Website: Book Mooch

Okay, so I have to credit Boing Boing with finding this one first (and probably causing the homepage to crash), but this website is truly excellent, so I need to share it.

BookMooch is a book trading site. It works as follows:

• Give or receive books: Every time you give someone a book, you earn a point and can get any book you want from anyone else at BookMooch. Once you've read a book, you can keep it forever or put it back into BookMooch for someone else.


• No cost: It's FREE. The only cost to you is what you spend to mail your books to someone.
  


• Points for adding books: you receive 1/10th of a point for every book you type into the system, and one point each time you give a book away. Note: to keep receiving books, you need to give away at least one book for every two you receive.


• Help charities: you can also give your points to charities they work with, such as children's hospitals (so a sick kid can get a free book delivered to their bed), Library fund, African literacy, or to the site to thank them for running the web site .