A while ago my friend Kimmy recommended this site but I let it go in one ear and out the other as I had plenty of library books accumulating as it was. Then today I was looking at all my books, which I recently purged before moving across town (kid lost his out of district voucher....so we went right ahead and moved in district when I asked him "so, do you want to change schools or do you want to change apartments"....guess what he chose?), and wondering why in the hell I can't get rid of such things like my old copy of Wonderland Avenue,that the fellow who is now my kids Godfather gave me way back when I was 16 and we were a year away from even dating and kicking off a lifelong commitment of love/hate and stinging barbs that punctuate random favors, holiday gifts and coffee deliveries. I will probably always keep my copy of Baby Driver by Jan Kerouac (yep. Jack's kid, now deceased), that I read at the tender age of 14 after finding it on a red letter day during an otherwise depressing time of my life living yet again in Beaufort, SC while stopping in a book warehouse in Hilton Head full of out of print books (it is now back in print, & other books I scored that day were Neon Angel by Cherie Currie of the Runaways and The Works by Rolling Stone Ron Wood, which was an entertaining tour of his art work and amusing stories from the road). But I can find absolutly no reason why I am hording such beat up dark adolescent gems such as No One Here Gets Out Alive, Helter Skelter and VC Andrew's Heaven (the latter being the original copy I read when I was 11 years old and responsable for a for kicking off a fixation of all the original books by that author, who as a result deserves a huge honorable mention in my education of sex thanks to her rampant incest and other taboo themes, which were written about pretty graphically and at that time were The Most Fascinating Things I Have Ever Read About).
So today I was toying with the idea of posting some of my less seedy and more collector's edition-type hardcovers on ebay, which I do not have an account for but was thinking about setting up. Of course I posted about it on facebook. My friend Helen commented and recommended the exact same site Kimmy had mentioned. So I checked it out and the next thing I knew I was listing 10 books I cared very little about for 2 credits. That's 2 new-to-me books I can bring in the house to add to our piles of books and other assorted collections of crap! wow! I will say Helen mentioned she actually gives hers away on the site and acquires credits to use whenever, which will be awesome if I have that kind of self control instead of going nuts and just impulsiveley clicking on anything that grabs me int he moment.
One thing I really like about this site is that I have noticed that, unlike most everything else today....IT DOES NOT ASK FOR A CREDIT CARD! I refuse to play the plastic game, and if you're really lucky that rant will come another day in another post on this blog. The only payment involved is the shipping cost that you pay when sending a free book to someone who has requested a title you have listed, which in turn you get a credit (one book) back for. & like I mentioned above you get 2 credits to start without even waiting for someone to request your titles.
www.paperbackswap.com
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