Get your college books free
On the heels of Freecycle's success comes 2Swap, a new website dedicated to helping you pass your old books into loving hands, while receiving books of your choice for free. Although its newness has not produced many text books, it would be a keen source for classics and modern literature, as well as providing for your guilty pleasure reading.
Simply create a free account and list some books you wouldn't mind sending out. For your first 10, you'll get three credits; that's three free books. Once you find one you want, just click "want it" and the owner will mail it to you at their expense, using a postage label you can print from the site.
In return for the postage, the owner receives a credit; in the end, you come out even, only ever having paid a dollar or two. There's nothing better than free books (well, assuming no one is giving out free beer).
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3-31-2008 @ 12:19PM
Lewis said...
This sounds spot-on www.bookmooch.com
I would recommend checking it out, because they have a huge collection and community already in place.
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4-04-2008 @ 9:10PM
Danika said...
Bookmooch also has the advantage of being international.
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9-08-2008 @ 1:42AM
Mo said...
To all college students... The time is now to stop buying these expensive college books and start saving by trading your textbooks online at WWW.TEXTFORTEXT.COM. The best part is that you can do this absolutely free. Just log on to www.textfortext.com And start saving... Don't feel discouraged if you can't find your book at first. Just remember the more students that register, the better the chance for you to find the book you need. Therefore, be sure to forward this message to all your friends and classmates.
Why BUY when you can TRADE!!!
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10-19-2008 @ 11:07PM
jeannie said...
Do not, repeat DO NOT join the 2swap site!! I am a member there and the site is full of problems that they say they are fixing yet after nearly 2 months still nothing has changed. They have stopped answering emails reporting the problems and when they did answer it was always with a form email. Founder Todd Beck obviously is not keeping a close eye on his site or IF he is he just doesn't care. After listing books and giving many away (37 which is the top number of all members) after saving my points up to get the books I wanted I have been ripped off by someone new who joined and the 2swap team is doing nothing to refund my credits. I am so frustrated about this, the site itself is just a mess, you can't get very far into it without the site just shutting down, I just cannot warn everyone to stay away from this site. it is still in Beta and honestly, I doubt it ever gets much farther.!
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