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i propose this. it's like a secret santa, only it's book based. lots of people sign up and agree to swap one book. each person has a different person to send to (hope this makes sense) and each person sends out one book. the rules are thus: it must be a second hand paperback which you have read and enjoyed, but don't necessarily wish to keep. price limit £3 for the book, postage will be minimal.

we send the books, recieve the books, read and discuss... whatcha think?

What a great idea, I do book crossing but its a bit hit and miss, this a great way of reading new books
Count me in please,
Becks

What an interesting idea. We wouldn't have any idea what book we were going to get?

If I chose books for myself they tend to always be crime novels. So it would be good for me to try something different for a change.

Count me in please.

Cheers
Zoe

Yes please Mrsfibble, sounds a great idea! I mostly read American thrillers, but happy to try anything. pbf

right, anybody know how i get this going then?! cos although i had the idea i'm not sure how to proceed lol!

Count me in...but I've no idea how to go about it!

Would be prepared to send abroad too, btw

MW

Perhaps give it a week see who wants in then give notice of a posting day so everyone can be ready, then pm a name to the next person on the list , so that everyone has someone to send to and then say "go" all post on same day hopefully receive soon after and read, a bit like secret santa. Is that the sort of thing?
HTH

thanks becks, that makes a lot of sense. yes, much like secret santa. ok i'll give it a fortnight from today... if you hear nothing, someone pm me cos you KNOW i have a terrible memory.

I do like this idea but the problem is I'm a picky reader.

I'll read pretty much anything non-fiction (especially history) but when it comes to fiction I'm speculative fiction all the way (with the occassional agatha christie) but a lot of people hate spec fic. It'd be a shame if I sent someone a book and they hated it or if they sent me a book and I hated it. I think any book swap system would need genre control.

That is you'd ask participants about their tastes and try to pair them with suitable people.

Also duplication would be a problem - what if I send someone a book they already have or visa versa?

I'm sure there are ways round these problems but I thought they needed mentioning.

Becky