. In order to mooch books from others, you need to earn points which you use up as you get free books from other people. You earn points when you add your book inventory, give away books and respond to mooch requests. You use up points when you mooch books or when you give your points away to charities. Here is the point system breakdown:

Add a book to inventory + 1/10th
Give away book (within your country) + 1
Give away book (to another country) + 3
Mooch a book (within your country) - 1
Mooch a book (from another country) - 2
Acknowledge receiving a book you mooched + 1/10th

Over the past year, their membership has grown by 90k and at the same time a total of almost 1 million books have been mooched. Interestingly enough, the number of members who have shipped a book is almost 10k more than the number of members who have received a book so I guess this community is made up of givers.

I can't wait for my first book to arrive and for the first book I shipped [today] to get to it's destination.

Labels: Books, Internet

posted by TheWino @ 12:43 PM