Family Go Green, Inc.

I personally ran into an issue with what do with all my books. I am an avid reader, typically read multiple books per week. These are sometimes library books, but more and more our local library has been unable to purchase newer books due to financing issues so we have been buying them. However, I don’t want to keep ALL my books just my favorites, so I was gifting them or loaning them to whomever wanted to read them.

However I was ending up with way too many.  While I do donate books, I wanted to find a solution that would give me some benefit too. I found this and am now a true addict. Paperbackswap is the place to fix both problems.

Paperback Swap

When you sign up with paperback swap- if you list 10 books for “Swap” you get 2 free “credits”. With these credits you can order 2 free books. When someone selects to order one of your books- you ship it out  “Media Mail”  which is the cheapest mailing available.  You have two options then for how your receive credit for mailing it. If you ship in their system you get instant book credits to order more. If you ship with stamps or at the post office you get credit when the receiver marks it received. So every book you mail out you get credit for a new one to order. It’s that simple.

We started using this site December 21, 2009. To date we have saved over $100 in purchase costs, we have swapped over twenty times, and our books going to and away from us have traveled over twenty thousand miles.

We are only buying urgently wanted books, the rest we just added to our “wishlist” on PBS and we will wait it out.

We choose to keep our very favorite books and our homeschooling books but the rest is read and relisted immediately. Our kids even got in the game and have their books up too!

We are “Familygogreen” on there feel free to use our referral or add us to your buddy list- we love sharing between families!