Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Has anyone tried Bookswim?





A co-worker was admiring my kindle, and we got to talking about books. She mentioned she uses Bookswim. It's like Netflix for books. They have a couple of different tiers, you can do three books at a time or more depending on how much you want to pay per month. She said she likes it because our library doesn't stock a lot of what she reads (I didn't ask but once I started thinking about it it made me curious). She said she likes it because she's not buying tons of books and having to worry about what to do with them once she's done.


I looked at their selections and they seem to have a lot of popular authors. I think it would be money saving, but if I ran across a "keeper" then I'd have to go buy it anyway. I'd have to figure out what I spend a month on books and how fast I read, I guess...


Has anyone else heard of this? Have you tried it?

7 comments:

  1. What an interesting idea! I hadn't heard of it before... but I have a really, really good library system... plus I'm reading so many things that are only available in ebook...

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  2. I've used Bookswim for a couple of months and love it. I get my longer, harder reads through them so I don't have to worry about due dates. I'm on the 5 at a time plan.

    If you decide you want to keep the book, they have the keep it prices on the invoice you receive with each shipment of books.

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  3. Sounds like a really great idea for people who live in small towns or out in the boonies with no library services or no bookstores. I live in a huge city and get most anything I want at the library so I can't imagine it would be much good (plus I only read e-books now) but I can see that if I lived where I grew up I'd be on that in a New York minute. (Not that it's likely available in Canada. Noooooo.)

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  4. Now that sounds like something to get into!! Lemme know if you do it and how it works, I may have to jump on that bandwagon.

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  5. I've never heard of bookswim but I like the sound of Netflix for books.

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  6. I don't use Bookswim but I do use Booksfree and I'm on the 4 at a time plan and I love it.

    I get to try out books that I wanted to read before I buy it and as soon as I send back the books I get, the next books on my list come immediately. It takes a little longer than a day to get the books but I don't mind the wait because there's no due date, no late fees so it's a definite treat for readers on a budget. Gotta love it!

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  7. I have not tried it but a friend of mine loves it.

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