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The library is a wonderful

Urbanfrugal — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:49:46 -0500

The library is a wonderful place to borrow books, and recorded material. In essence you have already paid for them via tax dollars.

If you live in a large building or work in an office building, there may be opportunities to exchange books with neighbors or coworkers. In my building, people leave magazines they have read near the mailboxes and anyone who wants the magazine may take it.

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Freecycling

greenlagirl — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 19:52:24 -0500

Freecycle's great for books in general, though if you're a grad student, you may find it tough to get takers for the books of obscure theory you're trying to get rid of :P I did, however, meet another grad student via freecycle and swapped books :)

Virginia -- 12 books a month is a lot!

Happy reading everyone --

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Great list, Siel!

Birdie Jaworski — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 09:05:27 -0500

I got a whole box of gorgeous art books through freecycle last week.

I am such a slow reader. To finish one book in a month is about my limit - I admire everyone able to accomplish more reading.

Birdie
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Me, too

Virginia DeBolt — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 08:53:21 -0500

I only read about 12 books a month. I get many of them by doing all those things you suggest. I buy used books online. I love to leave books behind for strangers to read when I travel.

I also write books that I fervently hope people will go to a bookstore and buy. I buy web design books by the carload myself, so my shelves overflow with books that have no value donated to the library or Goodwill.

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Library!

Denise — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 05:43:03 -0500

I love my library! It's the best "green thing"! Great list of ideas! (I like freecycling books better than the release program at bookcrossing - though releasing into the wild is fun, it's probably not reliably green.)

~Denise
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Eco-friendly reading

greenlagirl — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 02:00:30 -0500

[image by Brian]

In June I read a book a day and blogged advice for enviro-friendly reading. To cap things off: The green reading tips, compiled --

Go paperless
- with free online books.

Borrow
- from your own bookshelf.
- from the library (via eco-friendly travel).
- from friends.
- from bookstores, via surreptitious reading.

Buy used
- at local used bookstores.
- online via half.com or other resellers.

Support
- green publishers.
- local independent bookstores.
- small presses.

Exchange
- by throwing a book exchange party -- I did :)
- by joining BookCrossing locally.
- by swapping books online.

Sell used books
- to local 2nd hand bookstores.
- online to half.com or other 2nd hand sites.

Share
- by lending books to friends.
- by freecycling them.
- by donating them to your library or local Goodwill.
- by giving them away on your blog.

Create
- a green book club
- book art.

Also, some tips on how you too could read 30 books in 30 days --

[image by Brian]

BlogHer Contributing Editor Siel also blogs at greenLAgirl.com.