Comments on: PaperBackSwap Club

By: Mrs. Accountability

Mrs. Accountability — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:37:10 +0000

Hi Cynthia… ah yes… small children… when mine were little, the only “adult” books I read were parenting books. I attended La Leche League and I went through their entire little library in a couple of years. I learned a lot and I’m really glad that I did it because I really, really needed to learn how to be a good parent since I didn’t get very good modeling from my mom and stepfather. I was DETERMINED to parent differently than I’d been parented, and I knew in order to do that I’d have to read, read, read and read some more. Now on the other hand, I did also read TONS of children’s books to my babies. That is one thing I can credit my mom with giving all of her children a love of reading because she started reading to us when we were little babies. I took my children to the library every single week and we rotated out our stacks of books. I read books every single night… that is another thing I really loved, the peacefulness of reading books aloud to my children while they drifted off to sleep. Sometimes we’d read upwards of ten books a night. I am also a Stephen King fan, have never read anything by Vince Flynn. I’ll check him out. Thanks for visiting and commenting!

By: Cynthia

Cynthia — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:53:20 +0000

I haven’t used any sites like that. I don’t read as much as I’d like to – too busy with small children and a husband who works nights. When I do get a new book to read it’s usually from the library. I’ve pretty much stopped buying books altogether, unless its childrens books. We only have a small number of books in our house and we intend on keeping those. Most are hardcover Stephen King and Vince Flynn books and the like so I don’t have anything to swap even if I wanted to!

By: Mrs. Accountability

Mrs. Accountability — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:06:06 +0000

Hi Megan, so does it cost anything extra to use the PBS shipping labels? It’s around $.50 to use the PaperBackSwap label. I can see that it would be a lot easier to just print out a label! I’m glad to hear you have had such a nice experience with the book swapping. Thanks for visiting and commenting!

By: Megan

Megan — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:41:43 +0000

I use PBS and Bookmooch. I’ve used them for years and absolutely love the site. While I can’t say it’s great for getting rid of clutter, it’s a great way to take books you’re not reading and get other books in exchange. I use their PBS shipping labels to get automatic credit for my shipments. Plus it’s easy.