Comments on: Free BookMooch service puts novel spin on books

BookMooch could have the inventory equivalent of the book-industry's largest wholesaler. Where's all that stuff? In your house.

[basraw]

Yuck

how many bed bugs will be transferred in books to unsuspecting people?

[katskat]

Sheeze!

People amaze me. Who in the world would take a neat service allowing the exchange of books and think of bedbugs and only bedbugs. Sounds like the voice of experience and I would say you have two options:
1. Spray the books with bug spray at the mailbox prior to bringing them into your home

or

2. Don't 'mooch' any books.

Grow up.

[BrodieB]

Bookmooch is great!

I have been a Bookmooch member since the start and it is such a great service! There are all kinds of books and the community is very nice and friendly. I have gotten more than 80 books and given away more than 75 and all have been great transactions (and no bed bugs yet!).

If you read as much as I do Bookmooch is a no brainer.

[eanstuff]

BookMooch is a knock off!

If you are going to write a story making a guy sound like he invented the wheel, you should make sure to see if his wheel is original!

PaperBackSwap.com (PBS) is nearly twice as old as BookMooch (BM) and has 4+ times the numbers.

"BookMooch members have swapped as many as 700,000 books"
Paperbackswap - Books traded: 2,697,077

"BM most-traded books...Memory Keeper's Daughter...780 times...The Kite Runner...585 times"
PBS - Memory Keeper's Daughter requested 2,745 times - The Kite Runner - 2,765 times

"BookMooch now has an inventory of about 480,000 books"
PBS books currently available: 2,074,801

If you want to write a story on a really big book swapping site, check out www.paperbackswap.com

And to the person that commented about bedbugs. Who keeps their bedbugs in their books? You are weird!

[pallbear]

Bookmooch Not the First

I don't think the point was supposed to be that Bookmooch was
the first anymore than an iPod was the first MP3 player. I think the
point was that they are making money doing this due to the
Amazon tie-in.