Here’s a great idea, BookSwim.com, allows you to borrow books similar to Netflix. You pay a monthly fee and they mail you the next book or books in your cue. Once you finish reading them, put the books back in the shipping package, mail it back and you’ll get the next book in the mail.
BookSwim is the first online BOOK RENTAL LIBRARY CLUB lending you paperbacks and hardcovers directly to your house WITHOUT THE NEED TO PURCHASE! Whether it’s New Releases, Bestsellers, or Classics, we’ve got 150,000 titles to choose from, with FREE SHIPPING BOTH WAYS! Read your books as long as you want. — no late fees! Even choose to purchase and keep the titles you love!
I tried the site the other day and it was pretty much down due to the huge surge in traffic they’ve been getting from the media publicity – they were also looking for investors – probably to increase their server capacity.
I hope to take a look at it and see if it’s worth the investment for the books I normally read – because as I’ve mentioned before, the Waxahachie Library never has anything I’m looking for.
Of course the downside is, you’re borrowing the books and not keeping them so my habit of underlining and making notes may have to end – I always have trouble with that anytime I borrow a book from someone else.
