'No More Buying Books Until I've Read the Ones I've Already Bought' Thread

Gem-gem

Friend at work gave me three Phillipa Gregory books. 2 that I hadn't got. Passed the 3rd one onto someone else - with all these book swaps I won't have to buy another book for a very long time!!!!

Bubblesmum

Morning all

Feeling rather guilty this morning

Have not read my books this week rather caught up with a debt free diary thread this week :T

However got the Happiness Project on Kindle.... Which I've found a great and interesting read so far.

Took my kindle to London but the battery was flat :mad:

Ended up buying two books ( one work ) and one about the Anglican Faith :eek: to my book pile

Also couldn't resist The Time Keeper in the library too.... Oh dear

Think I need to get started....

renifer7

Happygreen wrote: »

Island.girl, If you join any of those groups below in your region and offer them there they will be gone like hot cakes and you don't even have to take them anywhere! Or if you have the time you can sell them on amazon ?

http://uk.freecycle.org/region/London

http://www.ilovefreegle.org/groups/london

Or release a few as bookcrossing books? www.bookcrossing.com I don't know all the active shelves in London, I know there's quite a big one in Waterloo.

Happygreen

renifer7 wrote: »

Or release a few as bookcrossing books? www.bookcrossing.com I don't know all the active shelves in London, I know there's quite a big one in Waterloo.

Wow, that is still going? I remember when it started off but never heard about it again.

Island.girl

renifer7 wrote: »

Or release a few as bookcrossing books? www.bookcrossing.com I don't know all the active shelves in London, I know there's quite a big one in Waterloo.

I shall definitely look into it. Thanks

Gem-gem

Lent one book and gave two to a friend today - that's two more off my shelf. Enjoying Wives and lovers still.
What is book crossing. Com?

renifer7

Bookcrossing was originally the idea of assigning ID numbers to books and leaving ("releasing") books in random places - the person who found the book ideally left a journal entry for it online (as a registered user or anonymously) and so you could track the book's journey. There are organised forms of bookcrossing as well where people send a book on or swap books at meetings etc. You can have a look at the site's forum, but basically it's all around sharing and exchanging books - for free I have read a ton of books thanks to bookcrossing which I might have otherwise not even heard of

Gem-gem

Thank you Renifer. Sounds like a great way to get free books.

renifer7

Gem-gem wrote: »

Thank you Renifer. Sounds like a great way to get free books.

Not only that, but you get to meet a lot of very kind and generous people on the way!

This is the official shelf that I know of in London: http://www.bookcrossing.com/hunt/3/1558/150864/451804

Happygreen

Thanks for the recommendation on here - I just finished "Gone girl". Interesting twist but I had wished for a different ending somehow...
Good read!