[Tasl] BookMooch is a community for exchanging used books

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Find books for your students, for school libraries, and for yourself on this wonderful free book exchange website. Let students take part in the book exchange. They'll learn how to do a database search for books, and they'll learn to appreciate the value of a non-commercial exchange site where people are excited about reading, for the sake and enjoyment of it. The book exchange includes a wide selection of fiction and nonfiction, for children and adults. Here are the details:

BookMooch is a community for exchanging used books

http://bookmooch.com/languages

BookMooch lets you give away books you no longer need in exchange for books you really want.

+ Give & receive: 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, as you wish.

+ No cost: there is no cost to join or use this web site: your only cost is mailing your books to others.

+ Points for entering books: you receive a tenth-of-a-point for every book you type into our system, and one point each time you give a book away. In order to keep receiving books, you need to give away at least one book for every five you receive.

+ Help charities: you can also give your points to charities we 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 us to thank us for running this web site .

+ World wide: You can request books from other countries, in other languages. You receive 3 points when you send a book out of your country, to help compensate you for the greater mailing cost, but it only costs the moocher 2 points to get the book. John Buckman, who runs BookMooch, has lived in California, England, France and Germany, and was frustrated by the vast number of books that were printed in just one country and not available in the other countries (for example, many books are published in Britain and never made available in America).

+ Why create this?: if you're passionate about books, you know how emotionally difficult it is to throw a book away, even if you will never read it again. You want to find a good home for your books, have them find someone who appreciates them. Also, you may be interested in trying a lot of books out, and keep the ones that are great. It's a great crime to have a book disappear, out of print, for none to read. BookMooch keeps books in circulation, and finds new readers for them. If you're interested in getting free books, you can donate to charities, the points you gain by giving your books away. 

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You are what your deep, driving desire is. 
As your desire is, so is your will. 
As your will is, so is your deed. 
As your deed is, so is your destiny. 

-Brihadaranyaka Upanishad IV.4.51