# recommend a good online book swap site

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-good-online-book-swap-site/530335>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 25, 2010, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-good-online-book-swap-site/530335 "2010-02-25T00:25:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![rainy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@rainy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rainy)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-good-online-book-swap-site/530335/1 "2010-02-25T00:25:10Z")

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Please 🙂

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**Author:** ![LegsAkimbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f1d935/32.png) [@LegsAkimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LegsAkimbo)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-good-online-book-swap-site/530335/2 "2010-02-25T00:35:22Z")

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Don’t know of one, but I’ll swap with you…

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**Author:** ![rainy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@rainy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rainy)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-good-online-book-swap-site/530335/3 "2010-02-25T01:06:52Z")

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> [@LegsAkimbo](#):
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> Don’t know of one, but I’ll swap with you…

Thanks! But it is actually for my MIL. She doesn’t have one she can drive to locally and I was wondering if there was an online place I could occasionally broker some out for her in bulk. She likes romance novels, so that’s what she’d have to trade.

Personally I’ve never met a book I didn’t want to keep. But maybe that’s just the pack rat in me.

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**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-good-online-book-swap-site/530335/4 "2010-02-25T01:13:49Z")

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I’ve been on [www.Paperbackswap.com](http://www.Paperbackswap.com) for a couple of years now, after seeing it plugged in a thread here on the Dope. (Despite the name, they’re not limited to just paperbacks.)

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**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-good-online-book-swap-site/530335/5 "2010-02-25T17:32:30Z")

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I’ve been happy with paperbackswap. There are several similar sites, but I have no inside information about them: swaptree, bookmooch, etc.