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   morgrace
   Member

   For those of you that swap a lot of books...

   I've gone posted all the books at home that I want to swap, and now am looking at garage sales. What types of books are good to buy - for the sole purpose of swapping them? (Obviously if I find living books I don't have I'll be keeping them.) I'm looking for types of books, not specific titles.  I have scrolled through the "Club Member Wish List" a few times, I guess I'm looking for a quicker way to find this out. Also, some of the books on the wish list are unfamiliar to me and I wonder if I bypass those types of books at garage sales without knowing it. I've thought of offering to buy entire boxes of books at garage sales and just posting everything I buy, but I don't think I really have the storage space for that. Buying something just to swap is completely new to me. 

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   Bookworm
   Member

   Current bestsellers.  Run your eye down the bestseller list every so often and take note of the authors there, and then snag those at sales. 

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   esoloj
   Member

   Kids books.  Popular series titles (for ex. Magic Tree House books)

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   LindseyD.
   Member

   I've had a lot of success w/ Christian books and inspirational books. Authors such as Charles Swindoll, T.D. Jakes, Billy Graham. I've also swapped 3 Christian fiction books, 2 by Francine Rivers and 1 by Joel Rosenberg.

    

    

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   Chantelle
   Member

   I have had a lot of success with craft books like quilting, sewing, decorating, Christmas, etc.  My DH used to work for a company that had a publisher under it which published this type of book.  He was constantly coming home with these types of books b/c I love to look at them.  However, I rarely have time to do anything with them so I started listing on paperbackswap.com and they have moved pretty well.  Within 3 weeks I had 8 credits!  I just redeemed 4 today to get field guides for us to use with 106 Days of Creation for our Nature Walks and Nature Notebook.  I'm so excited!

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   crazy4boys
   Member

   Current political books (like Sarah Palin's), books on the Ambleside book list, current popular kids books, books by Nicholas Sparks, vegetarian or whole foods cookbooks.

   I listed some books on Saturday and now I have 43 to books to wrap and mail.  ARGH!!!!

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   Bookworm
   Member

   Oh, lol!  That's why I only post new ones in small batches!  You need to recruit some little helpers!  Turn those boys loose with a roll of packing tape! 

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   crazy4boys
   Member

   I'm afraid of what would happen if I gave them all rolls of tape.  I don't think the books would see much of it!

   We're in major de-junking mode so I wanted to get these out the door as quickly as possible.  Whatever doesn't get swapped by the end of June is going to Goodwill.  I think I'll turn on a girl movie tonight (Pride and Prejudice, North and South, something like that) and wrap away!

    

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