Heck, I have fifteen books listed so far and not one of them was reserved or has been requested yet. So I would consider a few reserves already to mean you were reading some pretty good/or at least popular stuff. 
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Heck, I have fifteen books listed so far and not one of them was reserved or has been requested yet. So I would consider a few reserves already to mean you were reading some pretty good/or at least popular stuff. 
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Heh. I’ve sold two from my list so far:
- The old version of “On Food and Cooking” by Harold McGee (I bought the new version a few months ago)
- “Postcards from the Pug Bus” - a badly written book of pug stories.
So much for “good” or “popular”!
I posted 10 yesterday and 8 have been reserved. I mailed out three today and confirmed with the post office that the postage listed on the printable mailers was correct. (I was a bit concerned about the condition of few of the books I wanted to list and not sure if they were up to PBS’s standards so I just held those ones back and gave them away on my journal.)
So far so good! My husband was thrilled I was getting rid of some of my books. Little does he know…
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So far so good! My husband was thrilled I was getting rid of some of my books. Little does he know…
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I told my husband this as well, because eventually I’m going to lose my library and will need to downsize quite a bit in the book department.
That’s why I do box-o-books on the site. Sometimes I give people awesome deals of 10 books for 1 credit. This results in getting rid of some of my books without adding too much to my collection. (I got rid of 70+ Destroyer paperbacks in one fell swoop through box-o-books–there was no way I wanted to wait for them to slowly trickle away when I was never going to read them again.)
Now I have a bunch of credits and have to carefully choose how to use them so that I am still meeting my ultimate goal of less books.
ETA: This thread reminded me to list some more books over the weekend and I got rid of 15 more!
Man, that Book Bazzar forum on there is like heaven.
Check it out if you haven’t already.
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Interesting. May I ask how long you’ve been with them?
I had a bad experience with bookmooch.com and was looking for an alternative.
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Dunno if you’re still keeping up with this thread, Sleeps With Butterflies, but I was wondering what your bad Bookmooch experience was. I’ve been using Bookmooch for several months now and it has gone pretty smoothly. I may have to check out paperbackswap, though!