# 2nd Annual Summer Book Exchange **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 29, 2014, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2nd-annual-summer-book-exchange/694334 "2014-07-29T16:15:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![jayrey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@jayrey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayrey)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2nd-annual-summer-book-exchange/694334/41 "2014-08-22T17:04:57Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > BTW, I looked on the USPS website. They still have “Media Rate” (used to be book rate) 10lbs is about $7.00. The rule is just media/books. If you add a note and they catch it, the price goes up, and in our cases, the receipent would have to pay the extra. Very true. When I mailed my book, I asked the PO staff person to recommend an appropriate sized envelope. He weighed the book and asked if I was going to include a card or note in the package. He said that if I did, I couldn’t mail using “media rate.” For a single paperback book, sending first class wasn’t onerous, but for several pounds of books, media rate would definitely be the way to go. (Don’t tell anybody but there was a little post-it note inside the book I sent.) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DZedNConfused](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dzednconfused/32/15991_2.png) [@DZedNConfused](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DZedNConfused)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2nd-annual-summer-book-exchange/694334/42 "2014-08-22T17:12:07Z")
Which I nearly missed… My experience is as long as you just don’t mention it, they will never know that there is a note inside. ---
**Author:** ![Grrlbrarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrlbrarian/32/4048_2.png) [@Grrlbrarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrlbrarian)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2nd-annual-summer-book-exchange/694334/43 "2014-08-22T18:22:23Z")
Hey y’all! Apologies but I won’t be sending out mine til tomorrow. Had to move one of the Babybrarians into her college dorm this week. :eek: Can I have some of the kitten’s pain medication too? Also, I’m mailing media rate, so most likely there won’t be an enclosure. I’ll put my Doper name on the outside of the envelope and try to send a postcard separately. ---
**Author:** ![DZedNConfused](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dzednconfused/32/15991_2.png) [@DZedNConfused](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DZedNConfused)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2nd-annual-summer-book-exchange/694334/44 "2014-08-22T21:55:07Z")
Ninja kitty says only if you take this damn cone with you! 😃 Congrats on the college offspring, I think mine is just going to inhabit my desk chair until I die. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2nd-annual-summer-book-exchange/694334/45 "2014-08-22T22:23:01Z")
So I ordered the book off Amazon and had it sent to your address. I really hope this works and it should be there in a week or so! ---
**Author:** ![JoseB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/joseb/32/1530_2.png) [@JoseB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoseB)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2014, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2nd-annual-summer-book-exchange/694334/46 "2014-08-23T10:21:14Z")
**BLAST!!!** I didn’t see this thread until today! \>.\< I was in last year’s book exchange and I was wondering when would this year’s be… _sniffle_ Oh well… Next time I guess…! ☹ ---
**Author:** ![jayrey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@jayrey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayrey)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2014, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2nd-annual-summer-book-exchange/694334/47 "2014-08-23T14:49:35Z")
I’ll let **Sir T-Cups** make the official call, but if he’s willing to let you in, I’ll be happy to exchange books with you! **Sir T-Cups** , what say you? ---
**Author:** ![Grrlbrarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrlbrarian/32/4048_2.png) [@Grrlbrarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrlbrarian)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2014, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2nd-annual-summer-book-exchange/694334/48 "2014-08-23T15:01:48Z")
> [@DZedNConfused](#): > > Ninja kitty says only if you take this damn cone with you! 😃 > > Congrats on the college offspring, I think mine is just going to inhabit my desk chair until I die. If I can have the medicine, I’m willing to wear the cone on my head as a HAT. 🆒 Yep, t-minus 25 minutes and counting until departure. Let the frantic scrambling for co-axial cables and other detritus… commence! **Picunurse** , sorry to hear about the rotator cuff surgery for your hubs. I’ve heard that’s a rough one. :eek: Hope it works like a charm though. Oh, and package has been sent! 🙂 🙂 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2nd-annual-summer-book-exchange/694334/49 "2014-08-24T02:05:17Z")
> [@jayrey](#): > > I’ll let **Sir T-Cups** make the official call, but if he’s willing to let you in, I’ll be happy to exchange books with you! > > **Sir T-Cups** , what say you? That’s totally fine!! If you guys are ok with knowing who you are exchanging with then yeah! Hope you love it! ---
**Author:** ![jayrey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@jayrey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayrey)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2nd-annual-summer-book-exchange/694334/50 "2014-08-24T03:04:50Z")
Oh, JoseB and I are old friends from the Postcard Exchange. I don’t mind knowing if he doesn’t. Okay, tell what yer lookin’ fer bookwise? ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2nd-annual-summer-book-exchange/694334/51 "2014-08-24T03:15:53Z")
I sent out six books the other day. A pile of pretty good historical romances but I forgot any card. Sorry but the girls were about to destroy the post office and I had to get out of there as fast as possible. ---
**Author:** ![JoseB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/joseb/32/1530_2.png) [@JoseB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoseB)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2nd-annual-summer-book-exchange/694334/52 "2014-08-25T12:21:30Z")
> [@jayrey](#): > > Oh, JoseB and I are old friends from the Postcard Exchange. I don’t mind knowing if he doesn’t. Okay, tell what yer lookin’ fer bookwise? Hi, **jayrey**! Awesome! I like piña coladas and getting caught in the ra… Sorry 😛 OK, I like books about history (for instance military history), real crime, and generally things that are based on the real world. I am very fond of scientific divulgation. As an example of what I have been reading these days: - “The Smartest Guys in the Room” (about the Enron collapse). - “The tiger that isn’t” (about understanding statistics, correct interpretation of the data we are bombarded with everyday, and learning to know and avoid fallacies when dealing with data and numbers). - “De Madrid al Infierno” (the darker aspects of the history of the capital of Spain). And so on and so forth 🙂 But, really – I am a voracious reader, and I will read almost everything 🙂 So… I read about your preferences, and I think I found something that you might like 🙂 Please PM me your postal address! 😃 All the best, JoseB ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2nd-annual-summer-book-exchange/694334/53 "2014-08-25T14:37:46Z")
So, **Pai** I am really hoping you enjoy (or at least don’t hate) the book I sent you. It’s one of my favorites, and I guess it’s British Mystery in that it takes place in London and it involves a series of murders based in-and-around the discovery of DNA (Watson and Crick and all that) It’s probably categorized more under “historical fiction”, but it’s the best I could find under the circumstances ---
**Author:** ![jayrey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@jayrey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayrey)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2nd-annual-summer-book-exchange/694334/54 "2014-08-25T17:06:14Z")
**JoseB** , I sent you the PM. Now to start looking for just the right book for you! ---
**Author:** ![DZedNConfused](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dzednconfused/32/15991_2.png) [@DZedNConfused](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DZedNConfused)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2nd-annual-summer-book-exchange/694334/55 "2014-08-25T18:00:53Z")
I swear I have ordered my book to exchange… I just don’t know what Amazon is doing… not shipping is one thing they aren’t doing. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2nd-annual-summer-book-exchange/694334/56 "2014-08-26T12:17:25Z")
> [@DZedNConfused](#): > > I swear I have ordered my book to exchange… I just don’t know what Amazon is doing… not shipping is one thing they aren’t doing. No worries. I’m sure it’ll come. Just lemme know when you’ve sent it because checking the mailbox is a bitch and I don’t wanna do it if I don’t have to 😛 ---
**Author:** ![DZedNConfused](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dzednconfused/32/15991_2.png) [@DZedNConfused](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DZedNConfused)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2nd-annual-summer-book-exchange/694334/57 "2014-08-26T15:12:59Z")
I will, it shipped yesterday so should be here this weekend. ---
**Author:** ![jayrey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@jayrey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayrey)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2nd-annual-summer-book-exchange/694334/58 "2014-08-27T15:58:14Z")
I received a box full of books yesterday and I think they came from **LavenderBlue**! Thank you!! I dived immediately into Mark Kurlansky’s _The Big Oyster_. What a treat! The rest will make great Fall/Winter reading. Thanks again!! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2nd-annual-summer-book-exchange/694334/59 "2014-08-27T16:20:54Z")
Just mailed it! It’s not going far, just about 150 miles. It should get there by Saturday or Tuesday. No duplicates of what you have, I hope. ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2nd-annual-summer-book-exchange/694334/60 "2014-08-27T16:22:11Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > So, **Pai** I am really hoping you enjoy (or at least don’t hate) the book I sent you. > > It’s one of my favorites, and I guess it’s British Mystery in that it takes place in London and it involves a series of murders based in-and-around the discovery of DNA (Watson and Crick and all that) > > It’s probably categorized more under “historical fiction”, but it’s the best I could find under the circumstances Thank you. I can’t wait. I am out of town right now, so I won’t get it until next Tuesday or Wednesday, but I am so excited! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2nd-annual-summer-book-exchange/694334.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2nd-annual-summer-book-exchange/694334.md?page=4)