My wife loves to read, so I just Skyped her about Book Mooch which is a site dedicated to reading and sharing used books. For every book you send (you must pay the postage) someone else you get a point and for every book you receive you lose a point.

Bookmooch makes money from sales via Amazon if people decide to buy the books from Amazon instead of wait for somebody else to fulfill the wish. You receive a tenth of a point for entering in a new book to the site, so for every 10 books you type into the system, you get a point. You must give away one book for every two you receive to continue receiving books. This, I imagine, helps keep the quality of the books higher in the database.

I thought this might be a cool way for her to find other books to read from others and share the books we have purchased.

I love to read too but have traded most of my reading for pleasure time for reading RSS time. Being that I’ve been reading and writing all of today (or so it seems, I haven’t even taken a lunch break and it’s 4:55pm PST) and my reader has actually increased in number of posts (nearly 6,000 now), I probably won’t be using Book Mooch any time soon. I might have to up my “caught up with reading” prediction to later than 1-2 days.

I’ll ask my wife to write about her experience if/when she decides to try Book Mooch out. Any readers used Book Mooch or a similar online service?

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