Saves trees... use Online Book Rental
by Michael Smith
BookSwim is the first online book rental library service lending you paperbacks and hardcovers, Netflix®-style, directly to your house, without the need to purchase! Whether it's new releases, bestsellers, or classics, we have something for everyone, with free shipping both ways! Read your books as long as you want – no late fees! Even choose to purchase and keep the titles you love!
Now there is an environmentally friendly – or a more environmentally friendly – way of dealing with one's addiction to reading and books. This may be, aside from e-books, especially those in PDF that one can then print out if one so desires, a way to go for those of us who love reading but hate to have to buy all the books and then, once we have bought and read them have to deal with them afterwards.
While we all like to keep this book or that after we have read it for the “just in case we want to read it again” there are masses more books that we buy to read that we hardly will ever have a need or desire to read again. So, what do with them then. Because we have bought them and often paid good moment for them we are very reluctant often to dispense with them and throw them out, even if to a charity shop to be sold on to others and there are only that many friends and relations that you can otherwise pass them onto. With a service such a BookSwim this is all eliminated.
From an environmental standpoint dead tree books are not something that often is promoted and everyone is on about e-books nowadays, and I am even looking of producing e-books from the Green (Living) Review, the occasional sort-of annual “Best of Green Living”, in PDF, which is the best format for e-books, in my opinion, I still find reading on screen difficult for more than a few pages or so. Hence I still prefer to have books printed, even if printed from a PDF via my printer at home. It makes reading still a nicer experience. I certainly would not even try to read novels on screen. It just is not the same as a book, whether hardback or paperback.
BookSwim gives those of us who want to read books and may even want to keep the occasional book that we particularly like a chance to do just that without having to travel to the local lending library and without the danger of incurring late fees should we forget about the book for a while or such.
Yes, I know, that in most libraries, public lending ones, you can borrow books for free but... and the but is the inconvenience of having to travel to the library if you happen to live, say, in the boonies and then, as said, if you run late, forget about the book for a while, or whatever, you incur late fees and they can mount up if you cannot get to the library for some reason to return the book(s). In addition to that the books are not, necessarily, the latest offerings that are available at the local library and also, you cannot, if you like the book, purchase it. With BookSwim, on the other hand, you can.
© M Smith (Veshengro), November 2008
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