You could instead mix it with geocaching to eliminate shipping fees :) Call it a distributed library. "hunting" for books could become a literal exercise. Jeremy On Thursday 20 December 2007 10:21:22 am Chad Walstrom wrote: > Dave, I hate to step on your idea, but it's already been done in two > different formats. The first is called BookMooch and the site can be > found at http://bookmooch.com/. This is a book exchange site where you > catalog the books you're willing to share. You receive points for books > you send, and spend points to receive books. The _sender_ of the book > pays shipping, which kind of sucks if you send out of country. They > compensate by giving 3 points to the sender, and the receiver only > requires 2 points to spend. It's actually a pretty cool system. > > The second site is called BookCrossing, the site is at > http://bookcrossing.com. This book exchange site promotes the idea of > tagging books (like wildlife animals) with an ID and then "releasing" > the books "in the wild". You don't get points, and it doesn't cost you > anything to participate. You then "hunt" for books you find off the > list of those released. I almost equate it to a pseudo-acceptable way > to throw your books away at local coffee shops and laundrymats. What > you don't get is that direct person-to-person exchange of books. > > Yours would be the third type of site, which is a membership fee, free > shipping paradigm. Might work. *shrug* Good luck! > > Chad > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list